As calamitous a year as 2019 was for pretty much everything else in the world, it could be fairly said that it was a decent season for the film business. ...

I never wanted Jennifer out of the way.—Fotis DulosThe moves made by Fotis Dulos on May 24, 2019, would have seemed nonsensical to any observer other than an omniscient narrator, the Devil, or God.He woke...

The night before Prince Harry boarded a plane to join his wife and child in Canadian exile, he chose to spend his last hours in the company of relative strangers at a fundraising dinner for...

The British class system as we know it is dying. Where once people could identify themselves with absolute certainty as upper-, middle-, or working-class, now everyone has squished together to form a woolly central nebula.Local...

Pity the Nation(After Kahlil Gibran)Pity the nation whose people are sheepAnd whose shepherds mislead themPity the nation whose leaders are liarsWhose sages are silencedAnd whose bigots haunt the airwavesPity the nation that raises not its...

For 3,800 years the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza was the largest man-made structure in the world, built as a monument to just one man.Modern Egyptian builders are now hoping to set another construction...

American Gigolo, about high-class stud and phallic martyr Julian Kaye, who bestows orgasms upon the love-starved matrons of Beverly Hills the way Jesus bestowed loaves and fishes upon the starve-starved multitudes of Bethsaida, turned 40...

An array of plastic crunched underfoot as Mattie Mae Larson walked down Kamilo Beach. Toothbrushes, a plastic broom, a leaking bottle, the back of a TV.Larson used to come to this remote stretch of Hawaiian...

In 1999, Time magazine declared Levi’s 501s the “best” fashion item of the 20th century, narrowly edging out the miniskirt and little black dress. Inextricably linked to the romance of the cowboy and the great...

It was Sunday night over a roast chicken that my friend Alice Bell — 27, ex-Vogue fashion assistant and resident astrologer for the magazine — pulled out her iPhone and demanded three pieces of information...

INT. MAGNUSSON’S BAR - NIGHTROY (V.O.)Edmonton was the biggest town in the lumber industry in the 80s … and no one was bigger in lumber than me, Roy MacDonald.A tracking shot of ROY MACDONALD (Ryan...

In the old days, when divas of both sexes swanned from continent to continent by glamorous ocean liner, they would hold court in an operatic capital for months or a whole season at a time,...

Basketball as we know it began in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, “but its real history is a New York story,” writes Whitney W. Donhauser in the foreword to a book of photographs whose publication accompanies...

It’s hard to think of anyone who more fully embodies the French-girl aesthetic than Caroline de Maigret, the model and music producer who in 2014 co-wrote How to Be a Parisian Wherever You Are. Now...

In my newsroom days, when a reporter had one of those occasional stories that topped anything a novelist or screenwriter might invent, he was encouraged to “Get out of its way.”That is, Just tell it....

Given some of the hysterical writing about Russia over the past few years, one might expect a visit to Moscow to be like the experience of being kidnapped and dropped on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang:...

In the 1920s, the French Riviera was a glamorous secret: a haven for Americans escaping Prohibition and a particularly Anglophone summer idyll (the French went in the winter). In Chanel’s Riviera, Anne de Courcy’s focus...

Just in case you worry that we are running out of things to worry about, Fred Kaplan’s lively and chilling account of how the White House and the Pentagon have handled (and nearly mishandled) the...

Galileo Galilei was vacationing in Venice on the chill night of May 11, 1606, when Pope Paul V excommunicated the city’s entire government. As further punishment for its militancy abroad, Venice was placed under interdict,...

What does the information we unwittingly share on the Internet say about us? Elizabeth Woodward, a producer of the Netflix documentary The Great Hack, spent the last two years exploring this question. “Data is recordable...

When Guy Arnold was asked at a party what he was going to do when he left Oxford University, he drew languidly on a cigarette while his eyes fell on a map of the world...

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As the globe-trotting president of Net-a-Porter and Mr. Porter, Alison Loehnis spends her days—and many evenings—surrounded by the best clothes, accessories, and beauty potions on the planet. Loehnis, who joined Net-a-Porter in 2007, has been...