Vanity Fair US
Fire and ICE
The women I met at a Louisiana detention center, where I was held for 45 days, demonstrated generosity and compassion through even the darkest times.
10+ min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Draw STRAWS
Gary Shteyngart by the seashore, Kate Broad at the club. It's a pool party in your beach bag with some of the summer's best books
1 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Godfather Presidency
Forget the comparisons to fascists and autocrats. The most accurate model for understanding Donald Trump is the Mob-adjacent, politically connected underbelly of 1970s and '80s New York real estate
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
STAR WITNESS
NEARLY A DECADE AFTER KIM KARDASHIAN WAS ROBBED AT GUNPOINT, HER EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY IN A PARIS COURTROOM HELPED CONVICT HER ATTACKERS
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Out of the park
Mistaken identities, separated twins, catfishing, cross-dressing: After an $80 million renovation, Central Park's Delacorte Theater returns this summer with a star-studded Twelfth Night
7 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Estate of Mind
A sprawling palazzo in the Eternal City has been both home and office to Giancarlo Giammetti for decades, during and after his romance to his lifelong business partner, Valentino Garavani. The business half of the iconic house opens his doors to VF
9 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Whole Truth
MARISKA HARGITAY was just three years old when her mother, Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a car accident. In a new documentary, the Law & Order star examines her mother's sex symbol status and reveals a long-held family secret
7 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
BRAVE HEART
PEDRO PASCAL'S emotional depth onscreen and his exuberance everywhere else have skyrocketed him to the top of the A-list and made him a sex symbol in middle age. A funny, sad, wildly honest talk with a star unlike any other
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Greek REVIVAL
Along the Aegean, a cadre of major art players has been steadily setting up shop. Here's what to see—and where to be seen—this season By Nate Freeman
3 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
No Place Like HOME
New homewares from Louis Vuitton fuse function and fashion By Kia D. Goosby
2 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Scream QUEEN
CHASE SUI WONDERS battles serial killers and bloodthirsty paparazzi with equal aplomb
2 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Flow STATE
Following an aggressive cancer diagnosis and the end of her marriage, KATIE NICHOLL finds tranquility at the Oberoi
3 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
A Modern PROMETHEUS
From ushering in Citizens United to granting vast immunity powers, John Roberts paved the way for Donald Trump's destructive second term
8 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
BIG SWING
CAN A HIGH-TECH MAKEOVER TURN GOLF INTO A FAST-PACED ARENA-FILLING SPECTACLE? TGL'S BIG-NAME INVESTORS SURE HOPE SO
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY
After a dizzying rise in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement, CALLEY MEANS has been a key leader of its federal health takeover. But former coworkers have questions about whether Means embellished the powerful narrative he rode to the top
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
THE HOME OF THE WEATHER GOD
In northern Anatolia, archaeologists have discovered the source of Hittite royal power
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD CITY
Archaeologists are reconstructing the complicated 400-year history of Virginia's colonial capital
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
BOUND FOR HEAVEN
During excavations of a Byzantine monastery in 2017 just north of Jerusalem's Old City, a team led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Zubair 'Adawi and Kfir Arbiv discovered an unusual burial in a crypt beneath the altar of the complex's church.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
Birds of a Feather
Intriguing rock art in the Four Corners reveals how the Basketmaker people drew inspiration from ducks 1,500 years ago
8 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL BRAIN
When most people envision the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they think of the casts of their bodies made by pouring plaster into voids left by their decaying corpses. Yet not all the physical remains of those who perished in the cataclysm decayed. In one case, a remarkable transformation occurred—a man’s brain turned to glass.
3 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
In Search of Lost Pharaohs
Anubis Mountain conceals the tombs of an obscure Egyptian dynasty
3 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
SOLDIERS OF ILL FORTUNE
The Schmalkaldic War, which began in 1546 and lasted less than a year, pitted the forces of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V (reigned 1519-1556) against the Schmalkaldic League, a Protestant alliance formed by German principalities and cities within the empire.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
SAINTS ALIVE
Since 2019, archaeologists have been excavating in Berlin's oldest square, known as the Molkenmarkt, or Whey Market.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
Setting Sail for Valhalla
Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
ITALY'S GARDEN OF MONSTERS
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone
10 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
ROAD ΤΟ DAMASCUS
Returning to anewly liberated Syria, veteran war correspondent JANINE DI GIOVANNI discovers a nation wary of its untested leaders, haunted by five decades of trauma, and yet imbued with hope and possibility
10+ min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Kathy Bates
She hasn't always been on “the A-team going to Ibiza or whatever”— and thank heavens for that. A candid interview with a legend in a league of her own
10+ min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
A Dose of REALITY
The Emmys would be less—what's the word?—boring if they stopped snubbing the grand circus of reality TV By John Ross
2 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Full SCREEN
At 20, YouTube has hosted billions of videos, launched stars—and made Hollywood nervous.
10 min |
June 2025
Vanity Fair US
Revenge PLOT
Nearly 20 years post-Oprah brouhaha, JAMES FREY is back with a sexy, funny novel that's headed straight to the screen
2 min |