Dispatch from Klooga
How a young woman discovered her grandfather’s harrowing Holocaust-survival story, memorialized in a forgotten Life-magazine report by the famed war correspondent John Hersey
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk wants your financial information, Eric Adams suffers yet more humiliation, and Donald Trump spins lies without hesitation
Ukraine Upended
Ukrainians who endured three years of invasion, bombardments, and devastation are packing up to escape a Trump-brokered peace
The Apostate
Trump’s dead-eyed hatchet man in the Justice Department, Emil Bove III, has attacked the very office that taught him the law—and betrayed the ideals he once espoused
Sisters in Arms
A new play about the early days of women’s lib asks: Where does the movement go from here?
A Broke Hallelujah
In the latest twist in a lengthy legal battle, Leonard Cohen’s children have accused their father’s former lawyer of siphoning millions from the singer’s estate
The Attention-Whore Index
Elon Musk is selling the farm, J. D. Vance is twisting arms, and for Kanye West, the Third Reich’s the charm
Every Woman’s Romantasy
What does the explosive popularity of books by Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros say about female desire today?
The View from Here
Trump’s dismantling of the Justice Department’s anti-corruption units is a going-out-of-business bonanza for dictators, kleptocrats, crooked officials, and organized-crime leaders
In Bad Faith
The only stone left unturned in the Baldoni-Lively saga seems to be Baldoni’s Baha’i faith, an obscure religion that touts unity and forbids backbiting
Stranded in NewSpace
It’s not just the fate of two marooned astronauts that’s at stake—it’s the future of interstellar travel
Penny Ante
Like so many other of Trump’s diktats aimed at crushing easy targets, his plan to be penny-wise is pound-foolish
Trump’s Mini-Me
Paolo Zampolli, the former modeling agent who introduced Melania to Donald, has stayed in the Mar-a-Lago circle, anticipating and echoing the president’s foreign-policy views
Against All Odds
From ESPN and the Athletic to Bill Simmons and Dave Portnoy, sports media is fueling the online-gambling boom—and becoming utterly reliant upon it
Tommy Supreme and the Blitz
Tom Goldstein was a star in arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He was also one of the world’s highest-rolling—and most reckless—poker players. Then his worlds collided
The Attention-Whore Index
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t like your accent, Donald Trump doesn’t like your color, and Russell Brand doesn’t like your sexual-abuse allegations
Bridget Jones’s Substack
As the frazzled heroine returns to the cinema, we couldn’t help but wonder: How would Bridget Jones navigate Gen Z’s New York City?
The Muse Who Became a Sage
Marianne Faithfull inspired some of the greatest songs of the 60s and left her own indelible mark on the music of Brecht and Bob Dylan alike
It Never Ends with Them
As their frenzied mudslinging intensifies, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seem to share a single goal: mutually assured destruction
The Naked Truth
In 2003, my novel about a woman who attends an awards show naked was dismissed as too far-fetched. A second Trump administration replaced fiction with fact—and laid bare American misogyny
The View from Here
Trump’s model of political leadership? A cigar-chomping, baseball-bat-swinging, mobbed-up Brooklyn boss
The Pelosi Effect
A trend for following the stock-buying habits of U.S. members of Congress has left some copycat investors 800 percent up
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
A 1917 document grants Britain the right of first refusal to buy Greenland—casting a shadow over Donald Trump’s grand plans for the ice sheet
