The View from Here
Ralph Fiennes and David Hare put the coronavirus on trial
Instascam
Kuwaiti prosecutors charge social-media influencers with money-laundering and boost their online popularity
The Ladies Doth Protest
Move over, Simone de Beauvoir! In France, a sex war not between men and women but between feminism’s Old and New Guards
Rolls-Royce Pulls a Dylan
With a modified Phantom V, the storied automobile goes electric
Members Only
A Belgian urologist lays out everything a man should know about shape, size, and “penisfulness”
Did You Hear About … ?
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
Booty Call
Paris robbers who stole $10.6 million worth of Kim Kardashian’s jewelry used her social media to map their heist
“If You Are in Denial About Climate Change, Come to California”
—Governor Gavin Newsom
Number of acres burned in all of 2019: 259,000
Number of acres burned to date in 2020: 3,400,000
(an amount greater than all of Connecticut; equal to 4,000 Central Parks)
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
Planes Have Changed While You Were Away
In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
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
Oedipus Vex
For father-and-son French philosophers, dishing is a revenge best served cold
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
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers
The star athlete and pageant winner who is shaking up politics in Anguilla
The Bird (and Wine) Men of Gorgona
On a remote island, inmates at Italy’s last penal colony produce one of the region’s most expensive wines and learn to care for animals