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Oscar Season

Mad, sad, and legendarily bad, Oscar Levant was the showbiz answer to Oscar Wilde. After being forgotten for decades, is Hollywood’s greatest wit ready for his comeback?

Front Lines

The Greatest Showman

With a combined box office of $27 billion from his films, 73-year-old Samuel L. Jackson is the highest-grossing actor of all time—and maybe the most outspoken

Elena Ferrante, Tomb Raider

Climate Change

10 chilling predictions about global warming

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Trading Places

The little-known story of Otto Skorzeny, the Führer’s favorite commando leader turned Israeli spy

A Legend in the Making

An interview with the Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo about his timeless, timely new opera Book of Mountains & Seas

A New Russian Dissident Speaks Up

Why some Russians are choosing to stay and protest, rather than flee

The Making of Caitlyn

A former Vanity Fair editor tells how one of the biggest magazine stories ever—on Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn—came to be

Mortality and Mercy in Vienna

As Shakespeare’s “duke of dark corners” in Measure for Measure, Mark Rylance finds real life full of shocking surprises

Inside Job

All Things Dickens

Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

All About Andy

The former editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine on what Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series, The Andy Warhol Diaries, gets right and wrong

One Journalist Who Actually Stood Up to Trump

The truth about what happened the night The Donald got turned away from a Vanity Fair party

Head for Figures

The 96-Year Itch

At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

Donald Trump, Party Crasher

Dana Brown was plucked from his bartending post to work at Vanity Fair in its golden era. One of his jobs was manning the door at dinner parties—and keeping the uninvited out

Wild Westerners

The Best and Worst of Times

Second Sight

A New York Times Opinion writer comes to terms with a partial loss of vision

Brick and Mortar

Get off Zoom and into the office, with these songs—by the Isley Brothers, Willie Hutch, the Talking Heads, and more—as your soundtrack

Jayme Lawson

Since graduating from Juilliard, the young actress has gone from an Off Broadway performance to The Batman. Next up: a young Michelle Obama