Culture
Vanity Fair US
MARISKA HARGITAY
The star of Law & Order: SVU, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, on sharks, tap dancing, and making time stand still
2 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
Late Bloomer
Thirty years ago, after David Letterman decamped to CBS, NBC made a historic decision-to give Late Night to a nobody. An oral history of CONAN O'BRIEN's tumultuous (and hilarious) first year
10+ min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
TICKET TO RIDE
SIXTY YEARS AGO, HISTORY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL ROCK BAND TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM DURING THEIR FIRST-EVER TRIP TO THE US. AS A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, I WAS WITH THEM FOR THE HARD DAYS AND UPROARIOUS NIGHTS
10+ min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
THRONE OF GAMES
Wordle. Connections. Spelling Bee. Ye olde crossword. THE NEW YORK TIMES is home to the most popular brainteasers online-and that fandom is key to the paper's bottom line. Meet the mischievous masterminds stumping the solvers and running the show
10+ min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
BARBARIANS at the GLADES
Palm Beach, long a sleepy bastion for the leisurely elite, is straining under the weight of an influx of MAGAS with money, COVID exiles, and Gen X newbies. And don't even get them started on West Palm
10+ min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
PRETTY Boys
This Oscar season has redefined the himbo
5 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
THE FOG of War
How can we trust the images we see from the Israel-Hamas conflict?
5 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
BOHEMIAN Rhapsody
At a jewel box of a hotel in Mexico City, lush pleasures come in an exquisite package
2 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
Speak MEMORY
Two authors consider resilience in memoirs of mourning one a divorce, the other a dear friend's death
1 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
Salon CULTURE
A Met exhibition on the impact of the Harlem Renaissance illuminates a link between beauty pioneer Madam C.J. Walker and contemporary art
2 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
Cult Classics
Prada Beauty looks to the future while mining the house codes.
1 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
Open BOOK
On stage and screen, RENEÉ RAPP plays a queen bee. In real life, she's more a Janis Ian type
2 min |
February 2024
Vanity Fair US
The Ascendant
Jesmyn Ward, double national book award winner and best-selling author, returns to fiction with the haunting, beautiful Let Us Descend
10 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
Shades of stardom
Sandra Hüller is in two riveting films this awards season, the moral thriller Anatomy of a Fall and the Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. The German actor isn't after the spotlight-but she may not have a choice
10+ min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
Case Study
Lipstick tubes have taken on outsize personas, from status objects to conversation pieces
2 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
A House Divided
Amid calls for a union, star-vs.-star showdowns, and lots and lots of drinking, some Real Housewives are facing their demons
10+ min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
Greta Gerwig – The Great
With Barbie, Greta Gerwig injected billions into the box office and joy back into Hollywood. If she has her way and there's every reason to think she will-she'll be doing the same thing for the next 40 years
10+ min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
The Frenchie Revolution
Money, murder, fur. Welcome to the war over America's most popular dog
10+ min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
When Sunset's Not Selling
With its power creatives on strike, a hefty new mansion tax, and insurers fleeing, LA's fanciest properties are at a standstill
6 min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
OUTFOXED
Rupert Murdoch dumping Tucker Carlson wasn’t about one thing. It was everything
10+ min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
SPEECH Bubble
Bari Weiss peers into Hollywood’s soul as she puts cultural controversies on the stage By Emily Jane Fox
6 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
INDEPENDENT Streak
With two wildly different movies in the Oscar race, producer Christine Vachon is an iconoclast who’s become an icon
5 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Vanity Fair US
Hip-Hop's Renaissance Man
He was a graffiti-art pioneer, denizen of CBGB, friend of Basquiat, collaborator with Blondie, and host of the show that helped turn hip-hop global. On the 40th anniversary of Wild Style, the cult film that made him famous, FAB FIVE FREDDY takes stock
10+ min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Streisand Effect
At home with the legend, talking music, movies, and her revealing new memoir, My Name Is Barbra
10+ min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Way We Made The Way We Were
It was the producer Ray Stark who initially asked Arthur Laurents to write something for me. Arthur told me that Ray was impressed with the huge success of The Sound of Music and The Miracle Worker and thought, Why not combine the two and have me teaching handicapped children in Brooklyn to sing?
10+ min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
Atsuko All the Way
Thanks to her singular energy and her many viral videos-not to mention her trademark bowl cut, which inspires fans to buy wigs for her shows-Atsuko Okatsuka has become one of the most beloved stand-up comics around
10+ min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
Estate of Play
Once you’re 200 or so miles north of London, everything seems to be bigger and bolder, including the country houses. This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England.
10+ min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
THE MOON SHOT
It can be hard to remember after years of collective grief and bitter politics, but a COVID-19 vaccine was never a sure thing. Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean report on the unlikely group of scientists, generals, and government officials who supercharged the effort to get us back to some kind of normal
10+ min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
THE ROTHSCHILD WHO WASN'T
Charming, enterprising, and fabulously wealthy: KYLE DE ROTHSCHILD DESCHANEL was a New York sensation who lived on a 24/7 carousel of mega-dollar deals and raucous parties. Then his best friend found an ID labeled \"ARYEH DODELSON\"
10+ min |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
Reign SUPREME
Chief Justice John Roberts insists he’s taken the reins of the Supreme Court. But the institution may be too far gone
6 min |