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Q & A

How Amazon Became “Too Toxic to Touch”

A new book reveals how the company systematically stifles criticism, squeezes out competitors, and even pits its own employees against one another.
In Conversation

Joan Baez’s New Chapter

The singer-songwriter’s debut poetry collection marks the first time she’s sharing such work publicly, the culmination of decades spent chronicling her life.
Little Gold Men

Shōgun vs. Baby Reindeer: A Thrilling Emmy Race Begins

Will we ever have a limited-series battle this creatively ambitious again?

FOR TORTURED POETS

Chairman of the Department
Taylor Swift’s New Album Is Here, and It Is Bleak
The musician’s eleventh studio album hit shelves on Friday, April 19.
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Meet Clara Bow, the Scrutinized “It Girl” Who Inspired a New Song
The silent-film star whose legacy has often been reduced to scandal gets a namesake track on The Tortured Poets Department, which Bow’s family hopes captures her “perseverance.”
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How Taylor Swift Laid the Groundwork for a Surprise Double Album
Vanity Fair's resident Swiftie makes the case for why Reputation (Taylor's Version) could come alongside The Tortured Poets Department on Friday.

IN PHOTOGRAPHS

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Photographer Rahim Fortune Examines Heritage, Ritual, and Black Culture’s Enduring Traditions in the American South

A profound sense of timelessness surrounds Fortune’s new book, Hardtack, comprised of portraits and landscapes photographed over a decade.