Vanity Fair US
How to Win an Oscar—or Go Broke Trying
Awards season, an annual circus of consultants and events, is awash in money. Nearly everyone involved seems to tolerate this at best. So why does Hollywood keep doing it? JOY PRESS looks for answers
7 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
California Schemin'
Even newspapers can have Hollywood ambitions. As the New York Post colonizes Los Angeles, its editors reveal big future plans, and, as LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT reports, onlookers are welcoming the California news wars
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. It's all anyone can talk about in private, at parties, on location. With the town on edge, TOM DOTAN plumbs the industry's anxiety and hope
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
All in Vein
VERA PAPISOVA spends the day with Hollywood's new in-demand accoutrement: a blood concierge
10 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
Confessions on a Dance Floor
Once upon a time, going out in Hollywood was actually fun. DEREK C. BLASBERG lifts the velvet rope for an oral history of LA nightlife in the 2000s as told by the insiders who made it happen
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
World on Fire
OLIVIA NUZZI was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames. In an excerpt from American Canto, our West Coast Editor takes stock of scorched earth
10+ min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
MIDCENTURY MAISON
For years, Nicolas Ghesquière had one very special West Hollywood house on his mood board. PAUL GOLDBERGER tours the property—newly restored by the designer and his partner, Drew Kuhse—that is now the couple's American home base
9 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
BAGGAGE CLAIM
Schlepping is an art, particularly in a Wes Anderson film. Whether trekking to prep schools or grand hotels, heading off on trains, planes, and automobiles, or escaping from camp, the director's crew of eccentric characters all travel in style.
1 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
HACKING THE SYSTEM
Do you want to live forever? VERA PAPISOVA has devised the perfect day, full of antiaging and devoid of death
3 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
KAIA GERBER SLAYS IT ALL
Catwalk. Back lot. Boardroom. Bookshelf. Rebecca Ford meets a self-confident, self-aware multihyphenate
7 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
IF THE SHOE FITS
During a six-week stay at the Sunset Tower, JULI WEINER slipped into something more comfortable for daily life a plush pair of hotel slippers. Here, she makes the case for taking them to the street
2 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
DEER DIARY
After CAZZIE DAVID moved into the hunting lodge of an Old Hollywood star, she got in touch with her animal instincts
5 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
RUTH E. CARTER
Ryan Coogler's go-to costume designer—the two-time Oscar winner who breathed life into Spike Lee's earlier masterpieces and conjured up Black Panther's signature style—on taking a seminal trip to Egypt, wearing status pajamas, and telling her doctor little white lies
2 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
37 HOURS IN HOLLYWOOD
From a dawn run for Erewhon smoothies to sunset on Hollywood Boulevard, with stops in London, Paris, Nashville, and New York, Vanity Fair invites you to ramble and roam the corridors of a global industry at a crossroads.
8 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
THE PEOPLE'S PRINCES
In Hollywood's golden age, studios turned regular men into secular gods: changing their names, hiding their flaws. But now, writes OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, the era of the remote matinee idol is over-and the dawn of the almost approachable, appealingly authentic modern actor is in full swing. Meet the new class of leading men
7 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
DREAM WEAVER
Nearly five years ago CHLOÉ ZHAO's Nomadland broke new ground and swept awards season. Now the director is ready to do it all again with Hamnet, a devastating portrayal of love and loss. MICHELLE RUIZ sits down with the visionary for a revealing conversation about on-set raves, reviving Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and navigating Hollywood as a neurodivergent filmmaker
9 min |
Hollywood 2025/2026
The New Yorker
IBSEN ON THE BEACH
In Spain, Francisco Coll turns \"An Enemy of the People\" into an opera.
5 min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
MR. MICROCOSM
Getting to grips with Goethe.
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
A FURTHER SHORE
Doing battle with my blood.
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
VALLEY OF BABEL
Reformers tried to standardize a tiny language. Then the shouting started.
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
UNDER COVER
\"The Secret Agent.\"
6 min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
SAFETY
Dictators like to move people around.
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
ONLY FANS
The stadium goes luxe.
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
IN THE LINE OF FIRE
How do politicians respond to political violence?
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
SKIPPING CLASS
How a high-born rebel girl came to take up the cause of the commoner.
10+ min |
December 08, 2025
The New Yorker
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
Where Dante guides us.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
The New Yorker
TABLES FOR TWO I'm Donut?
I'm Donut?, a Japanese bakery chain known for its viral popularity and its curiously punctuated name, opened earlier this year in a sleek Times Square storefront.
3 min |
December 01, 2025
The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
On a Friday evening in October, 2021, the Justice Department launched into damage-control mode. The Attorney General, Merrick Garland, the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, and other senior officials gathered on an emergency conference call to decide how to deal with what they considered out-of-line remarks from President Joe Biden.
4 min |
December 01, 2025
The New Yorker
GOING VIRAL
\"Pluribus,\" on Apple TV.
5 min |
December 01, 2025
The New Yorker
PAST WIVES
\"This World of Tomorrow\" and \"Oedipus\" look back.
5 min |