Melania by Night
As Rome burns and Trump tweets, his wife stays up late reading gossip about Vogue’s Anna Wintour
Sussex Fatigue
Meghan and Harry are making the British yearn for the Queen Mum
The Southern Heroine
Charismatic, witty, and determined, Marguerite Littman was a moving force in the early fight against AIDS and counted David Hockney, Bianca Jagger, and Princess Diana among her closest friends
Scandale à Paris
The millennial French influencer Léna Mahfouf, whose new book is outselling classics, earns the ire of the Parisian intelligentsia
Holy Terror
The cardinal in charge of vetting saints is fired over charges that he embezzled Vatican funds meant for the poor
New York’s Hottest “It Girl”? Hunter Biden
Nothing gets the Cool Kids’ respect like some topless, cracked-out photos
The Art of the Deal in the U.K.
In London, Trump angles for a 999-year lease
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Did a Russian Oligarch Get Snookered by a Rothschild Banker?
Sergey Bogdanchikov ran one of the world’s biggest oil companies. Then he fell under the spell of the Rothschild name
The View from Here
At The New York Times, are privileged white males playing the race card?
Kind Hearts and a Baronet?
What happens when an eccentric 74-year-old British aristocrat looks for someone to pay him $23,000 to live with him?
Into Thin Air
Buddhist and bon vivant Ang Rita Sherpa—known as “the Snow Leopard”—led first-class expeditions (and an elusive life)
Plastic-Eating “Super-Enzyme” Spawned in Lab!
Will nature be able to clean up our mess?
Africa Rising
Harvard? Yale? Princeton? A nonprofit program is recruiting Kenya’s top high-school students and connecting them with America’s most competitive universities
No Spring Chickens
Women—most of them single and nearing their mid-30s—are rushing to freeze their eggs as the coronavirus makes finding a partner more difficult
The View from Here
Infectious, on steroids, and in denial, Trump rages against reality as fate smiles and says, “You’re welcome”
A Whale of a Good-Bye
Scientists have deciphered the songs blue whales sing to each other before they migrate
La Dolce Vita dei Media
Is Gianni Agnelli’s grandson taking a page from Jeff Bezos?
California Girl
Ann Getty was a stunning bi-coastal socialite who rescued Grove Press, the radically chic publisher of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Samuel Beckett, because she loved to read
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
Hugging My Pillow
A day in the Notting Hill life of the great British actor
Trouble in Berlin
The ultra-liberal Berlin Film Festival faces criticism as its founder is revealed to have been a member of the Nazi Party
Party Like It’s 1929!
Americans are finagling their way around international-travel bans and decamping to Europe, where the living is (comparatively) easy
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
