Vanity Fair US
MOLLY GORDON writes her own ticket
“I’ve never been in something that people watch,” says Molly Gordon, “which is a very different experience.”
3 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Special TREATMENT
With high-tech beauty offerings at the freshly renovated Hôtel Plaza Athénée and a new location in Portofino, Dior spas are redesigning wellness
2 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE LONG GOODBYE
Erica Jong, feminist icon and literary celebrity, was a dominant force in the culture—and my life. Watching my mother slide into dementia is a reminder of the fleeting nature of fame.
10+ min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
BEST in SHOWS
UNDER JOHN LANDGRAF'S LEADERSHIP, FX HAS BECOME A FACTORY OF PRESTIGE HITS BY NOT ACTING LIKE A FACTORY. INSIDE THE MIND OF THE STREAMING INDUSTRY'S WISE MAN—AND THE STUDIO THAT GAVE US THE BEAR, SHOGUN, FARGO, AND MORE
10+ min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
KEVIN BACON
The Bondsman actor on marriage, bullshit, and his perfectly unique nose
2 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE BARRON Identity
The world's most famous college freshman is as mysterious a presence at NYU as he is in the American psyche By Dan Adler
10 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
BERNADETTE PETERS
The Broadway legend talks high- maintenance dogs, Chinese philosophy, and her love for Stephen Sondheim
2 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHANGE AGENT
Ex-CIA analyst ELISSA SLOTKIN, the moderate freshman senator from Michigan, is a rising Democratic star in a party that desperately needs them
10+ min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
Poetic HARMONY
With “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” at the Guggenheim Museum, RASHID JOHNSON revisits his archive
2 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
FLIGHT RISK
IT'S SUSPECTED THAT A RECENT SPATE OF GLOBAL AVIATION INCIDENTS INVOLVING EXPLODING CARGO, HACKED GPS SYSTEMS, OR SPOOFED COORDINATES TRACES BACK TO RUSSIAN AGGRESSORS. THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE ATTACKS ONLY RIVALS RUSSIA'S PENCHANT FOR BRUTALITY, SO WHAT'S NEXT? THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
10+ min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Artist's WAY
Multitalented ESTHER MCGREGOR finds her footing in front of the camera
3 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
OPEN ROAD
F1 ACADEMY, THE ALL-WOMEN RACING LEAGUE LAUNCHED IN 2023, IS AIMING ITS DRIVERS AT THE SPORT'S HIGHEST ECHELON
5 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
Working THROUGH IT
VF's royals correspondent reveals how she fought her own battle with cancer—‘ile reporting on the Windsors’ diagnoses
5 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
UNITED WE STAN
FROM MARVEL ANTI-HERO TO TRUMP AND TOMMY LEE, SEBASTIAN STAN HAS EMERGED—SLOWLY AND NOW SEEMINGLY ALL AT ONCE—AS ONE OF THE MORE FEARLESS ACTORS OF OUR TIME
10+ min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
ROMAN EMPIRE
JOE ANOA'I SLAMMED HIS WAY TO WWE STARDOM AS “ROMAN REIGNS.” NOW THE BRAWNY BRAWLER IS LOOKING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR HIS NEXT STARRING ROLE
10+ min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
IN GOOD COMPANY
AS THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL KICKS OFF ITS PLAN TO GO TUITION-FREE, VF GATHERED SOME AUGUST ALUMNI TO TALK ABOUT MEMORIES AND DREAMS
6 min |
May 2025
Vanity Fair US
Feeling THIS
In a full-hearted new memoir, Blink-182’S MARK HOPPUS confronts friendship breakups and a cancer diagnosis
3 min |
May 2025
Archaeology
THE KING'S THRONE
The Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long linen cloth crafted in the eleventh century, depicts scenes from William the Conqueror’s invasion of England and his defeat of Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king, at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. (See “Unfolding the Bayeux Tapestry,” January/February 2021.)
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
THE CAT AND THE FAT
During the 19th Dynasty (ca. 1295–1186 B.c.), the village of Deir el-Medina, on the Nile’s west bank in Upper, or southern, Egypt, was home to a community of civil servants and artisans who built and decorated the royal tombs in the nearby Valley of the Kings.
2 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
Lost City of the Samurai
Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan's brutal power struggles
10+ min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
Desert Paradise Found
How a tiny, water-rich kingdom came to dominate vital trade routes in the Arabian Gulf 4,000 years ago
10+ min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
A PASSION FOR FRUIT
Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons...and more
8 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of AMERICA
The cultural heritage of world communities and their ancestral landscapes, historic monuments, museums, and physical artifacts are increasingly vulnerable as a result of global climate change.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
MAKING HISTORY
Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois sometime after 1150.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
HERO WORSHIP
A bronze knife handle discovered in the 1990s in the northern English town of Corbridge depicting a left-handed gladiator has offered insight into fandom in the ancient Roman world.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
BULOW PLANTATION RUINS, FLORIDA
Seventy-five miles northeast of Disney World, a tangled forest of palms, pines, and mossy oaks nearly reclaims the charred remnants of Bulow Plantation and the hulking ruins of its massive steam-powered sugar mill.
2 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
STICKING TO THE RAPTOR DIET
The diet of British birds of prey in the distant past was very different from that of their descendants.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
BYZANTINE BOOMTOWN
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed parts of a Roman and Byzantine settlement just outside the modern city of Kiryat Gat.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
PHARAOH'S FATE
Extensive remnants of one of the temples commissioned by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (reigned ca. 1473-1458 B.c.) have been discovered in the town of Deir el-Bahari on the west bank of the Nile.
1 min |
May/June 2025
Archaeology
Peru's Timeless Threads
More than 1,000 years ago, master weavers kept the ancient traditions of the Moche culture alive
6 min |