“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)
The Way We Live Now
How Sir Terence Conran Turned Bauhaus into Your House
Demasking the Police
In Belarus, female protesters rip balaclavas off the faces of officers repressing opponents of the corrupt Lukashenko regime
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
Diary Dearest
Savage memoir by the wife of a well-connected, upper-class British M.P. puts Conservatives’ knickers in a twist
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
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
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
Planes Have Changed While You Were Away
In the Flying-V, passengers will sit in the wings. It’s also better for the environment
Call Girl
Talking dirty on an actual phone is the new sexting
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
Did You Hear About … ?
Quirky news about these curious days
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
A Vine Way to Improve Your Home
It’s the right kind of greenhouse effect
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 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
Those Naughty Evangelicals!
Jerry Falwell Jr. was very happy to bear witness as wife Becki ministered to the young pool attendant
The View from Here
(Here being Minsk)
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 Morning After …
Just what might happen in America if there is no indisputable victor on Election Night?
