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
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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
Sex Education
Two elite British universities—including Prince William’s alma mater—unravel amid horrific accusations of assault on campus
Magisterial Meghan
Prince Harry’s wife and master fires the lawyer who successfully defended Johnny Depp and picks his biggest rival to pursue her defamation suit
“The Best Eyes in the Business”
During the Swinging 60s, Valerie Askew ran the largest modeling agency in Europe and partied with the Beatles
Soldier of Misfortune
William Barr helps Michael Flynn leave a mess—and a man—behind
Covid in Connecticut
What a difference six months make
Boundless as the Sea
The Italian couple who fell in love across their balconies during the height of the coronavirus are finally united—and engaged
The Woman in Black
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unanswerable power of argument
Booty Call
Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist
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
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
Instascam
Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity
Diary Dearest
Savage memoir by the wife of a well-connected, upper-class British M.P. puts Conservatives’ knickers in a twist
“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)
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
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