Up in Flames
As Burning Man goes virtual, a new documentary reveals what really goes down on the playa
Breeding Anxiety: Gay-Dad Stress Disorder
With their surrogate babies, Anderson Cooper and other wealthy men spark an identity crisis
Days of Whine and Rosés
The Hamptons put the “distance” in social distancing
Hot Priest
The young, handsome vicar charming the streets of London with Judy Collins’s “Amazing Grace”
So, Maybe You Should Toke with the Rabbi?
For weed-loving Jews, edibles are manna. But a kosher option? Not so easy
Record Scratch
A Hamptons charity event calling itself Safe & Sound was anything but. Working the turntables was Goldman Sachs C.E.O. David “DJ D-Sol” Solomon
Lily Cole
The British model who has shifted her focus from the fashion industry to environmental activism
Love Bites
An Ode to Shark Week
Flying Start
With help from Rolls-Royce, makers of the Concorde engines, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is at work on a jet that will cross the Atlantic in under two hours
Bee List
The planet’s most vital species has life lessons for these turbulent times
Worst. Bond Villain. Ever.
Beleaguered Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg disrupts Hawaii
Gondoliers’ Row
In Venice, a rule favoring the offspring of gondoliers sparked fury. Its defenders point to the importance of passing the tradition from father to son
Signifying Nothing
The coronavirus is not here to teach humanity a lesson. Beware of its self-proclaimed interpreters
The End or the Beginning?
Anne Applebaum says democracy is in its final days. The author says, Not so fast
An Outsize Burden
America’s Black elite deserve to be reckoned with on their own terms—not those created by the media
Money Pit
The sheikh who can’t remember how many villas and castles he owns
Sounding the Alarm
Thomas Chatterton Williams, an originator of Harper’s “Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” on cancel culture and the future of free speech
Voyage of the Damned
The harrowing inside story of the coronavirus-ravaged cruise ship with 2,500 passengers that no one wanted
Anatomy of a Catastrophe
Why we need a coronavirus commission, and who should—and shouldn’t—lead it
Capital Offenses
The latest battleground in the push for racial justice? The copydesk
Help Is Here?
In pandemic times, the most privileged New Yorkers find that dealing with domestic staff is especially fraught
Dutch Courage
At a protest in Amsterdam, flashbacks to a childhood shaped by the civil-rights movement
Monuments Men
Guess which side surrendered at Appomattox
Back to School
A nation of strivers under lockdown meets the à la carte subscription academy MasterClass
