The Blogger Who Brought Down a Government
Malta’s “one-woman WikiLeaks” believed she was on the trail of a massive conspiracy. She was right
Villa Envy
Foreigners can buy a village town house in Sicily for the price of an espresso. And get a tax cut
John Lorimer
A war hero who survived a seemingly hopeless mission to eliminate a Nazi warship with a midget submarine
Boris’s Bunny Boiler
The British P.M.’s onetime American friend Jennifer Arcuri wants to publish diaries detailing their trysts and telephone calls
Lannister’s Greatest Battle Yet
In a post-Thrones world, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has become a climate warrior
Shades of Blue:
Part II
A P.I. gets a call from a woman who saw him on TV. The job: Find her son’s killer. The police investigation fell apart eight years earlier. He takes the case …
Shades of Blue
Shots are fired outside an unsavory Tennessee bar, killing the proprietor—an off-duty cop. When the case goes cold, the cop’s grieving family takes matters into their own hands
The Runaway Groom
Britain’s most-wanted con man bewitched, bamboozled, and embezzled
The Speed Demons of Medellín
“Gravity biking,” a wild sport in which teenage boys hurtle down steep streets on bicycles at 70 m.p.h., is taking over Colombia
Birds Are Losing the Climate Fight
Global warming causes some species to become smaller
Ars Longa, Bullshit Longer
How we are fooled by pretentious titles on art
Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa?
(And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)
Saving Whales Is More Important than Planting Trees
Restoring them to their pre-hunting numbers could capture 1.7 billion tons of CO2 annually
Mein Campf!
The scandalous Hitler-diaries fiasco nearly brought down three major news organizations
Far-Left = Left Out
The collapse of Labour is a stark reminder of what will go wrong when a party (that’s you, Democrats) puts ideological purity above people and pragmatism
“How Do I Sew a Button On?”
For Gen Z: the hottest college trend? “Adulting” classes, where kids learn skills Mommy and Daddy forgot to teach them
Lucette Destouches
Céline’s muse tended to the author’s rather complicated legacy during 58 years of widowhood
Our Own Titanic Moment
To visualize the stakes of the climate emergency, think about the fabled ship: dangerously little time remains to correct course
An Open-and-Shut Case
Grand larceny and the secret of the spying oysters
Instagrinch
All she wants for Christmas is for you to stop sharing. Now
It’s a Wonderful Strife
Brits are battling over which is better: a department store’s costly Christmas ad or a modest one for a small family-owned shop. Vote here to settle the dispute
The Man Who Played with Fire
The curious moral trajectory of David Boies