In one week, Taylor Swift’s seventh album, Lover, will be released. (The day immediately after Leo season ends, for those keeping score at home.) She released the album’s title track as her fourth advanced single last night, and followed that up today by showing off the 14 other song names on Lover. She also apparently followed Ariana Grande’s lead and decided to make her new album promos illegible, while taking her own route and making words invisible instead of putting them (maddeningly) upside down.

You might say the movie is about Beau’s journey back home, but really, there isn’t much of a journey. Photo: A24 Photo: A24 This piece was originally published in April. We are recirculating it now that Beau Is Afraid is available on digital. Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Beau Is Afraid. Regardless of whether you think it’s a masterpiece or a career-ending crime against cinema, Beau Is Afraid will leave you with a lot of questions.

Adelaide escaping yet another run-in with the Shadows. Jordan Peele has a real gift for parting shots. Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris surviving at the end of Get Out, the flashing lights of law enforcement serving as his salvation instead of his death sentence, is layered with enough subtext to suck the air out of a room — if it hadn’t pushed audiences to triumphant ovations instead. The writer and director similarly packs the finale of his sophomore feature, Us, with both social and metatextual commentary.

Friday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, every Friday at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. Friday Night Movie Club Spend an evening with Vulture, every Friday at 7 p.m. ET on Twitter. Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Every week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our new Friday Night Movie Club.

At long last, our national nightmare of a late-night TV drought is over. With the recent end of the WGA strike, the Strike Force Five podcast has disbanded, Bill Maher has entered a lab somewhere to concoct his latest take on cancel culture, and Saturday Night Live returns this weekend. Baffled boomers and bored insomniacs everywhere can now exhale. When SNL last aired back in mid-April, Donald Trump was screaming about getting indicted, Elon Musk was making Twitter uninhabitable, and Pete Davidson was about to host for the first time.

The author of The Magicians returns to adult fiction with The Bright Sword. It only took ten years and a transpacific move. The Bright Sword is out July 16 from Viking. Photo: Jeff Brown The Bright Sword is out July 16 from Viking. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. By most metrics, the author Lev Grossman’s life appeared to change irrevocably in 2009.

Excerpt from The Best We Could Do. My only complaint about Thi Bui’s debut graphic memoir, which tells the sweeping tale of her family’s lives in Vietnam and the United States, relates to its title. The Best We Could Do is a fine moniker, but the name of this breathtaking work’s sixth chapter would fit the entire book even better: “The Chessboard.” Bui’s story is constructed like one, with the various members of her immediate and extended family beginning in the same place but moving away from it erratically, in fits and starts, eternally out of sync, and occasionally blocking each other’s paths.

“He must know God’s phone number, ‘cause he is superhuman. Like, Brett Farve? Come on. He’s like 3900 years old and he threw for six touchdowns?” —Lil’ Wayne [ESPN] “CBS’ decision to hide behind excuses that the incident was ‘fleeting’ and didn’t generate an immediate flood of complaints is the epitome of irresponsibly [sic]. The number of ‘fleeting’ penises we expect to see on broadcast television is zero.” —a statement from The Parents Television Council on the Survivor penis flap [Broadcasting & Cable]

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Lils Baby and Durk. Where’s my super suit? Lil Baby and Lil Durk have officially released their long-awaited collaboration The Voice of the Heroes. The Atlanta and Chicago rappers teamed up and brought along Meek Mill, Travis Scott, Young Thug, and Rod Wave, forming a rap Avengers, if you will. The 18-track joint is Baby’s third full-length collaborative album. According to a release, NBA star James Harden was the album’s Nick Fury, “as he was [sic] played a role in the inception of the project and Lil Baby spent considerable time in Harden’s studio.