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
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
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
Fearless Leader
After fighting to hold her employer accountable for a Kenyan town’s lead poisoning, Phyllis Omido is being called East Africa’s Erin Brockovich
The Morning After …
Just what might happen in America if there is no indisputable victor on Election Night?
Wild Wheels
On what would have been festival weekend, photographs by Scott London celebrate Burning Man’s most eccentric rides
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers
The star athlete and pageant winner who is shaking up politics in Anguilla
The World’s Most Amusing Naughty Person
As Sotheby’s prepares to auction the treasures of John Richardson, his friend remembers the art historian’s intense, inspiring, high-low life
The Da Vinci Coda
Best-selling author Dan Brown’s marriage unravels amid accusations of affairs and financial shenanigans worthy of, well, a very bad novel
A Vine Way to Improve Your Home
It’s the right kind of greenhouse effect
Those Naughty Evangelicals!
Jerry Falwell Jr. was very happy to bear witness as wife Becki ministered to the young pool attendant
The Bird (and Wine) Men of Gorgona
On a remote island, inmates at Italy’s last penal colony produce one of the region’s most expensive wines and learn to care for animals
The View from Here
(Here being Minsk)
The Official Wheels of Squaresville?
The new Citroën Ami looks like a Playmobil, but it could be the future of driving
Wreck the Halls
Juan Carlos of Spain’s former girlfriend is embroiled in a scandal surrounding her Shropshire, U.K., estate
Charlotte’s Web
How did a 28-year-old unknown actress bring down a titan of Hollywood—and become the center of the town’s scandals?
Platitudes and Gratitude
Are you fluent in Markle-speak? Take the test!
Bunga Bunga Is Back, Baby!
Nearing his mid-80s, former Italian P.M. and infamous womanizer Silvio Berlusconi is poised for a comeback (he also just tested positive for the coronavirus)
Lost at Sea
Searching for answers to her mother’s mysterious death, Natalie Wood’s daughter questions Robert Wagner
Hardened Criminality,
Part III
The allegations against Ron Jeremy are approaching a climax. Is he finally getting what he deserves?
