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Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

By George Pendle

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Skin in the Game

Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer

By Brennan Kilbane

Inside Story

The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

By Andy Webb

Inside Story

The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

By Andy Webb

Life After Lagerfeld Lady Amanda Harlech spent decades working alongside fashion’s most obsessive fixture. So what’s next?

By Vassi Chamberlain

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Malta’s Day in the Sun With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative

By Jonathan Margolis

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Interview with a Dumpster Fire Prince Andrew’s hilariously awful Jeffrey Epstein interview is being retold in a documentary, a mini-series, and a film. Can there ever be too much of a good thing?

By Stuart Heritage

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The Rise and Rise of Ziggy Stardust Moonage Daydream is the far-out, maximalist documentary David Bowie would have wanted

By Jonathan Dean

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There’s Something About Harry Harry Styles is at the top of his game as musician, actor, and icon. And what’s not to love?

By Will Hodgkinson

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The Deformative Years

By Pico Iyer

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The World According to Harry Written like an exceedingly long, drunken text message, and opening with a phrase from BrainyQuote, Spare is anything but the typical royal memoir

By James Marriott

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Towering Inferno

Master of None Amid his battle to take back the White House, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming towerless and losing the Manhattan building that made him a star

By Hugh Tomlinson

The Hot Seat

A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

By Michael Odell

Murder, They Wrote

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch This month’s best crime-fiction book and TV shows

By Lisa Henricksson

To Blackmail a King The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state

By James Badcock

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Eulogy for Palmyra As one of the last photographers to capture the ancient city before its destruction by the Islamic State, 89-year-old Sir Don McCullin returns for what he says is the last time

By Anthony Loyd

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The View from Here The war in Ukraine has not only killed and displaced millions of people but tens of thousands of horses, too

By Eleanore Kelly

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Assignment: Sinatra
Part IV Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject

By Gay Talese

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The Whistleblowing Wife Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts, tells the story of Martha Mitchell, the first and most improbable person to publicly accuse Nixon over Watergate

By Martin Fletcher

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The Dame with the Game She stole Christopher Nolan, wooed Tom Cruise, and had Ice Cube praising the size of her cojones. How Donna Langley became the most powerful woman in Hollywood

By Robbie Collin

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Great Lives

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting

By Harry Mount

Film Classics

Sinatra in the Jungle On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time

By Richard M. Cohen

Royals on Holiday

Sleeping Around A farmhouse in Romania, a monastery in Greece, a cottage in Cornwall—King Charles’s preferred getaways are surprisingly plebeian. And most are open to the public

By Katie Bowman

The Attention-Whore Index George Santos returns, Kristi Noem splurges, and Donald Trump destroys

By George Kalogerakis

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Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer

The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

Life After Lagerfeld Lady Amanda Harlech spent decades working alongside fashion’s most obsessive fixture. So what’s next?

Malta’s Day in the Sun With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative

Interview with a Dumpster Fire Prince Andrew’s hilariously awful Jeffrey Epstein interview is being retold in a documentary, a mini-series, and a film. Can there ever be too much of a good thing?

The Rise and Rise of Ziggy Stardust Moonage Daydream is the far-out, maximalist documentary David Bowie would have wanted

There’s Something About Harry Harry Styles is at the top of his game as musician, actor, and icon. And what’s not to love?

The Deformative Years

The World According to Harry Written like an exceedingly long, drunken text message, and opening with a phrase from BrainyQuote, Spare is anything but the typical royal memoir

Master of None Amid his battle to take back the White House, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming towerless and losing the Manhattan building that made him a star

A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch This month’s best crime-fiction book and TV shows

To Blackmail a King The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state

Eulogy for Palmyra As one of the last photographers to capture the ancient city before its destruction by the Islamic State, 89-year-old Sir Don McCullin returns for what he says is the last time

The View from Here The war in Ukraine has not only killed and displaced millions of people but tens of thousands of horses, too

Assignment: Sinatra Part IV Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject

The Whistleblowing Wife Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts, tells the story of Martha Mitchell, the first and most improbable person to publicly accuse Nixon over Watergate

The Dame with the Game She stole Christopher Nolan, wooed Tom Cruise, and had Ice Cube praising the size of her cojones. How Donna Langley became the most powerful woman in Hollywood

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting

Sinatra in the Jungle On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time

Sleeping Around A farmhouse in Romania, a monastery in Greece, a cottage in Cornwall—King Charles’s preferred getaways are surprisingly plebeian. And most are open to the public

The Attention-Whore Index George Santos returns, Kristi Noem splurges, and Donald Trump destroys

Assignment: Sinatra
Part IV Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject