Off the Rails
The famed Ian Allan Book & Model Shop in London, a favorite of railway enthusiasts, is the U.K.’s latest coronavirus casualty
Benched
A former Trump-appointed judge (of the Miss USA pageant) has some advice for Amy Coney Barrett
Scandale à Paris
The millennial French influencer Léna Mahfouf, whose new book is outselling classics, earns the ire of the Parisian intelligentsia
Kind Hearts and a Baronet?
What happens when an eccentric 74-year-old British aristocrat looks for someone to pay him $23,000 to live with him?
Africa Rising
Harvard? Yale? Princeton? A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya’s top high-school students and connecting them with America’s most competitive universities
No Spring Chickens
Women—most of them single and nearing their mid-30s—are rushing to freeze their eggs as the coronavirus makes finding a partner more difficult
Hugging My Pillow
A day in the Notting Hill life of the great British actor
Take a Right at the Second Cloud
After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?
Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
“Off with Their Euros!”
Welcome to Royalist theme park Puy du Fou, the least woke place in France
Whatever You Say, Sir!
Trust in the media is as low as the president’s approval rating. Here are the Top 10 media remora of the Trump era
Covid in Connecticut
What a difference six months make
Vick Hope
The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health
Boundless as the Sea
The Italian couple who fell in love across their balconies during the height of the coronavirus are finally united—and engaged
Instascam
Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity
It’s Just Not Cricket
The world’s snootiest sporting club is being rocked by revolt from within
Members Only
A Belgian urologist lays out everything a man should know about shape, size, and “penisfulness”
The Ladies Doth Protest
Move over, Simone de Beauvoir! In France, a sex war not between men and women but between feminism’s Old and New Guards
Call Girl
Talking dirty on an actual phone is the new sexting
Planes Have Changed While You Were Away
In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment
Mob Rule
During the plague years, Milan’s criminal gangs controlled the streets. When cholera hit, they disposed of corpses. Now, Roberto Saviano says the mafia is behind a major coronavirus response
Wild Wheels
On what would have been festival weekend, photographs by Scott London celebrate Burning Man’s most eccentric rides
The Official Wheels of Squaresville?
The new Citroën Ami looks like a Playmobil, but it could be the future of driving
Cocaine Blues
The white powder has become so ubiquitous among London’s middle class that it’s losing its edge
