From Fleabag to Moneybags: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Cashes In
And other curious news about these strange days …
The Club That Welcomes Crashers
London’s Goldfish Club has been a tight brotherhood for years. Does Clint Eastwood want to join?
Blood in the Water
Elizabeth Holmes’s high-tech blood-testing company, Theranos, made her a paper billionaire—until she and it were alleged to be frauds. Here, the first in a six-part series tracing Holmes’s epic rise and fall
The Hamptons’ Secret Shame
Why do some of the most expensive homes in the country surround one of its most polluted lakes?
More Photos, Please!
Paparazzi got a terrible rap in the Diana and Britney years. So why are stars still seeking them out?
J.F.K. and the Radcliffe Girl
For the first time ever, one of the former president’s lovers tells her story
The Winklevoss Wrinkle
After years of post-Facebook conniving, the Winklevosses were finally on the road to redemption. Then they met another set of troublemaking twins
No Skin in the Game
Millennials and Gen Z–ers are all about empowerment and freeing the nipple. So why aren’t they embracing the nudism movement?
George Clooney, Kendall Jenner, and the Great Tequila Crisis
And other curious news about these strange days …
The View from Here
Al Gore says it’s not too late to prevent cataclysmic climate change, but is it too late for us to change?
Ooh La La!
Inside the bedroom of Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron …
Cruise Control
So much for your nether regions. Gwyneth Paltrow now wants to fiddle with your vacation!
Warding Off Evil
CNN’s star correspondent takes us to the front lines of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
Are You Ready for the “Genuinfluencers”?
And other curious news about these strange days …
What Makes TikTok Tick?
It starts with 75 million videos vying for your attention …
Kabul and Kaput
What do the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan and the White Lotus finale have in common? Plenty
The Big C
Indian businessman Lalit Modi allegedly name-dropped royals and public figures to con investors for his bogus cancer treatment
QAnon on the Volga
A growing number of Russian “revivalists” believe that the dissolution of the Soviet Union is a hoax
Fussy Eaters Are Bad in Bed
And other curious news about these strange days …
The Lady Vanishes
Charged with a fraudulent $1.3 million art deal, a millennial, private-jet-hopping grifter is now heading to prison
Locks, Sex, and Two Smoking Barrels
During shooting season in the U.K., the most coveted “birds” are bagged at night
He Said, She Said
The socialite who shot a police officer in Belize is out of jail and under siege
Black Robe, White Knuckles
Justice Breyer’s refusal to retire is not just annoying—it’s a harsh reminder that we always put our own interests above society’s
Stone-Cold Liar
Why did a respected British M.P. stage his own death? Two new biographies seek to offer an answer
