How to Thrash Your Family at Scrabble
Tips and tactics that will make you Master of the Board in these lockdown days
Where Bad Behavior Is Always in Season
In the Hamptons, the only thing not on lockdown is New Yorkers’ sense of entitlement
A French Kiss-Off
Will the double cheek kiss be France’s next coronavirus casualty?
Unholy Virgin
Richard Branson is Trump in Cool Britannia clothing
Ground Control to Captain Tom
How a 99-year-old World War II vet became England’s hottest pop idol
Imaginary Girlfriend
In Japan, holographic women are heralding the era of digisexuality
Egomania
Quarantine has changed a lot about the world, but when it comes to posting photos on Instagram, it’s still a narcissist’s game
Uprising, Interrupted
The pandemic forced global protest movements into lockdown. But how long until they bust out?
The $93 Billion Man
Bill Gates on the race for a vaccine, the need for cooperation across borders, and what he misses most under lockdown
History Repeats Itself
“We can really understand something of epic tragedy only when it becomes personal”: honoring the end of World War II in the middle of a pandemic
The Covidfefe Chronicles
You can’t spell “pandemic” without “me,” backward
Tress Test
As Paris tiptoes toward reopening, hundreds of its best-coiffed women are still suffering on the waiting list at David Mallett’s salon. Welcome to the new normal…
The Neuro-Degenerate’s Guide to Boxing
Faced with one of life’s great challenges, a writer finds solace in the sweet science
Doctors Without Choices
Why Russia is fighting the coronavirus like it’s 1943
Down and Out in the Hollywood Hills
Eyebrow-raising behavior is par for the course at the Chateau Marmont. But owner André Balazs’s handling of the lockdown is provoking winces
Unmasked Ball
Cocaine, ketamine, models, and music: New York City’s underground party scene carries on during the pandemic
Mr. Right
With prescient, gloomy pandemic reports, The New York Times’s wonky science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has become an unlikely sex symbol
Mount Everest Goes Red
During a global lockdown, Chinese scientists take over the world’s highest mountain
How About a Dose of Common Sense?
The anti-vax movement may derail a coronavirus recovery
2016 and All That
A very English take on Donald Trump
From FOMO to FOGO
What happens when social distancing gives way to the return of social commitments?
School’s Out For … Ever?
With distance learning as the new status quo, the most privileged New York parents are seeking alternative arrangements
Office Affairs
“Work from home” puts an end to Christmas-party high jinks and watercooler romances
Why Is No One Talking About Polio?
The disease infected thousands when it tore through the U.S. Sixty-five years later, we’re back to where we were pre-vaccine