Forget AI oopsies; here are some of the best books to kick off your summer reading, from the steamy to the spine-chilling—and each hand-selected by the staff of VF.

Too conventional. That is, until The Star card appears, laying bare their entire repressed emotional history like a raw, unscripted Oscar speech. They'll scoff, dismiss Tarot as vague, then pull ...

These six stories offered comfort, courage, and truth to the child in me still waiting to be held, whispered to, and finally understood in all their complexity and quiet resilience, shaping who I have ...

He and Alida, an art curator, were 'delighted' to discover he had a daughter, says Danielle: 'They took to me like a duck to water.' Three weeks after near daily emails, Danielle flew to San ...

A job that involves travelling on private jets that commands a six-figure salary sounds like a dream, but believe me, as a nanny to the ultra-wealthy, it can sometimes be nightmarish. I’ve dealt ...

A mother says it is “sickening” that her son died in an explosion because two men were making cannabis shatter in the flat ... gas used to make the toffee-like resin exploded.

Those four words hit me like a sledgehammer. Maggie was a hoarder — our bedroom, especially, was full of ... things. Piles and piles of things. Shelves and drawers full of things. At some point — ...

Photograph: Kind courtesy Palak Jaiswal/Instagram Like thousands of aspirants in ... The rejections used to shatter me. You take them personally. But as you gain experience, you realise that ...

The very idea is so steeped in violence it is almost impossible to contemplate — like a knife so ... MendorsPas): Don’t Put Me Under” movement and writes her book “to sound the alarm ...

I was born to Roman Catholic, Irish parents in the 80’s; baptised as a baby, took first holy Communion at the age of 7 (like so many Catholics, the picture from that day of me smiling sweetly ...

But in the unfamiliar streets, she lost her way coming back and asked a man for directions. He was tinkering with his car, a red Ford Cortina. Seemed safe enough, a mechanic like her dad, she thought.

Look, I know she’s not real and it’s AI, but when she holds me it feels like nothing else in the world matters.’ Another forum post catches my attention. It’s titled: ‘I want to have a ...