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Special ADDITIONS
As the season shifts, shake things up with rose-tinted accessories, the latest launches and a little cultural intrigue
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Editor’s Letter
As much as summer has been the season for blockbuster movies, it’s also now the season for blockbuster TV. Our June cover features a face new to the small screen but hardly to entertainment—on the contrary,
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VANITIES
BELLA RAMSEY’S hit parade
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Block Party
LA gets its Chelsea moment.
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Face FORWARD
The most sought-after facialists deploy a mix of high-tech wizardry and lo-fi creature comforts for their captive audiences
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Taste the RAINBOW
A trove of Ellsworth Kelly art is reaching new eyes this year as 11 museums and galleries around the country celebrate the centennial of the color-loving American artist
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Sun SOAKED
The wet, hot American summer shines on, in a quartet of rich visual histories
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SIX PACK
Feline ponderings, knotty love, and more fresh novels
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Gather ’Round
New works of nonfiction chronicle change and growth.
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Good GRACES
For SARA JANE HO, host of Netflix’s Mind Your Manners and founder of Institute Sarita, a finishing school in China, decorum is in the details
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GREENROOM With a View
I come from a family of TV talking heads. Who am I to break with tradition?
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AN idol MIND
AS THE WEEKND, Abel Tesfaye LEVERAGED AN AUTEUR-SCALE VISION TO BECOME AN UNLIKELY MEGASTAR. WITH A SEAMY HOLLYWOOD FANTASIA OF AN HBO SERIES ON THE WAY, HE’S REALIZING HIS GRANDEST AMBITION
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THE OLIGARCH’S PASSPORT
IN 2015, PORTUGAL OPENED ITS DOORS TO FOREIGNERS WHOSE JEWISH ANCESTORS HAD BEEN EXPELLED DURING THE INQUISITION. RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE ROMAN ABRAMOVICH USED HIS HERITAGE TO GAIN ENTRY TO THE COUNTRY—AND AN ALL-ACCESS PASS TO THE EU—EXPOSING DEEP FLAWS IN A WELL-INTENTIONED POLICY
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INSIDE THE PLAN TO CONVINCE VOTERS THAT JOE BIDEN CAN HANDLE FOUR MORE YEARS
Such a Fun Age
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BATTLE HYMN
Long before Ron DeSantis made the regulation of college curricula a stump-speech talking point, WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. launched a conservative crusade to transform universities into bastions of right-wing ideology
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THE FEAST
Streaming has brought riches to viewers, even if Hollywood’s learning some hard lessons. Welcome to the TV issue—and thank you for not skipping the intro
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OBJECT LESSONS
A tribute to the inanimate key players in four major Emmy contenders
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RAGS AND RICHES
Television’s über-wealthy communicate their status through looks both flashy and deceptively casual
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8 PERFECT EPISODES
Even on some of the best shows, there are chapters that stand above the rest
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MACHINE DREAMS
The creator of the beloved cult hit Dickinson on how she learned to stop worrying and love AI
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PLAZA SUITE
Yes, she can play deadpan millennial chaos like nobody else. But AUBREY PLAZA has shown all kinds of range on the road from parks and recreation to the white lotus. Now she’s in league with both Marvel and Francis Ford Coppola
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LOST ILLUSIONS
IT WAS A GRIPPING, GROUNDBREAKING SMASH, BUT LOST DEVOLVED INTO SUCH A TOXIC PRODUCTION THAT EVEN CO-SHOWRUNNER DAMON LINDELOF NOW SAYS OF HIS LEADERSHIP: “I FAILED.” IN A POWERFUL EXCERPT FROM HER NEW BOOK, MAUREEN RYAN OPENS THE HATCH
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STAR LIGHT
THIS YEAR’S EMMYS ARE MORE COMPETITIVE THAN EVER. VF HONORS SOME OF THE SEASON’S MOST ARRESTING PERFORMERS
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The Hangover
Billions in losses. Sweeping layoffs and restructuring. A writers strike. Now that the streaming bubble has burst, the TV industry has woken up with an excruciating headache
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The V Files
In 1983, when Kenneth Johnson set out to create a parable about fascism, he had no idea that his alien-invasion miniseries V would become a cult classic—or that decades later, the far right would seize on the show as proof that body-snatching lizards really do walk among us
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SIR ELTON JOHN
The music legend, whose farewell concert could earn him an Emmy and an EGOT, sounds off on attitude, addiction, and the perils of a stiff upper lip
