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Vanities VANITAS VANITATUM • Jonathan Majors, 30, stars in films from Brad Pitt, Spike Lee, and Jay-Z, plus a new HBO drama
Opening Act
Full Circle • A decade after its finale, The L Word returns with three fan favorites and four new stars. In honor of the show’s own chart, here’s a Generation Q primer
FRAME IT • The artist Kia LaBeija, who brings her voguing background to a new performance work, puts a polish on maximalism
SPORTING GOODS • Telling time isn’t enough these days. This season’s best watches are overachievers—a light-up Rolex strapped in sturdy rubber; a Vacheron with a moon phase calendar; a Montblanc case cast in bronze. With visions this athletic, consider the pace set
SOAK IT UP • Call the bath daily routine or meditative ritual. Whatever the reason to come clean, winter is the right moment to chill out and warm up—with a dip in the claw-foot tub or a visit to a geothermal marvel
LAUGH TRACK • Author of the essay collection Little Weirds and star of the Netflix special Stage Fright, Jenny Slate likes white tees and baths for two
ON LOCATION
BEYOND Words
RAZZLE DAZZLE • All that glitters got down on the dance floor at Bulgari’s gala for the Serpenti Seduttori, in London
Nuking the Hurricane • Impeaching Donald Trump is a bizarre and strangely familiar nightmare
The BALLAD of JOHN & CHRISSY • Legend’s an optimist with an EGOT. Teigen’s a Twitter icon who struggles with anxiety but isn’t afraid of the president and “a bunch of bigots.” Together, they’re helping to mainstream dissent
Empire STATE of Mind
THE EDUCATION of BILLY BARR • Many in Washington wonder why the stiff-spined, fastidious attorney general is carrying the water for someone as impetuous and morally untethered as Donald Trump. The answer may lie in the lessons William Barr learned from his father, a combative and deliberately provocative New Yorker—not unlike the president himself
The SUPER SPEAKER • Two days in the life of Nancy Pelosi, impeachment champion, political grandmaster
THE WAYS OF THE Jet Cult • How the private jet became the singular fetish and status marker of the modern superrich
The Kids Are All Right
An AMERICAN in PARIS • In an exclusive excerpt from his new novel, Find Me, André Aciman picks up the story of Elio Perlman, the young hero of Call Me by Your Name. Fifteen years later, Elio is in the early stages of a new relationship—but he hasn’t forgotten his first love
THE BIG BITCOIN HEIST • WITH ITS CHEAP GEOTHERMAL ENERGY AND LOW CRIME RATE, ICELAND HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S LEADING MINER OF DIGITAL CURRENCY. THEN THE CRYPTOCROOKS SHOWED UP
Season Of Style
Sparkle Revolution
The Vanity Box
Frame Up
All Wrapped Up
Proust Questionnaire • The cocreator and star of Schitt’s Creek talks family competition and finding egg salad bliss