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  ‘I Had a Deep Understanding of Misogyny’: Emily Ratajkowski Discusses Divorce With Novelist Sarah Manguso

  VOGUE.COM - By Thessaly La Force

  Is divorce the new marriage plot? In Sarah Manguso’s latest novel, Liars, Jane meets John. She is a writer, he is an artist, both with serious ambitions. They marry, have a child. But while Jane’s writing career succeeds, John’s artistic dreams fizzle. John eventually becomes the breadwinner for the …

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  “I Want People to Feast”: In Casey McQuiston’s Latest Novel, ‘The Pairing,’ Queer-Ex Drama Meets European Decadence

  VOGUE.COM - By Emma Specter

  Casey McQuiston has made a name for themself crafting unforgettable queer love stories: the prince-meets-president’s-kid romance of their 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue was followed by a time-traveling lesbian subway affair in 2021’s One Last Stop, and then a foray into young-adult literature …

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  So Long Francine Pascal, the Woman Whose Books I Did Judge by Their Covers

  VOGUE.COM - By Fiorella Valdesolo

  I was not blonde. I didn’t have petite, doll-like features. Pastels didn’t dominate my wardrobe, and I most certainly did not have boys constantly angling for my attention. Which is all to say that my adolescent years didn’t remotely mirror the ones portrayed in Sweet Valley High, the best-selling …

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  Roger Federer on the Two Years That Changed Him, Keeping Tabs on Rafa, and His Fascinating New Book

  VOGUE.COM - By Corey Seymour

  When the days leading up to your retirement are chronicled in their own gripping and emotional documentary, it’s safe to say you belong to the realm of legend. Such, of course, is the case with Roger Federer, the subject of the recent Amazon film Federer: 12 Final Days. After famously leaving …

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  ‘We Just Never Said No’: Niko Stratis and Tuck Woodstock on Turning Their Award-Winning Zine Into a Press Centering Trans Voices

  VOGUE.COM - By Emma Specter

  We may seem to be in a golden age of trans books, with novels like Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater earning mainstream acclaim—but the reality of trans inclusion in media and publishing is considerably more fraught. Many trans writers still struggle to get published …

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  The Best Books of 2024 So Far

  VOGUE.COM - By Chloe Schama, Taylor Antrim, Marley Marius, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Chloe Malle, Laia Garcia-Furtado, Corey Seymour, Hannah Jackson, and Ian Malone

  We like to think of this list of the best books of 2024 as the anti-algorithm, a collection of highly specific, highly individual, and eclectic works that have piqued our interest, offered a romp, or genuinely moved us. At a moment when the act of curation threatens to be overwhelmed by whatever …