Holy Terror
The cardinal in charge of vetting saints is fired over charges that he embezzled Vatican funds meant for the poor
Africa Rising
Harvard? Yale? Princeton? A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya’s top high-school students and connecting them with America’s most competitive universities
No Spring Chickens
Women—most of them single and nearing their mid-30s—are rushing to freeze their eggs as the coronavirus makes finding a partner more difficult
The View from Here
Infectious, on steroids, and in denial, Trump rages against reality as fate smiles and says, “You’re welcome”
Hugging My Pillow
A day in the Notting Hill life of the great British actor
La Dolce Vita dei Media
Is Gianni Agnelli’s grandson taking a page from Jeff Bezos?
California Girl
Ann Getty was a stunning bi-coastal socialite who rescued Grove Press, the radically chic publisher of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Samuel Beckett, because she loved to read
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
A Whale of a Good-Bye
Scientists have deciphered the songs blue whales sing to each other before they migrate
Trouble in Berlin
The ultra-liberal Berlin Film Festival faces criticism as its founder is revealed to have been a member of the Nazi Party
Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Suits Yourself
A British court keeps rejecting Meghan’s pre-trial arguments in a privacy case that could cost her more than $2.3 million
The View from Here
It’s time for de Blasio to step up—and Bloomberg to pony up—to save New York City. Before it’s too late
“Off with Their Euros!”
Welcome to Royalist theme park Puy du Fou, the least woke place in France
Take a Right at the Second Cloud
After 50 years, is one man’s dream of flying cars closer to reality?
Tempest in a Teacup
The author of a naughty tell-all memoir is driven into hiding while le tout London wonders what on earth Sasha Swire was thinking
Whatever You Say, Sir!
Trust in the media is as low as the president’s approval rating. Here are the Top 10 media remora of the Trump era
Toulouse-Lautrec’s Family Is Shortchanged
The artist’s 91-year-old great-grandniece gets grifted out of the château
Is Serge Gainsbourg #Annulé?
The French intelligentsia now see him as Harvey Weinstein in dirty denim
The View from Here
Read ’em and weep: all the president’s biographers find different ways to paint the same horrifying portrait
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
Vick Hope
The rising star in British radio and television brings a focus on diversity and mental health
Tattle Tales
What I know about the Tory wives titillating London with their deliciously disloyal tell-alls
