Lessons of the Spanish Flu
What can we learn from the 20th century’s deadliest virus outbreak?
Before #MeToo, There Was Natalie Wood
Pimped by her mother to Frank Sinatra at 15, raped at 16: harrowing new insights into the star’s life and death
We’re All Germophobes Now
And it’s time to end the handshake madness
Ailsa Maxwell
The economics student turned codebreaker was on duty when Germany’s unconditional surrender came over the wire in May of 1945
Sheikhing with Fear
The billionaire ruler of Dubai consorts with V.I.P.’s but persecutes and imprisons his wives and daughters
Barclay v. Barclay
In which the scions of a secretive British billionaire are accused of conspiring against his identical twin brother
The Princess Diaries
Narcissism, drug abuse, infidelity, and betrayal—Princess Margaret’s longtime lady-in-waiting writes a tell-all
Yiddish Envy
Why Catholic Poles are discovering Jewish roots they don’t even have
Disroyal Subjects
Harry and Meghan can’t get their Sussex Royal straight. Other Windsors are following in their missteps
Peregrine Pollen
Brilliant, curious, and gifted, the Oxford-born art-world character ran Sotheby Parke-Bernet
Model Land
A theme park for people obsessed with runways, photo shoots, makeovers, and red-carpet rides
Jeff Bezos Goes Green (Like Money)
Is his $10 billion pledge to combat the climate emergency a good thing—or part of his plan to control the world?
Murder in Fairfield County
The police reconstruct the day of Jennifer Dulos’s disappearance—and deconstruct the suspect’s alibis. About those garbage bags …
Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Harvey Weinstein?
After this week, his future is suitably bleak. But what about his ex-wife Georgina Chapman’s?
Money Talks, Bullshit Squawks
A former Deutsche Bank rookie tries to make sense of the business babble on the 44th floor
Murder in Fairfield County
May 24, 2019: Jennifer Dulos suddenly goes missing. The children are taken to Manhattan. And Fotis Dulos is a very busy man
Nell Gifford
Re-inventor of the English circus
Rhino-Plasty
Botswana takes a radical step to save its herd from poachers
Escape Artist
Inigo Philbrick is a Ponzi-scheming gallerist who got in over his head. Now he’s gone missing—with a pack of furious collectors on his trail
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The best landscape photographers can cast their lens on what has existed for centuries and convey something totally new. Here, images from around the world highlight the work of the 2019 International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition participants