The High-Society Inventor
Peter Florjancic’s life may have been his best creation
Did You Hear About … ?
Curious news about these strange days
Divorce, Oligarch-Style
The ex-wife of an oil-and-gas baron goes to the mattresses to get hold of her $600 million settlement
Shot in the Dark
Will public shaming deter the 1 percent from cutting the line for the coronavirus vaccine?
No Secret Handshake Required
The Freemasons go public (and put a price tag on it)
The Duke of Substance
Prince Harry offers a cure for climate change from his nine-bedroom mansion, in California
The Politics of Bad Behavior
Melania, Ivanka, and the double standards of the single-minded
Battle of the Sexists
Arguments over free speech dominate at Eton and Cambridge
The View from Here
Trump, his enablers, and his Florida bolt-hole all have dark precedents
A Tech Tycoon’s Prison Tweets
Before the anti-virus-software guru John McAfee died in prison in Spain, he was a social media animal
Isa Stoppi
She was Italy’s first great model. Richard Avedon called her “the most beautiful woman in the world”
Psst! A Special Roundup of Scandal and Crime
From The Orgasm Cult to Ghislaine Maxwell’s travails, we’ve got it all
Crystal Clearing
London private-equity bigwigs are enlisting crystal healers to tell their wives they want a divorce—and paying them hefty sums to do it
The Last Place on Earth You Can Escape the Pandemic
Antarctica is the only virus-free continent. But will that last?
Little Feat
In this New York City miniaturist’s workshop, it’s the pictures that got small—the classic-movie props, that is
The View from Here
The fun of fashion-shaming
Forget 5G. 6G Will Blow Your Mind
Because the 6 might as well stand for “sixth sense”
Mayor Mike 2.0?
Is Raymond McGuire—Wall Street player and political novice—the man to replace de Blasio? The big-bucks elite think so
Did You Hear About … ?
The new toy for billionaires, and more quirky news for these curious days
Breathing Fire
Millennials are taking the coronavirus particularly badly. Is their discontent rooted in something deeper than not being able to party?
What Lies Beneath …
A town house collapses in Chelsea as the underground lairs of some of London’s wealthiest residents may be cracking under the pressure
Did You Hear
About … ?
Stanley Kubrick’s unfulfilled dream, and more quirky news for these curious days
The View from Here
The fountain of age
Three-Ways, U.K.-Style
It’s Netflix/Palace vs. No. 10 for this week’s biggest ratings
