Harry Hamilton
The British soldier who claimed he got lost and liberated Paris by accident
The Lonely Traveler
The tragic saga of an almost mythical figure from the Canadian wilderness
Viral Vigilantes
The latest cause of the Twitter rage mob? Social-media distancing
Week Two in the I.C.U.
Coronavirus cases are up. Vital supplies remain down
Old School, New Tricks
Eton opens its doors to the children of N.H.S. workers, finally giving the posh English boarding school a class worth bragging about
The Lyin’ King
Trump goes missing in the six weeks the pandemic takes to devastate his country
Celluloid Zeros
Has the coronavirus undermined our obsession with celebrity?
Appearances Are (Still) Everything
In this new work-from-home world, videoconferencing is king and your background contains multitudes
Missing in Action
Nearly four decades after the Falklands War, Richard Farrand is re-united with his service hat
Sex and the Single Meme
How did getting rejected become the key to social acceptance?
Father Nature
Sir David Attenborough’s new film shows humanity’s impact on Earth—and what we must do to save it
Albert Uderzo
Illustrator and co-creator of the walrus-moustached Asterix the Gaul, who represented “the revenge of the little guy”
Davos Satyricon
A new investigation reveals that the high-powered World Economic Forum is a sexist toga party in the Swiss Alps
“What’s His Story?”
An infectious-disease specialist treats his first coronavirus patient
Varsity Blues
Inside the annus horribilis of Christ Church—Oxford’s grandest (and most scandalous) college
Infantilized
Why are women paying $20,000 for what’s in the back seat? (Hint: it’s not the bag)
Off the Bottle
Among all the issues that the coronavirus raises, bottle blondes have another to add to the list: their highlights are quickly fading
Top Dog
In only his second attempt, Thomas Waerner trekked across nearly 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness to clinch dogsledding’s greatest prize
Doctor’s Orders
“Don’t think it is happening here and it can’t happen everywhere else”: Italy urges the world to learn from its own war with the coronavirus
Snack Attack!
The founders of a podcast for investment-savvy millennials talk as quickly as the markets move
Fiddling While Britain Burns
Boris Johnson’s laissez-faire view of the pandemic defies the world—and science
Ménage à Trop
We broke up in June, but our house still hasn’t sold. Now we can’t even go outside …
The Great Plague Diaries
Samuel Pepys’s 1665 account of life in London ravaged by bubonic plague is all too familiar in 2020
