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…
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
May 4, 2020
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
Uprising, Interrupted The pandemic forced global protest movements into lockdown. But how long until they bust out?
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
Imaginary Girlfriend In Japan, holographic women are heralding the era of digisexuality
April 29, 2020
Ground Control to Captain Tom How a 99-year-old World War II vet became England’s hottest pop idol
A French Kiss-Off Will the double cheek kiss be France’s next coronavirus casualty?
April 23, 2020
Where Bad Behavior Is Always in Season In the Hamptons, the only thing not on lockdown is New Yorkers’ sense of entitlement
April 22, 2020
The Highest Office A former Trump intimate insists that Donald Trump is a known substance abuser. Why is no one listening?
More Side Effects Self-isolation then and now. A lot has changed since 1978—but some things haven’t
How to Thrash Your Family at Scrabble Tips and tactics that will make you Master of the Board in these lockdown days
Marathoning in Place Last week, more than 2,000 runners around the world took part in a live-streamed race, despite being in self-isolation. It was Zoom at its most literal—and thrilling
April 16, 2020
One Hand Washes the Other To allay your coronavirus-induced angst, put the “social” in social distance
April 15, 2020
Side Effects Cataloguing some of the less consequential repercussions of the coronavirus
Dirty Books for Clean Hands Sales of “quarantine erotica” are booming, thanks to the coronavirus
Ivory Power How genetic scientists at Berkeley raced to the labs and created a high-speed test for the coronavirus
Romeo Meets Juliet, with a Happy Ending In Italy, two lovers start a romance across balconies
April 8, 2020
Viral Vigilantes The latest cause of the Twitter rage mob? Social-media distancing
Old School, New Tricks Eton opens its doors to the children of N.H.S. workers, finally giving the posh English boarding school a class worth bragging about
The Lyin’ King Trump goes missing in the six weeks the pandemic takes to devastate his country
