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“Nipper” Read

In the 1960s, he took down the Kray twins, Swinging London’s most ruthless gangsters—and helped solve the Great Train Robbery

Marathoning in Place

Last week, more than 2,000 runners around the world took part in a live-streamed race, despite being in self-isolation. It was Zoom at its most literal—and thrilling

One Hand Washes the Other

To allay your coronavirus-induced angst, put the “social” in social distance

The View from Here

The Ladies’ Man Vanishes

Peter Beard, the world-famous photographer, adventurer, and playboy, goes missing in the Hamptons

Ivory Power

How genetic scientists at Berkeley raced to the labs and created a high-speed test for the coronavirus

Dirty Books for Clean Hands

Sales of “quarantine erotica” are booming, thanks to the coronavirus

Side Effects

Cataloguing some of the less consequential repercussions of the coronavirus

Wait, That Was True?

An American veteran confirms a British W.W. II soldier’s outlandish account of being the first to liberate Paris from the Nazis

Romeo Meets Juliet, with a Happy Ending

In Italy, two lovers start a romance across balconies

Week Two in the I.C.U.

Coronavirus cases are up. Vital supplies remain down

Viral Vigilantes

The latest cause of the Twitter rage mob? Social-media distancing

The View from Here

The Lyin’ King

Trump goes missing in the six weeks the pandemic takes to devastate his country

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 Lonely Traveler

The tragic saga of an almost mythical figure from the Canadian wilderness

Harry Hamilton

The British soldier who claimed he got lost and liberated Paris by accident

Beached Wales

Harry and Meghan, having left Britain with a stopover in Canada, go house hunting in celebrityville, U.S.A.

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

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