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Quirky news about these curious days

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

Demasking the Police

In Belarus, female protesters rip balaclavas off the faces of officers repressing opponents of the corrupt Lukashenko regime

The Way We Live Now

How Sir Terence Conran Turned Bauhaus into Your House

Diary Dearest

Savage memoir by the wife of a well-connected, upper-class British M.P. puts Conservatives’ knickers in a twist

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

Booty Call

Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist

R.I.P. RBG

Planes Have Changed While You Were Away

In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment

Oedipus Vex

For father-and-son French philosophers, dishing is a revenge best served cold

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news about these curious days

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

Call Girl

Talking dirty on an actual phone is the new sexting

The View from Here

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

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

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

The Official Wheels of Squaresville?

The new Citroën Ami looks like a Playmobil, but it could be the future of driving

A Vine Way to Improve Your Home

It’s the right kind of greenhouse effect

The Morning After …

Just what might happen in America if there is no indisputable victor on Election Night?

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 View from Here

(Here being Minsk)

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