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Lila Shapiro

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Lila Shapiro is a features writer for New York Magazine. She has written about Hollywood controversies, literary mysteries, and political battles. She is the recipient of a 2022 Front Page award for her investigation into Joss Whedon.

  1. overnights
    Search Party Recap: The Key to the CityGood boy Drew has clearly embraced his dark side.
  2. Ask an Expert: Can the Plagiarism Charges Against Emma Cline Hold Up in Court?It’s unlikely.
  3. overnights
    Search Party Recap: Back to BrooklynOf all Dory’s bad ideas, this one might be the worst.
  4. overnights
    Search Party Season-Premiere Recap: We’re Not Murderers!Will Dory and her friends actually get away with murder?
  5. vulture roundtable
    What Pop Culture Gets Right and Wrong About Witches, According to a Real CovenFrom Buffy to The Witch, an actual coven judges the best and worst depictions of witchcraft in movies and TV.
  6. Lin-Manuel Miranda on How The Kingkiller Chronicles Inspired MoanaPlus, the “really singsongy” Lady Lackless tune he wrote.
  7. Patrick Rothfuss Is About to Be Fantasy’s Next SuperstarAs the author adapts his beloved trilogy for film and TV with Lin-Manuel Miranda, one question haunts him: Where’s the third book?
  8. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles Headed Showtime“I very rarely reread books, but I reread those books several times just to luxuriate in reading them.”
  9. Practical Magic Got Cursed by an Actual Witch. Is That Why It Bombed?Director Griffin Dunne explains what happened after a real witch turned against the 1998 cult hit.
  10. The Making (and Unmaking) of a 23-Hour Times Best SellerHandbook for Mortals author Lani Sarem on scheming her way to the top of the list, and why she’d probably do it all over again.
  11. vulture guides
    Your Guide to the Gods of American GodsAfter you inevitably find yourself asking, what the hell is going on?
  12. overnights
    I Love Dick Season Finale Recap: The Beauty Dance“Did you get to do everything you wanted?”
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    I Love Dick Recap: Reality BitesThe fantasy of Dick is crumbling, not only for Chris, but for all the women in Marfa.
  14. overnights
    I Love Dick Recap: Art Becomes Life Becomes Art“Dick does not care to be made a spectacle of. You better watch your back.”
  15. overnights
    I Love Dick Recap: Dear DickEvery woman in Marfa sees Dick as a symbol of something different.
  16. overnights
    I Love Dick Recap: The Circling Cyclone“Dear Dick, did you think this was going to be pretty?”
  17. overnights
    I Love Dick Recap: The Dick Letters“I want to be a female monster.”
  18. overnights
    I Love Dick Recap: The MetamorphosisChris is shaken by her latest encounter with Dick.
  19. overnights
    I Love Dick Series-Premiere Recap: Welcome to Marfa“Dear Dick: This is about obsession.”
  20. ask an expert
    Could a Real-Life San Junipero Ever Happen? We Asked a Neuroscientist “It’s kind of this techno substitution for traditional stories of life after death. It’s just substituting a different mechanism.”
  21. ask an expert
    How Realistic Is Westworld? We Asked a FuturistShould we start preparing for the robocalypse?