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VIET THANH NGUYEN explores what it means to be an outsider
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April 2025
Vanity Fair US
Gossip GIRLS
Conservative media has feasted on the fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. If you're full of hate for Hollywood, what's not to love?
2 min |
April 2025
Vanity Fair US
AIR OF DANGER
Fancy fliers have created a huge boom in private-jet travel, no longer the exclusive province of Fortune 500 companies, Elon Musk, or Taylor Swift. Yet for all the allure, flying private is a rather dangerous luxury
10+ min |
April 2025
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Masks OFF
He spent his teen years concealing his sexuality. Now BENITO SKINNER IS mining that awkward time for art
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March 2025
Vanity Fair US
VIBE CHECK
WITH 2024 IN THE REARVIEW, HIGH-RANKING DEMOCRATS ARE FINALLY ARRIVING AT THE HARD TRUTH THAT THEIR PARTY IS UNWELL. \"DISARRAY\" DOESN'T QUITE COVER IT. AS FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING ABOUT IT-AND WHETHER THEY CAN EVER WREST THE COUNTRY BACK FROM TRUMP AND TRUMPISMIT DEPENDS ON WHOM YOU ASK
10+ min |
March 2025
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WHERE DEI Went to D-I-E
Many people of color in Hollywood suspected it was mostly window dressing—and they’ve been proven right
9 min |
March 2025
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Gastronomic IMMUNITY
Washington, DC's ascendant dining scene prepares to seat a second Trump administration
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March 2025
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No WONDER
RUPERT EVERETT reveals what’s behind his new collection of short stories, a meditation on rejection
2 min |
March 2025
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
AS THE SENSATIONAL HIT SERIES THAT LAUNCHED HER CAREER COMES TO AN END, MILLIE BOBBY BROWN HAS A PLAN TO SUSTAIN THE MOMENTUMALL WHILE SAYING NO AS MUCH AS SHE NEEDS TO AND LIVING ON A FARM IN GEORGIA. WHY NOT? STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED
10+ min |
March 2025
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NYPD CONFIDENTIAL
Along with a contingent of detectives and undercover operatives, the NYPD's counterterror czar, Rebecca Weiner, defends New York City and the nation against enemies foreign and domestic. ADAM CIRALSKY reports from inside the country's most elite local law enforcement agency
10+ min |
March 2025
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SECOND ACT
SMASH, THE SHORT-LIVED 2012 TV SERIES, DEVELOPED A DEDICATED CULT FOLLOWING. NOW, STEVEN SPIELBERG AND COMPANY HAVE RESURRECTED IT FOR BROADWAY. MICHAEL RIEDEL TELLS THE BACKSTORY OF THE ORIGINAL SHOW AND THE NEW PRODUCTION, REVEALING THE MAD RHAPSODIES OF MAKING A MUSICAL
10+ min |
March 2025
Archaeology
Ahead of Their Time
Excavations reveal the surprising sophistication of Copper Age villagers in southwestern Iran 6,000 years ago
9 min |
March/April 2025
Archaeology
THE SHELL SEEKERS
How hunter-gatherers in northern Florida facing an uncertain future revived a powerful symbol of their past
8 min |
March/April 2025
Archaeology
AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE REBORN
By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens
10+ min |
March/April 2025
Archaeology
UNEARTHING ANELUSIVE EMPIRE
Archaeologists have discovered rare evidence of an enlightened medieval dynasty that ruled much of Central Asia
10+ min |
March/April 2025
Archaeology
The Secrets of Porvenir
Remembering the victims of a 1918 massacre that shook a Texas border community
8 min |
March/April 2025
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ATLAS SHRUGGED
A brawny bodybuilder with a generous side: atypical Wall Street sage. But as CIO of Scott Minerd was an Guggenheim Partners, he oversaw billions for the firm and made millions for himself to him and His sudden death shocked spurred infighting over his $400 million estate even those closest
10+ min |
February 2025
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Behind THE PODIUM
As President Biden's barrier-breaking press secretary leaves the White House, she considers the ups and downs of being a first
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February 2025
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Girls, INTERRUPTED
Nestled in the Berkshires, with a pedigree dating back to 1898, MISS HALL'S SCHOOL appears to be a cocoon of safety and formative tutelage for its students, all of them young women. But for decades, an alleged sexual predator operated on campus. Now alumnae are speaking out in hopes of holding their former teacher-and the school-accountable
10+ min |
February 2025
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Cinema VERITÉ
At Art Basel Paris, Miu Miu reaffirms its support of women in film
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February 2025
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The Californians
Ensconced in their cozy Montecito mansion, Harry and Meghan are living the California dream, raising their own little prince and princess. By all accounts, the love is real. But five years after their break with the monarchy, their foray into moguldom has not always been a smooth ride
10+ min |
February 2025
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Coming HOMME
ROBERT PATTINSON has been the face of Dior Homme for more than a decade. With a brand-new fragrance campaign and a leading role in Mickey 17, the actor takes a moment to reflect
2 min |
February 2025
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The Maly Poppins of Mulholland Drive
When I was nine, Lara Flynn Boyle was my father's sweetheart- and my best friend
10+ min |
February 2025
Vanity Fair US
A KILLER VIEW
When an heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune noticed that a grove of majestic oaks on her coastal Maine property had died, she cast her suspicions on her neighbors uphill, summer residents who wanted a better view of Camden Harbor. The legal fight that ensued became a town drama that roils to this day
10+ min |
February 2025
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THE SQUATTER OF POINT DUME
SURE, LET A NEIGHBOR USE THE GUEST ROOM FOR A FEW NIGHTS. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? A LOT, AS A SERIES OF UNSUSPECTING RESIDENTS LEARNED AFTER ONE WOMAN ALLEGEDLY EXPLOITED CALIFORNIA'S TENANCY LAWS TO TURN CASUAL STAYS INTO PROTRACTED EVICTION WARS IN AN EXCLUSIVE MALIBU ENCLAVE
10+ min |
February 2025
Vanity Fair US
Red Hot
There's no one in Hollywood-or anywhere else, probably-like NATASHA LYONNE. Her wry, wrenching work in Poker Face, His Three Daughters, and Russian Doll has brought an indie favorite into the spotlight
5 min |
February 2025
Archaeology
ISLAND OF FREEDOM
Many of the enslaved Africans sent to Brazil beginning in 1549 were from what is now Angola, where one of the most widely spoken languages was Kimbundu.
1 min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
DANCING DAYS OF THE MAYA
In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions
10+ min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
Medieval England's Coveted Cargo
Archaeologists dive on a ship laden with marble bound for the kingdom's grandest cathedrals
10+ min |
January/February 2025
Archaeology
ORIGINS OF PERUVIAN RELIGION
While investigating looters' holes at the site of La Otra Banda in northern Peru's Zaña Valley, archaeologist Luis A. Muro Ynoñán of the Field Museum and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru spotted carved blocks around seven feet below the surface.
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