Vanity Fair
Annals of Communications
Why Didn’t Vanity Fair Break the Jeffrey Epstein Story?
The former editor Graydon Carter and a journalist, Vicky Ward, give conflicting accounts of why the magazine didn’t publish sexual-abuse allegations in 2003.
On Television
Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter
Viewers are made to feel sympathetic to Sharp’s hustle, but our sympathies would be alien to the author of the book, who imagined her as a pure opportunist, aiming to hoodwink fools and snobs.
On Television
Hive Mind
Culture Desk
Ingrid Sischy in The New Yorker
Cultural Comment
Caitlyn Jenner’s Big Début
Annals of Communications
The Hillary Show
Comment
Still Here
Books
White Mischief
The Current Cinema
Rob Jobs
On Television
Small Wonders
Profiles
We Are Alive
A Critic at Large
Radical Chic
Photo Booth
Larry Fink: The Vanities
A Critic at Large
What She Said
Page-Turner
How “Fielding” Hit Its Home Run
Double Take
The Many Names of P. G. Wodehouse
The Wayward Press
Search And Destroy
Letter from Palo Alto