Shot in the Dark
I was a lab rat for the new coronavirus vaccine
“A Bit of a Clever Dick”
Scottish actor-comedian John Sessions voiced Laurence Olivier, acted with Meryl Streep, and channeled Keith Richards
Depp Goes Down Swinging
Once Hollywood’s fêted heartthrob, Johnny Depp may never work again after this week’s High Court verdict in the U.K.
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news for these rather curious days
No One Spikes These Stories
How Substack became home to big-name journalists who felt “the Youngs” in newsrooms were putting wokeness ahead of important ideas
Did She Marry a He-Devil?
Fay Weldon’s life eerily imitates her fiction
Xi Marks the Spot
The coronavirus accelerated China’s rise, but the country’s future isn’t as certain as its president insists
The View from Here
Happy days are weird again
The King and They
Blinged-out Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is losing his God-like status as protesters march in the streets
Cruel Brittania
Why on earth does Boris Johnson want to tune out the BBC?
I, Coronavirus
Trump’s real running mate takes a stand
The View from Here
Be my guest: it’s really quite simple …
The Secret Histories
Collectors and voyeurs vie for other people’s diaries
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news for these rather curious days
The Biden Touch
He wears his heart where every Scranton native does: on his sleeve. Thank God
Off the Rails
The famed Ian Allan Book & Model Shop in London, a favorite of railway enthusiasts, is the U.K.’s latest coronavirus casualty
Vice Gets Squeezed
Shane Smith convinced Rupert Murdoch and Disney that his company was, as the kids say, the sh!t. Until it wasn’t. How did Vice blow it—and trash billions in valuation?
Melania by Night
As Rome burns and Trump tweets, his wife stays up late reading gossip about Vogue’s Anna Wintour
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
Sussex Fatigue
Meghan and Harry are making the British yearn for the Queen Mum
Benched
A former Trump-appointed judge (of the Miss USA pageant) has some advice for Amy Coney Barrett
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these rather curious days
The View from Here
Would you hire Donald Trump to work at your company?
Scandale à Paris
The millennial French influencer Léna Mahfouf, whose new book is outselling classics, earns the ire of the Parisian intelligentsia
