Royals
Murder, They Wrote
Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch This month’s best crime-fiction book and TV shows
A Very Spanish Scandal
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
The Front Lines
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
T.G.I.S.
The Attention-Whore Index George Santos returns, Kristi Noem splurges, and Donald Trump destroys
Megxit Follies
Selling Sussex Harry and Meghan’s new director of communications has a Sisyphean task: making the pair, well, likable. Four public-relations experts weigh in on how they would achieve the impossible
Great Lives
Reinaldo Herrera An international arbiter of style whose manners were matched by his joie de vivre and loyalty
Brush with the Devil
Lucian Freud’s “Slave” David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house
The “Oh, Boy” Network
School for Scoundrels Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling
Adventures in Journalism
Assignment: Sinatra
Part III
Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas
