Archaeology
ACTS OF FAITH
Evidence emerges of the day in 1562 when an infamous Spanish cleric tried to destroy Maya religion
10+ min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
FOSSIL FORCE
One of the planet's most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago.
1 min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
BUILDING THE BLACK CITY
Why the nomads of the Uighur Empire constructed a medieval urban center like no other
10+ min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
SEARCHING FOR VENEZUELA'S UNDISCOVERED ARTISTS
Inspired by their otherworldly landscape, ancient people created a new rock art tradition
9 min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
IN HIS MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
The relationship between archaeology and espionage is close. During the twentieth century, for example, both Britain and the United States recruited archaeologists working in some of the world's most sensitive locales as spies. Beginning in 1911, T. E. Lawrence excavated the Hittite site of Carchemish on the Euphrates River, from where he could keep an eye on the Germans, who were constructing a railway supply line between Baghdad and Berlin.
2 min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
Secrets of the Seven Wonders
How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments
10+ min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
THE EGYPTIAN SEQUENCE
Until now, the earliest Egyptians to have even part of their DNA sequenced were three people who lived between 787 and 544 B.C.
1 min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
A FAMILIAR FACE
In the early eleventh century, a landslide on the island of Ostrów Lednicki in western Poland caused a hillfort to collapse and slip to the bottom of Lake Lednica.
1 min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
SOURCE MATERIAL
As early as 40,000 years ago, some hunter-gatherers in southern Africa ventured long distances to procure special types of stone to make their tools.
1 min |
November/December 2025
Archaeology
BIGHORN MEDICINE WHEEL, WYOMING
Perched almost 9,700 feet above sea level on Medicine Mountain in Wyoming's Bighorn Range, the Medicine Wheel is an 80-foot-diameter circular structure made from limestone boulders.
2 min |
November/December 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE FLORIDA DIVORCÉE'S GUIDE TO MURDER
Published in 1983, Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors inspired a triple murder and led to a major First Amendment test case. Still, the book is just one chapter in the bizarre story of its until-now anonymous author, \"Rex Feral,\" now a 77-year-old great-grandmother wrestling with decades of guilt
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
Sibling Revelru
ELLE AND DAKOTA FANNING HAVE BEEN ACTING ALMOST AS LONG AS THEY'VE BEEN SISTERS AND HAVE HIT REMARKABLY FEW BUMPS ON THE ROAD TO GROWN-UP MOVIE STARDOM. THEIR SECRET IS SIMPLE, SAVANNAH WALSH REPORTS: A FAMILIAL BOND EVEN A NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH BUSINESS CAN'T BREAK
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Team's Gambit
Many have tried to crack the notoriously tricky musical Chess but Nicholas Christopher.Lea Michele, and Aaron Tveit might actually pull it off.
6 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHARM TO TABLE
The 26-year-old chef FLYNN MCGARRY has been wowing diners for more than a decade. His most ambitious project yet promises fully-fledged escapism
3 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
BRUCE ALMIGHTY
When Emma Heming married one of the world's most famous movie stars, an alpha male with a wink to beat them all, she didn't imagine the fate that would ultimately befall either of them. Now, as Bruce Willis grapples with frontotemporal dementia, his wife and caregiver tells ANNA PEELE how she is helping others through the experience of the longest goodbye
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHAOS THEORY
Mitchell Jackson, a once-canceled journalist, is comfortable with controversy—his own and that of his incendiary clients
10 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
EXILES IN PARIS
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, the Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui believed his greatest risk was being killed by his country's military.
5 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
BUDDY COMEDY
From his early stand-up days to his work on such instant classics as Freaks and Geeks and Girls, JUDD APATOW has spent a lifetime capturing high hilarity and hoarding the accompanying snapshots and ephemera. In this exclusive excerpt from his visual memoir, Comedy Nerd, where he shares his trove for the first time, LENA DUNHAM describes the generous guy behind the slapstick
3 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
JEREMY O. HARRIS is a playwright, producer, performer, provocateur, dandy, bon vivant, and depending who you ask, a genius. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, CHRIS MURPHY asks, can Harris keep all the plates spinning?
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
MARK RONSON
The Oscar-winning songwriter and producer documents a bygone era of New York in his new memoir
1 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
VANITIES
The seminomadic Springsteen obsessive and recovering indie darling is living her dream: starring as The Boss's muse opposite Jeremy Allen White
3 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
LUCA GUADAGNINO
The director of After the Hunt on the benefits of solipsism and the very first cake he ever baked
1 min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE PRICE OF INFAMY
Her father's mistress— a teenage girl—shot her mother in the head on the front steps of their family home when Jessica Buttafuoco was only nine years old. Now, a figure in one of the most infamous tabloid sagas of the 1990s—hashed and rehashed everywhere from the New York Post to The New York Times, played out in various TV movies starring Drew Barrymore or Alyssa Milano as the Long Island Lolita—is confronting the crime that shaped her whole life
10+ min |
October 2025
Vanity Fair US
HARLEM HOME COMING
THE STUDIO MUSEUM WILL STAGE A DAZZLING RETURN AMID TENSE TIMES AND A CHANGING NEIGHBORHOOD. IT COULDN'T ARRIVE SOONER
5 min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Enchanted KINGDOMS
Don't let summer's end quell your wanderlust. Journey to Renaissance-era Venice, through the halls of the newly renovated Frick Collection, and across Chilean archipelagos.
1 min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
A Chan of Heart
In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan built a philanthropic behemoth in their image: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Science-forward, research-backed, driven by empathy. But as Zuckerberg and Meta have tacked right, ditching DEI, insiders say Chan has become a proxy figure in the battle between her husband's company and their progressive CZI staff
10+ min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
A SACRED PAUSE
IN 1928, COCO CHANEL CONJURED HER RIVIERA GETAWAY INTO BEING, COMPLETE WITH ARTIST FRIENDS, LAVENDER FIELDS, AND A CLAY COURT WORTHY OF ROLAND GARROS. FOLLOWING A MAGNIFICENT RESTORATION OF LA PAUSA, AS THE PROPERTY IS KNOWN, A NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE HOUSE'S VIBRANT HISTORY
7 min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
JOSH BROLIN
The actor on dry skin, the American dream, and the famous Brolin behind
2 min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
Heir APPARENT
What do Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Elisabeth Moss have in common? CHASE INFINITI playing their daughter on a screen near you
2 min |
September 2025
Vanity Fair US
GAME SHOW
Jason Kelce, Richard Sherman, and Nate Burleson may be football prodigies, but they weren't natural-born commentators―they took a crash course at the NFL's Broadcast Boot Camp. VF has a sneak peek at the class of 2025
10+ min |