Siegfried Meir
Taken to Auschwitz at eight, he turned his awful experience into a source of inspiration for others
Doctors Without Choices
Why Russia is fighting the coronavirus like it’s 1943
The King’s Leech
Prince Andrew reportedly watched a movie about his grandfather while having his feet rubbed by models; Harry and Meghan’s $18 million bolt-hole in Beverly Hills has a privacy breach
The Neuro-Degenerate’s Guide to Boxing
Faced with one of life’s great challenges, a writer finds solace in the sweet science
Tress Test
As Paris tiptoes toward reopening, hundreds of its best-coiffed women are still suffering on the waiting list at David Mallett’s salon. Welcome to the new normal…
The Covidfefe Chronicles
You can’t spell “pandemic” without “me,” backward
Damp Sponges
Meghan and Harry couch surf in L.A. while Andy and Fergie are deadbeats in the Alps
Lights Out, Part I
The picturesque Brant Lake boys’ camp, in the Adirondacks, seemed the perfect idyll—until a longtime counselor was accused of child molestation
Affairs of State
A new book goes deep into the hot-blooded hypocrisy at the heart of the French presidency
Natale Rusconi
A master at tending to V.I.P.’s from Princess Margaret to Maria Callas, he transformed the Hotel Cipriani into one of the jet set’s premier destinations
History Repeats Itself
“We can really understand something of epic tragedy only when it becomes personal”: honoring the end of World War II in the middle of a pandemic
Egomania
Quarantine has changed a lot about the world, but when it comes to posting photos on Instagram, it’s still a narcissist’s game
No Privacy, Please
Meghan puts her rift with her father on trial in a splashy court battle against the press
The $93 Billion Man
Bill Gates on the race for a vaccine, the need for cooperation across borders, and what he misses most under lockdown
Uprising, Interrupted
The pandemic forced global protest movements into lockdown. But how long until they bust out?
Miranda, Countess of Stockton
When she married Peter Sellers, at 23, her two Pekingese dogs (Tabitha and Tomasina) served as bridesmaids
Imaginary Girlfriend
In Japan, holographic women are heralding the era of digisexuality
Mort Drucker
For 55 years, the Mad-magazine illustrator was, as George Lucas said, the “Leonardo da Vinci of comic satire”
“Old Boys” vs. New Tricks
At St. Bernard’s School, new-money barbarians are at war with upper-class traditionalists
Unholy Virgin
Richard Branson is Trump in Cool Britannia clothing
Megxit Diaries
The Sussex bolters’ first 100 days out of royal captivity
