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Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone Run Wild in Kinds of Kindness
The follow-up to Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-winning Poor Things initially had Plemons asking, “Oh my God. What?”
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Joan of Arc. Cinderella. What’s Next?
Before Zendaya steps out as one of this year’s cochairs, VF charts her show-stealing history on the Met Gala carpet.
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Paul Manafort’s Life Was in Shambles. Then Trump Came Along.
Mired in debt and marital troubles, the lobbyist was still fresh out of rehab when he hitched himself to the former president’s 2016 campaign. He got the boot two months later.
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The Way We Wore
Nothing anchors a time and place quite like a memorable red-carpet moment.
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First Look
An Exclusive First Look at Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel scan the horizon, and Coppola explains his sprawling influences for the utopian drama.
Brooke Baldwin: Leaving CNN Was How I Found My Voice
Former anchor Brooke Baldwin exited the network after 13 years not because of Trump coverage or pandemic chaos, but because of something far more ordinary—and insidious.
STEALING SUNSET
The Dream Home That Became a Nightmare on Hollywood Boulevard
The writer’s Spanish Revival home was the stuff of Hollywood real estate fantasies—and the ideal target for Benjamin Ackerman, the city’s most prolific thief.
Q & A
Robert Kagan on the Limits of Liberalism and Dangers of Donald Trump
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the senior Brookings fellow plumbs the racist “traditionalism” that was baked into America’s origins—and connects it to the ex-president’s authoritarian ambitions today: “I don’t want to be a flip of the coin away from possibly saying that the government that was established by the founders is destroyed.”
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IN PHOTOGRAPHS
books
Photographer Rahim Fortune Examines Heritage, Ritual, and Black Culture’s Enduring Traditions in the American South
A profound sense of timelessness surrounds Fortune’s new book, Hardtack, comprised of portraits and landscapes photographed over a decade.