The Woman in Black
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unanswerable power of argument
“If You Are in Denial About Climate Change, Come to California”
—Governor Gavin Newsom
Number of acres burned in all of 2019: 259,000
Number of acres burned to date in 2020: 3,400,000
(an amount greater than all of Connecticut; equal to 4,000 Central Parks)
Instascam
Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity
The Way We Live Now
How Sir Terence Conran Turned Bauhaus into Your House
Demasking the Police
In Belarus, female protesters rip balaclavas off the faces of officers repressing opponents of the corrupt Lukashenko regime
Best Served Cold
Barbara Amiel, wife of disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black, is out for blood with a memoir taking aim at her high-society friends
The Ladies Doth Protest
Move over, Simone de Beauvoir! In France, a sex war not between men and women but between feminism’s Old and New Guards
Members Only
A Belgian urologist lays out everything a man should know about shape, size, and “penisfulness”
Diary Dearest
Savage memoir by the wife of a well-connected, upper-class British M.P. puts Conservatives’ knickers in a twist
Rolls-Royce Pulls a Dylan
With a modified Phantom V, the storied automobile goes electric
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
It’s Just Not Cricket
The world’s snootiest sporting club is being rocked by revolt from within
The View from Here
Ralph Fiennes and David Hare put the coronavirus on trial
Booty Call
Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist
When Harry Met Netflix
On the heels of Harry and Meghan’s multi-million-dollar Hollywood deal, we imagine what’s behind the grasping. And what’s to come
Planes Have Changed While You Were Away
In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment
Call Girl
Talking dirty on an actual phone is the new sexting
She Changed the Rhythm of American Life
Part of an all-female, mixed-race swing band in 1940s America, Helen Jones Woods dodged the Klan to make a joyful—and powerful—noise
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
Oedipus Vex
For father-and-son French philosophers, dishing is a revenge best served cold
Mob Rule
During the plague years, Milan’s criminal gangs controlled the streets. When cholera hit, they disposed of corpses. Now, Roberto Saviano says the mafia is behind a major coronavirus response
The Official Wheels of Squaresville?
The new Citroën Ami looks like a Playmobil, but it could be the future of driving