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Necessary GOODS • In a year that has seen soap embraced with fresh urgency, handwashing has become a national pastime and meme star. Let it also be a 20-second brush with beauty, wit, or noble purpose. (Proceeds from The Right to Shower aid the homeless, while Woo supports families in need.)
Quilty PLEASURES • A patchwork ode to Gloria Vanderbilt, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the Summer of Love, and all things Americana
COMFORT Zone • Killing Eve star JODIE COMER, the face of science-forward beauty brand Noble Panacea, shares her earthly delights
Sharp OBJECTS
The Beat GOES ON • For a living room jam or a soothing escape, musicians turn out fresh sounds to suit the season
Dream STREAM • Your summer viewing can go one of three ways: finally tackle The Wire, binge on some unscripted comfort food with The Great British Bake Off, or try something totally new. Thanks to the season’s bounty of fresh debuts and familiar favorites, tubing offers some adventures, and V.F. critics RICHARD LAWSON, K. AUSTIN COLLINS, and SONIA SARAIYA can help you choose your ideal if-then viewing
Picture MODE • Fashion history does double duty as aesthetic escapism and summer outfit inspiration—no matter where your summer may be
TRICK MIRRORS • These four books spin fictional identities for real people, real identities for fictional people, and slide all kinds of doors in between
GLAD TIDINGS • Items selected to elevate the mood, whether as a personal pick-me-up or a present sent to a much-missed friend
The Name GAME • Irreverent text messages, exchanged over many years, take on a new meaning
Artist in Residence • Janelle Monáe’s upcoming performances—the starring role in the series Homecoming and a woman ripped out of time in the summer movie Antebellum—are perfectly pitched for our unsettled moment. The eight-time Grammy nominee, style icon, and Prince protégé speaks to V.F. from quarantine about fear, fury, and hope BY YOHANA DESTA
In the shallows • Before he was for opening the beaches, Donald Trump was for closing them. Before he punted responsibility to governors, he asserted absolute authority. And this was all supposed to be over in March. GABRIEL SHERMAN reports on the head-snapping contradictions of the president in the time of crisis
The MAKING of ANDREW CUOMO • The New York governor’s impassioned coronavirus briefings, an essential counterpoint to the Trump circus, draw on a lifetime of political combat, reflecting lessons learned from Bill Clinton, the Kennedys, and, most of all, his late father, mentor, and model, Mario
SILENT SPRING • New Yorkers famously find solace in numbers. Now they’re being forced to persevere in solitude. RADHIKA JONES remembers life in the city that never sleeps
UNITED WE WATCH • A Special Section CELEBRATING MUST-SEE, EMMY-WORTHY TELEVISION
LIVE TO STREAM • Television connects us now more than ever. Our chief critic sets the scene
MAKING A SCENE • A...