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Maximum Dosage

As red carpet culture returns, the celebrity gossip cycle is back and more fervent than ever

Elizabeth Taylor – The Role of Her Life

A new biography reveals the details of Elizabeth Taylor's lonely battle as activist during the AIDS crisis-and her struggle to persuade her famous Hollywood friends to help

George Saunders

The Booker Prize-winning author of Liberation Day on Lincoln's filthy jokes, an eagerness to please, and watching his back

Willow Smith – Power Chords

After a turbulent year for her famous family, Willow Smith pours her anger and vulnerability into a surprising new rock album

Pariahs in Paradise

Chaos lingers at the periphery, but the Trump-Kushner marriage is thriving in exile. Pitbull is a pal, carbone is for dinner, and game of thrones is only a Tv show

Channing Tatum – Magic Man

After a lengthy hiatus, Channing Tatum is back to cap off his blockbusting strip trilogy. The man with the moves opens up about laughing, crying, dancing, and finding love with Zoë Kravitz

From THE BRINK

Midterm voters sent antidemocratic candidates packing. It might be time for optimism

Silver BELLE

Tiffany & Co. might conjure images of sparkling stones and gleaming gold, but the brand's history is forged in silver too: baby rattles swaddled in eggshell blue cloth, the Elsa Peretti heart it was Tiffany that set the American sterling standard.

Burn BRIGHT

MICHEAL WARD is leaving audiences dazzled—and his mother slightly scandalized

The Knight's Tale

At Lavish gatherings from Monaco to the Middle East, Anthony Ritossa built a lucrative business convening the titans who control the "Family offices" of the überwealthy. But the self-styled knight of the realm and purported Nobel Prize nominee turned out to be a Wall Street washout, a deadbeat dad, and a dangerous con man

Hall of Fame

Hollywood director and Rolling Stone veteran Cameron Crowe is taking his rock-movie classic ALMOST FAMOUS to Broadway

Winning Friends, Influencing People

How JJ Redick has gone from being one of basketball's most hated players to one of its most beloved commentators

Inventing Ivana

Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York Cityand help define its "greed is good" era. From her heyday presiding over her husband's properties to her decadent postDonald denouement selling costume jewelry and cavorting with a series of "freaky" Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name

Naomi Ackie – The Voice

Naomi Ackie, the dazzling British actor playing Whitney Houston in a new Hollywood biopic, opens up about her surprising road from drama school to Star Wars to the greatest love of all

Hugh Jackman

The award-winning actor and star of The Son on birthday presents, the ocean, and his love for Bill Nighy

Across the Universe

Chloé creative director Gabriela Hearst is drawing fashion inspiration from clean energy and the results are electrifying

Marvelous Margot

This season, Margot Robbie is set to dazzle as a silent movie star in Damien Chazelle's Babylon, and next year as a Barbie for the 21st century in Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated movie, which she's also producing. She opens up about her story-and Hollywood's

The Fight Ahead

The Supreme Court's decision to end federal protections for abortion access didn't just rewind the clock 50 years, it opened a Pandora's box of confusing, potentially life-threatening legal complications. VF talks with five women on the front lines.

The Past Is Present

Half a century ago-amid Supreme Court hearings on Roe v. Wade, racial reckonings, and political tension a group of women launched Ms. magazine. Here, Gloria Steinem reflects on that first year

Rachel Zegler – She's All That

Musical heroine, dystopian warrior, Disney princess—what can’t Rachel Zegler do?

SARGENT'S ORDERS

ON THE THURSDAY after Labor Day, the Gagosian gallery helda dinner at Altro Paradiso, a haute pasta spot in New York’s SoHo. Each year that September evening is a rite of passage in the art world. The Chelsea galleries throw open their doors to the big fall shows, the public floods the blocks between 10th and 11th Avenues, and a select few get invited to dinners to celebrate it all, with cocktails flowing late into the evening.

INCIDENT TO SERVICE

For more than 70 years, an obscure legal doctrine has prevented active-duty service members from suing the federal government for wrongful injury or death occurring outside of combat. Jurists left and right have long lamented the decision and begged for Congress to act. So why is justice that's available to every American civilian still being denied those who serve our nation?

The FIREBRAND

SCOTUS is ina right-wing choke hold, but a liberal conservationist judge blazed the activism trail By Dougtas Brinkley

The Director NAISPERER

Judith Weston advises filmmakers on how to coax great performances out of every actor By Joy Press

Moving THE NEEDLE

Originally marketed for diabetics, an insulin-regulating drug whose side effect is dramatic weight loss is now the It drug for the thin set

Party STARTER

Known for mixing elegance with the absurd, food artist LAILA GOHAR dips into beauty

The Rise of the Ronald

Ron DeSantis is the polished, competent, Fox-loving, lib-owning successor-in-waiting to Donald Trump's MAGA nation. Is it any wonder they're locked in a 2024 cold war?

Patti Smith – Be Here, Now

Through 366 images, Patti Smith finds art in the everyday

The Aftermath

Girls have been banned from school after sixth grade. Women are mandated to be fully covered except for their eyes. Female employment has virtually disappeared. Peter Van Agtmael reports and photographs from Afghanistan, where the Taliban have spent the past year erasing women from public life Juharan

The Queen Mother

The question of reparations couldn't be more urgent, as the health care crisis for black Americans worsens. In Queen Mother Audley Moore, we have a newly relevant template for change.