Imperial Japan’s Last Casualty
General Shiba Goro did not fight in World War II, but he chose to die for it
Village Idiot
A dot-com entrepreneur is reviled as he tries to restore his ancestral village in Devon in the style of Silicon Valley
Outsourcing the Holidays
Why go to the trouble of decorating when these enterprising entrepreneurs will handle the heavy lifting?
Sisters in Arms
Why are young British women volunteering to fight and die alongside the Kurds?
Impostor Syndrome
German businessman who posed as an anti-Nazi martyr was actually a Hitler loyalist and wartime profiteer
Last Call
In his new venture, Exit Here, Oliver Peyton brings his velvet-rope, nightlife-impresario approach to the funeral business
The Sex App
Ferly, the digital platform that tells you everything you wanted to know about libido and “self-pleasure”
Why Do Rich People Love to Shoplift?
A week before he was busted for petty larceny at Kmart, a man had paid $8 million for an island in the Florida Keys
“What Ho, Sergei!”
Rich Russian family advertises for a butler who can shimmer like Jeeves
Unbuild the Wall
The night they drove old Deutschland down
Marking Their Territory
Thanks to the tech crowd, San Francisco is now home to more dogs than children—and the city is forever changed
Speak, Memory. Faster!
Are you smart enough to compete in the European Quizzing Championships?
The #MeToo Minefield
In The Problem with Everything, Meghan Daum finds herself caught in the middle of the culture wars
The Playing Fields of Money
The Swiss school that charges around $130,000 a year to raise the future global elite
Hiding in Plain Sight
A trove of Hitler artifacts in Argentina shows just how many Nazis escaped justice after the war
Me and My Shadow
Lost without the Instagram Following tab
From Russia with Something Other than Love
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his nation’s richest man, spent a decade in a Siberian prison. Still, he has a great laugh
Boris Johnson’s Ishtar
The British prime minister’s hitherto undiscovered and very un-woke movie treatment
Dirndl Power
Behind the beer-soaked scenes at the corporate-networking extravaganza known as Oktoberfest
She Worked Hard for His Money
Will Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 lead him to prison?
Take the Money
Protest criminality, not charity, says the former head of Lincoln Center
My Month of Rest and Relaxation
In Asia’s posh postpartum hotels, new mothers are pampered while newborns are sequestered in the nursery
Lady Hale, Boris Johnson, and the Spider Brooch
The president of the U.K.’s Supreme Court tells the prime minister what’s what, and creates a legion of fans
The Handmaid’s Kale
Western feminists make the misogyny in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments all about them