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Emma Alpern

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Emma Alpern is a senior copy editor at New York. She writes about culture and food.

  1. best of 2024
    The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)A sizzling, propulsive new novel from Miranda July, the introspective follow-up to There There, and a debut novel with a killer hook.
  2. book review
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner Overcooks ItA wealthy Jewish family gets the Succession treatment in the writer’s hectic second novel.
  3. summer preview 2024
    22 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerBooks that will transport you from the beach to a road trip with messy friends or a Round Table with Arthur’s knights.
  4. books
    PEN America Writers Threw Their Own Party“Some of the people who have withdrawn are, for example, debut novelists. It’s quite a big sacrifice to turn it down — and yet they have.”
  5. book review
    Claire Messud Writes Novels for a Different CenturyThis Strange Eventful History is the kind of generation-spanning family story that doesn’t really get published anymore. Does it still work?
  6. roll the laserdisc
    J.B. Smoove Had Curb’s Last Best JokeTurns out Seinfeld wasn’t a show about nothing.
  7. chat room
    Everybody Wants Curb’s Susie Essman to Yell at Them“Larry saves me for himself.”
  8. book review
    In Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange Writes a New Secret HistoryThe author’s second novel, after the dazzling There There, follows family members who are inheriting more than they know.
  9. scene report
    Midnight MaasInside the after-hours release party where otters, Swifties, and recovering Bookstagrammers celebrated Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow.
  10. best of 2023
    The Best Books of 2023Ten authors whose original ideas challenged our preconceived notions of the world.
  11. encounter
    In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be WrongHer novel The Book of Ayn is about a newly canceled person in a toxic relationship with her ego.
  12. book review
    In Alex Pheby’s Novel Malarkoi, God Is Dead and Objects Are AliveThe second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy Cities of the Weft spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.
  13. fall preview 2023
    In Mona Awad’s Novels, Beauty Comes With a Side of Body HorrorHer latest novel, Rouge, shows how the quest for perfection can send you over the edge.
  14. encounter
    Andrew Lipstein Tries To Be GoodIn his novel The Vegan, he imagines a finance guy desperate to atone — and not for the sins you’d think.
  15. vulture lists
    18 New Beach Reads for Every Kind of Book LoverBooks so good you’ll forget to reapply sunscreen.
  16. book review
    Catherine Lacey’s Alternate America in Biography of XA “biography” with a warped sense of history.
  17. vulture lists
    The Best Books of 2022Yes, this list features more than one book set in a postapocalyptic world, but have you looked around lately?