You Can't Sit With Us

Why New York restaurants are going members-only.

CHAOS THEORY

\"3 Body Problem,\" on Netflix.

Neighbors

Not long after our twins turned three, my wife, Anna, accepted a transfer to the West Coast. The opportunity was lucrative, but that wasn’t why we were eager to go. Anna had spent that March and April involved with another man, a colleague, someone whose name I’d never heard until she told me about him. She said that it had been a terrible mistake, that it had only made her hate herself, and that this person had now begun almost to frighten her, continuing to call after she’d asked him to stop, declaring that he’d leave his family, demanding to speak with me. I was surprised to find that, more than anything, I felt sorry for her.

MAGA MIKE

House Speaker Mike Johnson uses a s uses a soft touch to push hard-right politics.

BID FOR THE STARS

The booming market in the stuff of celebrity.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN

Two entries from a new alphabet of the colonized world, an illustrated ABC.

ALL THAT GLITTERS

The showmanship of Gustav Klimt.

HOT AND BOTHERED

How Candida Royalle set out to remake the porn industry.

THE ENABLERS

Hitler didn't grab power; he was given it.

Profile – A Class of Her Own

Quinta Brunson was a devoted student of the sitcom long before she created "Abbott Elementary."

Shouts & Murmurs – The Affair With My Chair

I’ve heard people call sitting the new smoking. Others say that sitting is the new sugar. Both wrong. I’m here to tell you that sitting is the new sex. It feels so good, especially with the right partner.

City of Thieves

In L.A., cops battle crime rings that steal everything from purses to power tools.

MELANIE ANN DONOGHUE WEDS WORDLE

Melanie Ann Donoghue, thirty-two, of Westchester County, New York, was wed on Saturday to Wordle.

OLD SCHOOL

Have the liberal arts gone conservative?

INVISIBLE CITY

> After ists fell in Syria, supporters and victims alike were herded into a giant outdoor prison— and effectively given lifetime sentences.

THE TIME BEING

In my early thirties, I began to cultivate the friendship of older people—people born twenty or thirty or even fifty years before me. I read many novels in those days.

O.K., DOOMER

Some people want to build ALI. faster. Others want to pull the plug. Who will decide the fate of humanity?

TALKING WITH GOD

John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable” and Brooklyn Laundry.”

BODIES OF EVIDENCE

“Love Lies Bleeding.”

YOU TELL ME

Why Percival Everett cant say what his novels mean.

GONE WITH THE WIND

In pursuit of John Wilkes Booth.

AI STAR Is Born

How artificial intelligence is already changing filmmaking

FEAR ANDING IN RIYADH

What could a movie star and Saudi Arabia's all-powerful ruler possibly have in common? Plenty, as it turns out. Behold, the stranger-thanfiction story of how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed Johnny Depp into his kingdom and his circle of trust

STEALING SUNSET

After. waking up to an intruder in the bedroom one night, writer PUNCH HUTTON no longer felt safe in her family’s dream home. When they decided to sell; the most prolific thief in Hollywood history saw a golden opportunity

THE Power & THE Glamour - A HOLLYWOOF PORTFOLIO

As the strike dust settles and America reacquaints itself with the box office (thank you, Barbenheimer), VANITY FAIR spotlights LA's most influential characters, the players keeping the town running

When the STARS ALIGN

For our 30th ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD ISSUE, we tapped 11 stars making the most of a transformative era by taking chances and taking charge. Here's a peek at what happens when some of the industry's most vibrant talents let loose

Netflix Can CHILL

Two years after a stock crash that destabilized the industry and inspired endless schadenfreude, the streamer’s reputation—and finances—have bounced back

DEATH & THE MASQUE

In Hollywood in 1977, punk rock was exploding and a small band of scene-makers were flourishing in a dingy basement club. Little did they know a pair of serial killers would soon claim one of their own

PLAY MATES

Her parents didn't exactly gel with the other families at school, so she spent the first 10 years of her life going to the Playboy Mansion with her nanny. Writer-director LORRAINE NICHOLSON looks back on a childhood spent swimming in the infamous grotto with her eyes open-long before she knew what sex, let alone a sex cave, even was

DEEP STATE

IN SECRET UNDERSEA LOCATIONS, AMERICA'S FLEET OF NUCLEAR SUBMARINES SILENTLY PREPARES FOR THE NEXT SUPERPOWER CONFLICT. GAINING UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO THESE RARELY GLIMPSED VESSELS AND THEIR COMMANDERS, VANITY FAIR REPORTS ON THE LINCHPIN OF THE NATION'S STRATEGIC ARSENAL