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 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
Esquire US
Don't Meet Your Heroes, Especially the Dead Ones
In 1933, Hemingway needed money. Esquire needed a writer. A boat brought them together. It's a mostly true story that speaks volumes about the lives of men then and now.
10 min |
October - November 2023
Time
Fight at the Museum
Political pressure led the new Latino-history museum to scrap an exhibit on youth movements
3 min |
October 09, 2023
New York magazine
'Romeo and Juliet' Was a Tragedy
In 1968, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were the most famous teenagers in the world. Fifty-five years later, they sued Paramount for child abuse.
10+ min |
September 25 - October 08, 2023
New York magazine
67 Minutes With... Werner Herzog
The filmmaker famous for bending the truth tries his hand at memoir.
6 min |
September 25 - October 08, 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
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
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
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
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
New York magazine
The Journalist and the Billionaire
Walter Isaacson is a man with a golden rolodex, impeccable Establishment credentials, and world-class schmoozing skills. Now he has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all those things.
10+ min |
September 11 - 24, 2023
Mother Jones
To Match a Predator
Dating apps promise to hook you up with romance. But they can deliver con artists, rapists, and murderers.
10+ min |
September/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
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
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
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
LIFE OF RILEY
DAISY JONES & THE SIX PROPELLED RILEY KEOUGH TO STARDOM EVEN AS SHE COPED WITH THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, LISA MARIE PRESLEY, AND A LEGAL BATTLE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER, PRISCILLA. NOW THE ACTOR, FILMMAKER, AND NEW MOTHER IS CHASING PEACE AND CLARITY AND, IMPROBABLY, FINDING THEM
10+ min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
Wherever he goes, LEWIS PULLMAN is in his element
Last fall, while filming Apple’s Lessons in Chemistry, adapted from the beloved novel by Bonnie Garmus, showrunner Lee Eisenberg made an on-the-fly change: The actor Lewis Pullman’s turn as Calvin, a progressive, introverted chemist in 1960s Los Angeles, was so winning that Eisenberg wrote him into more episodes than originally planned. Earlier this year, the Top Gun: Maverick scene-stealer wowed festival-goers at Sundance with The Starling Girl and at Tribeca with The Line. As he braces for leading man attention, Pullman reflects on life in and out of Hollywood.
2 min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
Breaking the BINARY
Inside the fight to de-gender awards shows
3 min |
September 2023
Vanity Fair US
The PLAYER
The Barstool Sports brand is known for its bro-ish excess, but the company has a woman to thank for driving its $550 million sale: CEO Erika Ayers Badan
10+ 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 |
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
Archaeology
RAM HEADS FOR RAMESSES
While exploring the surroundings of the temple of the pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned ca. 1279-1213 B.C.) in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, archaeologists from New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World uncovered an enormous collection of mummified animal heads in an ancient storage area.
1 min |
September/October 2023
Archaeology
NOSE TO TAIL
Los Angeles' first Chinatown was settled starting around 1880, south of the city's historic center, the Los Angeles Plaza. Over the next two decades, the densely populated neighborhood expanded to the northeast and became home to a range of Chinese-owned businesses. These included markets that sold fare such as plum sauce for seasoning roast meat and restaurants that served up delicacies such as bird's nest soup and century eggs.
3 min |
September/October 2023
Archaeology
SUNKEN CARGO
Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists have begun to investigate 44 tons of marble building materials that a swimmer spotted in shallow water 600 feet off the coast of the ancient Roman port of Caesarea after they were exposed by a recent storm.
1 min |
September/October 2023
Archaeology
ROYAL WHARF
During excavations in Oslo's Bjørvika neighborhood, archaeologists have uncovered a portion of the foundations of a medieval wharf.
1 min |