28 Reasons That ‘Twilight’ the Movie Is Better Than ‘Twilight’ the Book
The movie's more exciting, more fun, and way less annoying than Stephenie Meyer's gazillion-selling blockbuster.
Posted 11/19/08 in Vulture
Literature
If You Know Only One Thing About V.S. Naipaul, It Should Be This
The 'Times' review of a new Naipual biography includes a few great anecdotes about him, but they're all trumped by this one.
Posted 11/19/08 in Vulture
The Comics Page
Exclusive Manga Excerpt: Take a Weird Ride With Yuichi Yokoyama’s ‘Travel’
A book of great beauty and mystery, and the closest you're probably going to come to an acid trip all day.
Posted 11/18/08 in Vulture
Ranters and Ravers
Thin-Slicing Malcolm Gladwell’s Critics
Every critic wants to be Malcolm Gladwell. We thin-slice his critics into the following categories: Prigs, Wannabes, Accountants, and Haters.
Did ‘Twilight’ Star Robert Pattinson Know What He Was Signing Up For?
'I just don't want to get stabbed or something.'
Maeve Binchy on ‘The Hard Core’ and Her Uplifting Next Novel About Heart Failure
Binchy raps to Vulture about how she got her writing start from a kibbutz and taking the money and running.
Natasha Wimmer on Translating Bolaño’s ‘2666’
We asked Alan Page, translator of the screenplays '21 Grams' and 'Babel,' to find out how Wimmer did it.
Inside the Mind of the Teenage Girl With Amy Goldwasser
Goldwasser sifted through more than 800 personal essays to find the 58 authors included in 'Red: Teenage Girls in American Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today.'
Culture Critic Ken Tucker on the Enduring, Inexplicable Influence of ‘Scarface’
We talk to critic Ken Tucker about the 'great shallow masterpiece' 'Scarface' — and why Brian De Palma won't allow a new hip-hop soundtrack.
Posted 11/11/08 in Vulture
The Comics Page
Veterans Day Special: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From WWII Memoir ‘Alan’s War’
A funny and thoughtful graphic memoir of World War II, told through G.I. Alan Cope's warm voice and Emmanuel Guibert's beautiful artwork.
Director Deepa Mehta on ‘Heaven on Earth,’ Adapting Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children,’ and the X-Men
Mehta spoke to Vulture from Toronto about Bollywood, Hollywood, magical realism, and the X-Men.
Posted 11/07/08 in Vulture
Bolanopalooza
Read an Excerpt From Roberto Bolaño’s New Poetry Collection
If you want a Bolaño book that’s not going to tip your car over, 'The Romantic Dogs' has you covered.
Posted 11/07/08 in Vulture
Bolanopalooza
Essential Bolaño: The Five Most Unskippable Passages in ‘2666’
If you’re thinking of quitting, try one of these first. It might inspire you to settle in and read the rest.
Posted 11/07/08 in Vulture
Bolanopalooza
Why Big Books Still Matter
Is Roberto Bolaño's masterpiece, '2666,' really any more difficult than two seasons of 'Mad Men'?
Posted 11/07/08 in Vulture
Bolanopalooza
Roberto Bolaño’s Five-Page Sentence: Read It Here First!
Read it for Bolaño’s obvious improvisational delight in keeping the sentence afloat, phrase by phrase — a skill the critic James Wood once compared to 'someone punting a leaf.'
Michael Crichton Dies at 66
Crichton unexpectedly died in Los Angeles yesterday after a 'courageous and private battle against cancer,' according to a family spokesperson.
Posted 11/05/08 in Vulture
The Comics Page
Hot Lava and Cool Artwork: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Don Wood’s ‘Into the Volcano’
Caldecott winner Don Wood's first graphic novel is a gripping, gorgeously drawn adventure story.
‘Watchmen’ Illustrator Dave Gibbons on His New Book, the ‘Watchmen’ Movie, and Why You Won’t Even Notice That Doctor Manhattan Is Naked
'You're not looking really at a naked man; you're looking at a model of a naked man. I know that's a rather fine distinction.'
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