Vanity Fair US - October 2023

In this issue

Swamp Things
Ron DeSantis isn’t getting enough credit for being as awful as he is. A Florida man reports.
By Carl Hiaasen
Illustration by Philip Burke

The Last Descent
Inside the tight-knit community of explorers who for years suspected the OceanGate tragedy was bound to happen.
By Susan Casey

Estate of Play
Owning a Downton Abbey–style country house isn’t what it used to be. These days, the rich and legacied have been forced to reckon with the past.
By James Reginato

FATHER Figure

ALEX COOPER takes the Call Her Daddy podcast to new heights

1 min

Marty Without THE MOB

Killers of the Flower Moon is part of arich but often overlooked strain of Scorsese’s storied careerMARTIN SCORSESE ISN'T afraid of what he doesn't know. \"He's the gutsiest director I've ever met in my life,\" says Irwin Winkler, who's produced Scorsese films for more than three decades.

2 mins

DARK Matter

Nodding to gothic horror and cyber dystopia, moody makeup brings a glamorous edge to existential concerns

2 mins

Long Day's JOURNEY

Sure, geniuses should be allowed to make endless films. But what’s everybody else’s excuse?

7 mins

SWAMP Things

Ron DeSantis won't hesitate to race Trump to the bottom. Take it from a native Floridian

6 mins

Bad Bunny's Year of Rest and Relaxation

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio swears he's taking a breather from ultra-mega global superstardom to enjoy life in puerto rico and some downtime with his girlfriend. Just don't ask him about the album he's about to release

10+ mins

The Last Descent

Though the world wouldn't catch on until disaster struck, a tight-knit community of seafarers, explorers, and bold submariners worried for years that Stockton Rush's OceanGate implosion was all but guaranteed. SUSAN CASEY, author of The Underworld, reveals the hardest truths about the Titan

10+ mins

Estate of Play

Once you’re 200 or so miles north of London, everything seems to be bigger and bolder, including the country houses. This is Yorkshire, the Texas of England.

10+ mins

NEW DIRECTIONS

NIA DACOSTA, DIRECTOR AND COWRITER OF THE MARVELS, IS LESS CONCERNED ABOUT THE BARRIERS SHE'S BROKEN THAN THE WORLDS SHE'LL TAKE ON NEXT

8 mins

The Life of the Party

Your FAVORITE RAPPER'S FAVORITE BILLIONAIRE loves nothing more than to have a few hundred of his famous friends over to his Hamptons estate. How did a sports-licensing CEO from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, become this generation's Gatsby?

10+ mins

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