Holy Noldor, a Brand-New J.R.R. Tolkien Book Is Getting Released This Year

Good guy J.R.R. Tolkien, still delighting us with his words at the ripe age of … crunches the numbers … 126. Thanks to the editing prowess of the author’s son, Christopher, this summer brings The Fall of Gondolin, written by Tolkien while he was hospitalized after the Battle of the

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AHS Season 8 Will Take Place 18 Months in the Future, Which Is Probably As Scary As the Present

After tackling our very scary near past by depicting the 2016 election in season seven, American Horror Story is moving ahead to our probably still pretty scary near future. Speaking at an Emmy panel, creator Ryan Murphy revealed that the next season will take place “18 months from today,” which

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Roseanne’s Lecy Goranson on How She Feels About Trump and Returning to the Show for the Second Time

While all of the original cast of Roseanne is back for the blockbuster revival, only Lecy Goranson, who originated the role of Roseanne Conner’s oldest daughter, Becky, has the distinction of returning to the show for the second time. Goranson played Becky for the first five seasons of the show

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What’s With All the Dead Horses?

The article below spoils a bunch of movies. We aren’t going to tell you which movies, because that in and of itself would be a spoiler.Writer-director Cory Finley isn’t exactly sure why he decided to kill a horse in his debut feature Thoroughbreds, but equine murder was there from draft

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Why Roseanne Can’t Be Reduced to a Single Episode

There have been many sweeping pronouncements about the new revival of Roseanne in the last two weeks. It is either the first real pro-Trumpian show ever made, or it normalizes him, or it’s finally a series that will bring conservative women out of the closet, or it is a morally

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Vulture’s 60-Second News Hour is Now the Second-Best Use for Alexa

Alexa owners, we’ve heard your requests (even if you didn’t actually intend for us to), and are happy to oblige: Vulture news is now available in audio form. Each day you can enjoy an overview of the biggest, strangest, and most amusing entertainment stories via our flash briefing, Vulture’s 60-Second

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The Perfect Nanny Author on the Dark Side of Motherhood

The Perfect Nanny is a book that haunts you long after you’ve put it down. Beginning with the stark sentence “The baby is dead,” French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani’s domestic horror story concerns a Parisian couple named Paul and Myriam who hire a nanny named Louise to care for their two

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Junot Díaz Pens Essay About Childhood Sexual Abuse

In an essay for The New Yorker, award-winning author Junot Díaz describes how he was raped at 8 years old and how that abuse had haunted him throughout his life. “It fucked up my childhood. It fucked up my adolescence. It fucked up my whole life,” Díaz writes. “More than

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