Culture
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 |
November 2023
Vanity Fair US
War Οf Τhe Worlds
The US military is pivoting its training operations from the anti-guerrilla tactics used in Afghanistan and Iraq to plans for a full-on, dug-in, nuclear-armed confrontation with an enemy superpower like Russia or China. Novelist and ex-Marine Phil Klay and photojournalist Peter Van Agtmael report on war's grave new frontier
7 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Last Descent
Though the world wouldn't catch on until disaster struck, a tight-knit community of seafarers, explorers, and bold submariners worried for years that Stockton Rush's OceanGate implosion was all but guaranteed. SUSAN CASEY, author of The Underworld, reveals the hardest truths about the Titan
10+ min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
Bad Bunny's Year of Rest and Relaxation
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio swears he's taking a breather from ultra-mega global superstardom to enjoy life in puerto rico and some downtime with his girlfriend. Just don't ask him about the album he's about to release
10+ min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Life of the Party
Your FAVORITE RAPPER'S FAVORITE BILLIONAIRE loves nothing more than to have a few hundred of his famous friends over to his Hamptons estate. How did a sports-licensing CEO from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, become this generation's Gatsby?
10+ min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
NEW DIRECTIONS
NIA DACOSTA, DIRECTOR AND COWRITER OF THE MARVELS, IS LESS CONCERNED ABOUT THE BARRIERS SHE'S BROKEN THAN THE WORLDS SHE'LL TAKE ON NEXT
8 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
SWAMP Things
Ron DeSantis won't hesitate to race Trump to the bottom. Take it from a native Floridian
6 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
Long Day's JOURNEY
Sure, geniuses should be allowed to make endless films. But what’s everybody else’s excuse?
7 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
DARK Matter
Nodding to gothic horror and cyber dystopia, moody makeup brings a glamorous edge to existential concerns
2 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
Marty Without THE MOB
Killers of the Flower Moon is part of arich but often overlooked strain of Scorsese’s storied careerMARTIN SCORSESE ISN'T afraid of what he doesn't know. \"He's the gutsiest director I've ever met in my life,\" says Irwin Winkler, who's produced Scorsese films for more than three decades.
2 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
FATHER Figure
ALEX COOPER takes the Call Her Daddy podcast to new heights
1 min |
October 2023
Vanity Fair US
Sympathy for the Devil
In 1981, Margy Palm was forced into her car at gunpoint by a serial killer suspected of more than 30 murders. What happened between them over the next eight hours-and later while he awaited execution-was so unlikely that journalists and filmmakers have tried for decades to get palm to tell the whole story. Now, in a series of in-depth interviews with Julie Miller, a survivor breaks her silence
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
Back to The Future
A debut makeup line from the house of Paco Rabanne honors the late designer’s iconic metalwork and prompts an experimental streak
3 min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Curious Case of the Cardboard Basquiats
A show of “lost” works by the celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art was meant to be a blockbuster. Then the feds came knocking
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
The Doppelganger Effect
It was more than a decade ago when writer and cultural critic Naomi Klein first realized people were confusing her—and her work—with another writer and cultural critic: Naomi Wolf. In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Klein grapples with a phenomenon she’s started to see repeated in the culture all around us
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
Presidential Timbre
I watched Hillary Clinton get within steps of the White House. Gretchen Whitmer could go all the way
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Vanity Fair US
Just Kids
In 2013, a bunch of unknowns made a tiny movie called Short Term 12. Ten years later, a shocking number have become stars, Oscar winners, superheroes, or all of the above. BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, LAKEITH STANFIELD, STEPHANIE BEATRIZ, KAITLYN DEVER, and writer-director DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON dish about the undersung drama that launched their careers
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
THE AMERICANS
On the eve of the US Open, VF catches up with the next generation of tennis stars
7 min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
PICTURE PERFECT
A new volume of portraits by photographer Slim Aarons, including never-before-seen work, reanimates a lost world
7 min |