Vanity Fair

From entertainment to world affairs, business to style, design to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst, inspiring and driving the national conversation. Now the magazine has redefined storytelling for the Digital Age, bringing its high-profile interviews, stunning photography, and thought-provoking features to your device in a whole new way.

Vanity Fair

Editor’s Letter • Scarlett Johansson has been a working actor for so much of her life that you can’t imagine contemporary cinema without her. She’s also a chameleonic virtuoso, whose superpowers include her knack for unpredictability.

Contributors

MOLLY GORDON writes her own ticket

Dream MACHINE • In Murderbot, Apple TV+’s new sci-fi series based on Martha Wells’s award-winning novels, a self-hacking security unit struggles to find a balance between its own free will and carrying out dangerous missions

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Red HOT • Rad hatter JAMES KEITH—not to be confused with his hat label, Keith James—prefers his suiting casual and his rigatoni spicy

Revenge PLOT • Nearly 20 years post–Oprah brouhaha, JAMES FREY is back with a sexy, funny novel that’s headed straight to the screen

WORKPLACE Dramas • As employees across the country find themselves back in the office—happily or otherwise—here’s a guide to help figure out which TV work environment you’re best suited for

Special TREATMENT • With high-tech beauty offerings at the freshly renovated Hôtel Plaza Athénée and a new location in Portofino, Dior spas are redesigning wellness

Full SCREEN • At 20, YouTube has hosted billions of videos, launched stars—and made Hollywood nervous

A Dose of REALITY • The Emmys would be less—what’s the word?—boring if they stopped snubbing the grand circus of reality TV

A Study In SCARLETT • SCARLETT JOHANSSON BELIEVES IN PERSISTENCE, DINER FOOD, SPEAKING HER MIND, MOVIES BIG AND SMALL, REDEMPTION, AND—WATCH OUT, MICHAEL CHE—SWEET REVENGE

SHADOWS IN THE VALLEY • FROM THE STEEL BELT TO STEVE BANNON’S REALMS, CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMAN RO KHANNA HAS STUMPED HIS WAY DOWN THE DEMOCRATS’ ROAD OF DEATH. CAN HIS SPECIFIC BRAND OF PROGRESSIVE POPULISM BRING IT BACK TO LIFE?

PEAK TV • THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER ITS DEBUT, DAVID LYNCH’S TWIN PEAKS STILL EXUDES PARANORMAL COOL. FOR ITS OBSESSIVE FANS—INCLUDING MANY BORN AFTER IT FIRST AIRED—THE MYSTERY IS THE MESSAGE

THE UNSINKABLE Kathy Bates • She hasn’t always been on “the A-team going to Ibiza or whatever”—and thank heavens for that. A candid interview with a legend in a league of her own

ROAD TO DAMASCUS • Returning to a newly liberated Syria, veteran war correspondent JANINE DI GIOVANNI discovers a nation wary of its untested leaders, haunted by five decades of trauma, and yet imbued with hope and possibility

BEST in SHOWS • UNDER JOHN LANDGRAF’S LEADERSHIP, FX HAS BECOME A FACTORY OF PRESTIGE HITS BY NOT ACTING LIKE A FACTORY. INSIDE THE MIND OF THE STREAMING INDUSTRY’S WISE MAN—AND THE STUDIO THAT GAVE US THE BEAR, SHŌGUN, FARGO, AND MORE

THE LONG GOODBYE • Erica Jong, feminist icon and literary celebrity, was a dominant force in the culture—and my life. Watching my mother slide into dementia is a reminder of the fleeting nature of fame

KEVIN BACON • The Bondsman actor on marriage, bullshit, and his perfectly unique nose