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From entertainment to world affairs, business to style, design to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst, inspiring and driving the national conversation. Now the magazine has redefined storytelling for the Digital Age, bringing its high-profile interviews, stunning photography, and thought-provoking features to your device in a whole new way.

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85 YEARS AGO • Katharine Hepburn, then on Broadway in The Lake

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Misery Loves Company • A Les Misérables mini-series, premiering this month, is the latest adaptation of Victor Hugo’s epic that’s inspired musicals, telenovelas, and more

Inside the Hive • with Nick Bilton

ACCESS IS EVERYTHING • Magazine subscribers have unlimited access to vanityfair.com

THE HOT SEAT • A new deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political high jinks—and déjà vu

Totes Literary • The best bags for this month’s books

A ROYAL WELCOME • What to expect when the royals are expecting: prepare for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first child, and the newest heir to the British throne, with a regal registry and cultural tip sheet

GET BABY-READY

APRIL SHOWERS • Keep your head above water—and an eye toward May flowers to come—with items that will have you singing in the rain

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS • A novelist designs a pendant with a purpose

SCOOP • Jessica Yellin spent two decades running the gauntlet from MSNBC to ABC and finally CNN, before launching her own media brand, News Not Noise, last year. Savage News, her roman à clef, sinks its fangs into the biz

UPWARD SPIRAL • Once a sign of feminine froideur, the bun is turning heads for its easy polish—with the occasional assist from a fancy scrunchie

TO OSCAR! • At V.F.’s Oscar bash, the effect was sheer magic as stars collided, reveling in the reflected sparkle

Gold Standard • Master portraitist MARK SELIGER captures the starlight at Hollywood’s biggest party

The Counselor • The epiphany that led Michael Cohen, Trump’s disgraced former lawyer, to a public triumph

Romeo and Juliet and Jeff • The star-crossed, politicized, complexified romance of the world’s richest man

Beto’s CHOICE • Beto O’Rourke seemed to come from nowhere to the brink of a presidential candidacy. But he’s been on a journey for his whole life, from El Paso and rebellion against a domineering political father, through Columbia, Williamsburg, punk rock, and the World Wide Web. JOE HAGAN traces his winding path and asks if O’Rourke could become America’s first punk president

GONE Girl • When Fan Bingbing vanished without a trace last year, the film industry in China was thrown into a panic. MAY JEONG explores the mysterious disappearance of the world’s biggest movie star

What a Trip! • AMY POEHLER and MAYA RUDOLPH forged A FRIENDSHIP ON S.N.L. AND turned it into A HIT ACT AT AWARDS SHOWS. WITH WINE COUNTRY, THEY’RE doubling down ON THE FUNNY BUSINESS of LADY BUSINESS

Tootsie’s BRAND NEW Bag

In COLD BLOOD • ELIZABETH HOLMES built The ranos, he r $9 billion blood-testing start-up, on a host of extraordinary lies. But the company’s final days were littered with sad truths—blinding legal bills, demoralized employe e s, de ce i t, and a wolf, who was really a dog, that pooped all over the office

DUEL of the MEGA-DEALERS • The current standoff between LARRY GAGOSIAN and DAVID ZWIRNER, the feuding titans of contemporary art: their high-stakes skirmish to represent the late Austrian artist Franz West

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