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Dec 11, 2024 | vulture.com | Maddie Crum |Julie Kosin |Genevieve Koski

The best TV performances of the year, including Marisa Abela in ‘Industry’ and Anna Sawai in ‘Shōgun,’ found fresh depths in returning characters or introduced us to new ones with confidence and style.

Jun 4, 2024 | vulture.com | Maris Kreizman |Emma Alpern |Maddie Crum |Tope Folarin

best of 2024 The novels and nonfiction that offered unique robotproof perspectives. It has been a rough year for makers of original media, with the increasing use of generative AI threatening the livelihood of writers, editors, and artists of all kinds as well as the intelligence of readers.

Apr 3, 2024 | vulture.com | Emma Alpern |Maddie Crum |Tope Folarin |Emily Gould

This list is updated monthly with new “best of the year” worthy titles. The year may still be young, but 2024 has already brought a treasure trove of surprising new books. Multiple celebrated first-time authors have returned with highly anticipated, ambitious follow-up novels. Memoir and reportage are skillfully blended together for a collection of essays on the climate crises. A former Village Voice journalist delivers a vibrant oral history of the beloved alternative weekly.

Mar 11, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Maddie Crum

“Eight two-minute rounds, with time-outs and pauses between rounds, is barely enough time for anything at all to happen,” writes Rita Bullwinkel in her first novel, “Headshot.” Yet, her book is framed within those confines: as a set of matches between eight American teens competing in Reno, Nev., to win the Women’s Youth Boxing Association title.

Nov 21, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Maddie Crum

CommentSaveLexi Freiman has the qualities of a great comic writer: She’s deeply skeptical, sparing no one, including herself; she doesn’t ruminate at the expense of good timing; and most of all, she understands that the spirit of comedy, like the spirit of art, is risk, that a joke is a leap, and that an uncertain landing is what makes it pleasurable, rousing, even deep.