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TRAVEL • IN NEXT MONTH’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE
VANITIES • VANITAS VANITATUM
SURVEILLANCE STATE • A new documentary uncovers FBI attempts to undermine the fight for civil rights
Spring FORWARD
Seeing GREEN • What’s old is new again. These items—a bag riffing on archival silhouettes and crafted from scrap leather; a dress designed using stock fabric; a cream made from organic grapevines—refashion the past for a sustainable present and future
All in the FAMILY • MICHAEL GANDOLFINI on loss, confidence, and playing his father’s famous character
Man With a PLAN • “The world is paying attention to the problem,” BILL GATES says of the climate crisis, “and we’re setting big goals for dealing with it.” Now the philanthropist and activist has written a book that details his vision for a way forward
The Long GAME • In hair care, the push for sustainability is personal and global
Lucky STRIPES • On the advent of her new book, Norma Kamali: I Am Invincible, the beloved designer shares her streamlined life
We Love LUCY • I Hate Suzie cocreator and Succession writer whiz Lucy Prebble talks her game
CHARMING Billie • In the last year, Billie Eilish scored five Grammys, went multiplatinum eight times, released the new Bond theme, and was forced to cancel a 49-date tour. Then, she turned 19
DOWN IN THE VALLEY • THE HELICOPTER RIDE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE ANY OTHER: A SHORT, SCENIC CHOP TO THE MAMBA SPORTS ACADEMY, HOME IN TIME FOR DINNER. BUT THINGS DIDN’T GO AS PLANNED ON KOBE BRYANT’S FINAL FLIGHT
MAGA NON GRATA • Whether they head for the backwater luxury of New Jersey, the towering gilt of Park Avenue, or a $30 million Florida plot, Jared and Ivanka will reenter society as outcasts
GROWING UP IVANKA • I met Ivanka Trump at an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, and we were inseparable for more than a decade. Gradually, though, our differences divided us—“Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?” she once asked—and I watched her blow up her carefully curated image of refined privilege to embrace her father wholesale
SIR PETER AND THE AIRPLANE THIEF • A dashing American aviator built a fantasy air force Lord of the Rings director PETER JACKSON. Then planes started to disappear
TOP BRASS • MUSICAL VIRTUOSO TROMBONE SHORTY ON HIS NEW ALBUM, THE FUTURE OF NEW ORLEANS, AND THE BIT TERSWEET BLISS OF BEING STANDARD-BEARER FOR A CITY’S SOUND
The MAYOR Leagues • As New York reels from COVID and its fallout, an election bears down on the city that never sleeps—nor produces particularly stellar leaders
Dear Mrs. L’Engle • When the prolific author of A Wrinkle in Time began a correspondence with a Black Panther imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit, neither could have imagined what the relationship would yield
SERENA WILLIAMS • The tennis champion, fashion icon, and entrepreneur on self-love, superheroes, and living with zero regrets