2019 Grammy Nominations: The Snubs and Surprises

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Once you start looking for this holiday trope, you’ll see it everywhere.]( By Brian Moylan [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Editors’ Pick [Milkman,by Anna Burns This year’s Booker Prize winner is a #MeToo-era novel about a bookish girl who gets coerced by a paramilitary thug in 1970s Belfast.]( [The Brilliant Doc Divide and Conquer Tells Roger Ailes’s Origin Story No matter how far back it reaches, Divide and Conquer always feels as if it’s in the present tense.]( By David Edelstein [The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Ready for Her Close-Up The return of Sophie Lennon nearly sabotages Midge’s TV telethon debut — and her relationship with Susie.]( By Sarene Leeds [Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who Debut Season Is a Huge Ratings Success The Thirteenth Doctor has drawn an eye-popping 20 percent more viewers than Peter Capaldi last season.]( By Josef Adalian [Ben Is Back Is Superbly Effective I can’t remember ever having seen Julia Roberts work this hard.]( By David Edelstein [Zach Broussard Announces the Top 1,000 Comedians of 2018 Tomorrow Night Who will be the lucky 1,000 comedians this year? Watch here to find out!]( By Megh Wright [Has Michael Che Seen Nanette? An Investigation When will Che break his silence about this?]( By Megh Wright [A Guide to December’s Best In-flight Movies, Sorted by Airline What to watch while sitting in an upright position.]( By Kevin P. Sullivan [3 Great British Baking Show Spin-offs to Watch If You’re Craving More Have a merry Mary Berry holiday.]( By Devon Ivie [Shea Strauss Uses Drawing as Therapy Talking shop with the Brooklyn-based writer and illustrator.]( By Karen Chee [Mariah Carey’s Christmas Album Is the Only Thing That Will Never Suck Merry Christmas is the gift that keeps on giving and takes nothing in return, except for $60 million in royalties.]( By Rachel Handler [Tony Shalhoub on Filming Mrs. Maisel in Paris and His Inspiration for Abe “I like to have this opportunity to just shake that all out and do things that I wouldn’t, I couldn’t, have predicted.”]( By Jackson McHenry [The 10 Best Comics of 2018 Featuring Jason Lutes’s Berlin, Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, Jen Wang’s The Prince and the Dressmaker, and more.]( By Abraham Riesman [I Tried to Become a Radio City Rockette in One Day What does it take to make it as a Radio City Rockette? Video producer Madison Mills set out to learn.]( [Sara Holdren’s 10 Best Theater Productions of 2018 New life for old Greeks and Oklahomans and civics-class speechifying.]( By Sara Holdren [The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Road Trip From Hell The first-ever Mrs. Maisel comedy tour proves that as long as Midge and Susie have each other, they can overcome just about anything.]( By Sarene Leeds [Sara Bareilles Will Return to Waitress Once Again in January This time Tony winner Gavin Creel will star across from her.]( By Jackson McHenry [Bridey and Abby Elliott Made a Movie in Their Family’s Haunted House The sisters talk Clara’s Ghost, an off-kilter horror-comedy loosely based on their real lives — and starring the entire Elliott family.]( By April Wolfe [Vox Lux’s Brady Corbet on Making One of the Most Polarizing Movies of the Year “As much as I’d love to go to every cinema across the globe and set the volume and make sure everyone’s got proper context, that’s impossible.”]( By Charles Bramesco [The 10 Best Video Games of 2018 Superheroes, Norse mythology, and a Wild West masterpiece.]( By Jake Swearingen [The Best Hidden Jokes and Easter Eggs in The Good Place Season 3 Prepare yourself for a tremendous number of puns.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. 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