Mort Drucker
For 55 years, the Mad-magazine illustrator was, as George Lucas said, the “Leonardo da Vinci of comic satire”
Unholy Virgin
Richard Branson is Trump in Cool Britannia clothing
Ground Control to Captain Tom
How a 99-year-old World War II vet became England’s hottest pop idol
A French Kiss-Off
Will the double cheek kiss be France’s next coronavirus casualty?
Where Bad Behavior Is Always in Season
In the Hamptons, the only thing not on lockdown is New Yorkers’ sense of entitlement
Arche-Nemesis
If only Prince Harry had done his ancient-Greek homework …
The Highest Office
A former Trump intimate insists that Donald Trump is a known substance abuser. Why is no one listening?
“Nipper” Read
In the 1960s, he took down the Kray twins, Swinging London’s most ruthless gangsters—and helped solve the Great Train Robbery
More Side Effects
Self-isolation then and now. A lot has changed since 1978—but some things haven’t
How to Thrash Your Family at Scrabble
Tips and tactics that will make you Master of the Board in these lockdown days
Supreme Indifference
What the Supreme Court’s decision about the Wisconsin primary means for this year’s election
Marathoning in Place
Last week, more than 2,000 runners around the world took part in a live-streamed race, despite being in self-isolation. It was Zoom at its most literal—and thrilling
One Hand Washes the Other
To allay your coronavirus-induced angst, put the “social” in social distance
Ivory Power
How genetic scientists at Berkeley raced to the labs and created a high-speed test for the coronavirus
Dirty Books for Clean Hands
Sales of “quarantine erotica” are booming, thanks to the coronavirus
Side Effects
Cataloguing some of the less consequential repercussions of the coronavirus
Wait, That Was True?
An American veteran confirms a British W.W. II soldier’s outlandish account of being the first to liberate Paris from the Nazis
The Ladies’ Man Vanishes
Peter Beard, the world-famous photographer, adventurer, and playboy, goes missing in the Hamptons
Romeo Meets Juliet, with a Happy Ending
In Italy, two lovers start a romance across balconies
Harry Hamilton
The British soldier who claimed he got lost and liberated Paris by accident