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Issue No. 56
August 8, 2020
Another Juan Bites the Dust

Joseph Bullmore recounts the corrupt and depraved reign—and fall—of Spain’s King Juan Carlos

Suits and Scandal

Stuart Heritage reveals why an ex-girlfriend of Prince Andrew’s is suing Barclays for $2 billion

What Lies Beneath

Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger on the Scandi mystery of the young female reporter and the eccentric Danish inventor

Issue No. 55
August 1, 2020
Epstein

Vassi Chamberlain reveals the rarely seen side of her sometimes friend, Ghislaine Maxwell

Days of Whine and Roses

Stuart Heritage on Meghan and Harry’s latest salvos against his family

Italians, Doing It Better

Elena Clavarino dishes on Italy’s super-chic, super-secretive, and super-low-key seaside retreat

Issue No. 54
July 25, 2020
Viral Thinking

Bernard-Henri Lévy takes on the pandemic appeasers

Off the Depp End

Stuart Heritage recaps this summer’s most twisted soap opera: the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial unfolding in London

Counting His Marbles

Henry Alford reveals a new “very hard” cognitive test Trump might “ace”

Issue No. 53
July 18, 2020
The 153

Ash Carter connects with Thomas Chatterton Williams on the subject of the Harper’s letter

Odd Bedfellows

Rosie Kinchen explains just what Bill Clinton got out of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Hands-On Intel

Sheila Weller reveals what Prince Andrew’s massage therapist witnessed on Jeffrey Epstein’s secretive island

Issue No. 52
July 11, 2020
Epstein’s Enabler

Ben Macintyre explains how Ghislaine Maxwell went from charming schoolgirl to devilish madam

Dangerous Liaisons

Mark Bowden asks whether Truman Capote had a deeper attraction to the In Cold Blood killers

Acquired Tastes

Errol Morris serves up a tasty tale about one of his favorite pleasures: hot-dog lasagna

Issue No. 51
July 4, 2020
California Scheming

Stuart Heritage looks at Harry and Meghan’s new life Hollywood. Did someone say, “Fresh prince of Bel Air”?

Criminal Mind

Edward Jay Epstein recounts a very, very strange afternoon tea with Jeffrey Epstein (no relation)

Social Influencer

Amelia Lester spins the twisted tale of the grifter to the Goopsters

Issue No. 50
June 27, 2020
Cold Warrior

Ravi Somaiya reveals how white nationalists may have assassinated a beloved U.N. secretary-general

Monster Mash

Phoebe Eaton asks just what motivated Georgina Chapman to marry Harvey Weinstein

The Upper Hand

Hannah Seligson looks at why New York’s wealthiest are now at the mercy of their staff

Issue No. 49
June 20, 2020
Cain and Enabled

In Part II of her Harvey Weinstein investigation, Phoebe Eaton asks what role his brother played in his rise—and demise

Monuments Men

Douglas McGrath argues for a reset in how we name our military installations and remember racist generals

William and Kate

Vassi Chamberlain reveals why the British press are wrong about the Duchess of Cambridge’s family

Issue No. 48
June 13, 2020
criminal minds

We know what Harvey Weinstein did. But Phoebe Eaton says the real question is why he committed those horrible acts

Tall in the Saddle

Katie Nodjimbadem rides with black cowboys honoring George Floyd

Thought Leader

William D. Cohan talks to Scott Galloway, the new king of all media

Issue No. 47
June 6, 2020
That was the week that was

Graydon Carter asks if a single image can sum up this moment in the American saga

Bearing witness

Artists across the U.S. react to George Floyd’s killing

Ice Capades

The cunning $4.5 million London jewel heist that channeled Ocean’s 11

Issue No. 46
May 30, 2020
Vlad to Worse

As the coronavirus ravages Russia, Putin the germophobe cowers in his palace

Royal Deadbeat

For a broke Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein was the lender of last resort

A New Way Forward?

The AIR MAIL/Shreeji newsstand in London is a breath of fresh air

Issue No. 45
May 23, 2020
Working Stiff

How “work from home” snuffs out sex between co-workers

From FOMO to FOGO

Polly Vernon says the end of lockdown brings the return of one of the most dreaded parts of modern life

Class Wars

When elite schools run up against parents who don’t want to pay $50,000 for Zoom Academy

Issue No. 44
May 16, 2020
Dancing On Others’ Graves

Screw lockdown. New York club kids move the parties underground

No Friend of Bill’s

The Hillary book everyone is talking about

Hollywood Cliff-hanger

Are the walls starting to talk at the Chateau Marmont?

Issue No. 43
May 9, 2020
The Coronavirus Chronicles

One hundred days that shook the world (but not Trump)

True Crime

How were sexual predators allowed to work at an elite summer camp for boys?

Royal Spongers

Harry and Meghan mooch in L.A.; Andy and Fergie going downhill in Verbier

Issue No. 42
May 2, 2020
Social-Media Distancing

Cazzie David on the fresh hell of Instagram during lockdown

Ladies First

Alessandra Stanley has a suggestion for Joe Biden. It involves a tiara

Sussexession: The Dramedy

In this week’s episode, Meghan tortures her father in court

Issue No. 41
April 25, 2020
Upper-Class Warfare

William D. Cohan reports from the front lines as scandal rocks one of New York’s most elite schools

Sussexession, Season One

A hundred days of Megxit scandals, snubs, and screwups

Billionaires Behaving Badly

What happens when a tax exile hits up the government for a coronavirus bailout?

Issue No. 40
April 18, 2020
High Crimes

What’s fueling Trump’s increasingly erratic press conferences?

Supreme Meddling

The biggest threat to America’s democracy is not the pandemic, according to Roger Parloff

Bugging Out

Maybe the author of Contagion knows something about our current virus that we don’t

Issue No. 39
April 11, 2020
Code Breakers

Walter Isaacson takes us inside Silicon Valley’s race to create a virus test and vaccine

Sexual Healing?

A swelling of sales in coronavirus erotica for the housebound

Who’s Zoomin’ Who?

George Kalogerakis on how the non-Zoom “Zoombombed” the real Zoom

Issue No. 38
April 4, 2020
Kvetcher in the Rye

Sam Wasson read Woody Allen’s memoir so you don’t have to

Dithering Heights

Trump and the six-week delay that has already cost the lives of thousands

Yeast Inflection

Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? Ashley Baker dusts off the flour

Issue No. 37
March 28, 2020
SWANKY PANKY

Stuart Heritage explains why Davos, Alpine clubhouse of the rich and powerful, is sexual-harassment central

NATURE CALLS

His new documentary is alarming, but David Attenborough still holds out some hope for planet Earth

BRIDESHEAD RESUMED

School (with a Predilection) for Scandal: Joseph Bullmore studies the trouble at Oxford these days

Issue No. 36
March 21, 2020
PANDEMICS

350 years before the coronavirus, take a Pepys at a real plague diary. Max Hastings did

SMALL CONSOLATIONS

Boris Johnson’s handling of the pandemic is only the second worst we’re seeing, notes Stuart Heritage. The first is closer to home

MÉNAGE À TROP

Try lockdown life with your recent ex! Alexandra Marshall reports from her living-room front line

Issue No. 35
March 14, 2020
MURDER MYSTERY, PART VI

Rich Cohen unravels the tragic Jennifer Dulos saga—and bumps into two #MeToo figures

PANDEMICS IN THE NEWS

It’s always been a germophobe’s world, Cazzie David points out, and now we’re all finally living in it

DYNASTIC DYSFUNCTION I

Separated at birth—and by lawyers: billionaire twins go to war, and Joseph Bullmore reports

Issue No. 34
March 7, 2020
MURDER MYSTERY, PART V

Rich Cohen reports on how prime suspect Fotis Dulos focused, unconvincingly, on an alibi

THE LONG GOOD-BYE

Yet more jockeying in the Megxit drama. Stuart Heritage rummages through the wreckage

ADD TO CART

Tatiana Schlossberg wonders how Jeff Bezos squares his $10 billion climate pledge with, well, Amazon

Issue No. 33
February 29, 2020
MURDER MYSTERY, PART IV

The day Jennifer Dulos disappeared, her husband got busy getting rid of the bloody evidence. Rich Cohen reports

DISNEY SUPERHERO

He’s responsible for Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, and more. Peter Stevenson on the man behind the magic

DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND

Stuart Heritage explores the dark side of the television phenomenon Love Island

Issue No. 32
February 22, 2020
MURDER MYSTERY, PART III

It was the divorce from hell, writes Rich Cohen about the Dulos case. Then things went downhill fast

ON THE LAM

A young art dealer is missing, leaving behind a trail of angry collectors in London and New York. Joseph Bullmore investigates

ANOTHER ROYAL MESS, AND ANOTHER

More divorces. The Sussexes de-branded. Andrew, pedophile-phile. Stuart Heritage gathers the unappetizing threads

Issue No. 31
February 15, 2020
MURDER MYSTERY PART II

Rich Cohen reports on trouble in a WASP paradise: one Dulos starts an affair; the other fears for her life

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

Roger Parloff on a threat to the First Amendment. A new ruling could send whistleblowers and reporters to jail

APPSTINENCE

Cazzie David abandons her smartphone. For a week. And lives to tell

Issue No. 30
February 8, 2020
Murder in Fairfield County

Eight months after Jennifer Farber disappeared, her husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with the murder. Soon Dulos, too, was dead. Rich Cohen tells the harrowing tale

The Makings of a Royal Mess

Did Meghan start a palace rebellion? Or was Harry already plotting his escape? Vassi Chamberlain uncovers what lured Harry to Hollywood

Naked Ambition

Emily Ratajkowski calls herself a feminist. But Evgenia Peretz wonders, does parading around half (and sometimes fully) naked really help her agenda?