Mel Gibson Wants Your Forgiveness
And other strange news about these curious days …
Allow Me to Intro Myself
Craving some quality expert advice? A savvy new start-up promises better living through videoconference
The View from Here
Will a billionaire yachtsman and former Republican become mayor of oh-so-woke Los Angeles?
Sins of the Father
What does Prince Andrew’s scandal mean for Britain’s hardest-working princesses, Beatrice and Eugenie?
A Publisher and a Gentleman
Jason Epstein, a co-founder of The New York Review of Books, always seemed to know everything—and be everywhere
“Not a Complete Clown”
The parties, Wallpapergate, the police investigation, the apology to the Queen—Boris Johnson tries to hold it all together
The View from Here
A cheerleader’s call to President Biden: How about less pomp and more pom-poms?
Bezos in Love
Is Lauren Sanchez a modern-day Marion Davies?
Keep Your Frenchies Close
In the wake of Lady Gaga’s French-bulldog kidnapping and several other pup snatchings, L.A.’s Frenchie owners fear their dogs will be next
Not All Is What It Seems to Be in Gwyneth’s Home
And other strange news about these curious days …
War of the Rosewood
How a Chinese status symbol became an environmental emergency
A Fawlty Tower of Billionaires
432 Park Avenue flipped a middle finger to New York’s elegant skyline. Now the hyper-rich who bought in, finding it riddled with shoddiness, are flipping the finger to the developers
The Way We Wordle
How to win at the Internet’s latest obsession—now a part of The New York Times
The View from Here
Why are our politics so divisive right now? Fifty years after Watergate, it still all goes back to Tricky Dick
The Rules Still Apply
In the 40 years since The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook encapsulated the British upper class, has anything really changed?
Madoff, the Sequel!
Meet Zach Horwitz, the part-time actor and millennial Madoff of Hollywood, who soaked suckers for $227 million
Talking Eurotrash
The hard-partying moneyed set, with New York roots dating back to Studio 54, traded the city for their old jet-set life in the spring of 2020. Will they come back?
Will Tom Cruise Go Too Far This Time?
And other strange news about these curious days …
The View from Here
Vladimir Putin watches TV and believes the lies he imposes on the Russian media about Ukraine and the United States. Who does he sound like?
Disappearing Act
The filmmaker behind Made You Look on why 2022 is poised to be the biggest year yet for art forgery and fraud
The View from Here
Remembering fashion’s caped crusader
Jody Gibson. Or, to Some of You Cads, “Babydol”
In the 90s, she ran Hollywood’s most elite—and, perhaps, most expensive—prostitution ring
In Paris, Breadlines Are Drawn
And other curious news about these strange days …
Seeing Green
The Cousteau family gets into the cannabis business
