Vanity Fair

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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ODESSA YOUNG • The seminomadic Springsteen obsessive and recovering indie darling is living her dream: starring as The Boss’s muse opposite Jeremy Allen White

ARE YOU HIGH BRO OR LOW BRO?

GRIND MODE • Valentino Garavani collaborates with Vans on six limited-edition styles designed to kick push your way into high fashion

MARK RONSON • The Oscar-winning songwriter and producer documents a bygone era of New York in his new memoir

CHARM TO TABLE • The 26-year-old chef FLYNN McGARRY has been wowing diners for more than a decade. His most ambitious project yet promises fully-fledged escapism

CHAOS THEORY • Mitchell Jackson, a once-canceled journalist, is comfortable with controversy—his own and that of his incendiary clients

Sibling Revelry • ELLE AND DAKOTA FANNING HAVE BEEN ACTING ALMOST AS LONG AS THEY’VE BEEN SISTERS—AND HAVE HIT REMARKABLY FEW BUMPS ON THE ROAD TO GROWN-UP MOVIE STARDOM. THEIR SECRET IS SIMPLE, SAVANNAH WALSH REPORTS: A FAMILIAL BOND EVEN A NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH BUSINESS CAN’T BREAK

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN • JEREMY O. HARRIS is a playwright, producer, performer, provocateur, dandy, bon vivant, and depending who you ask, a genius. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, CHRIS MURPHY asks, can Harris keep all the plates spinning?

THE PRICE OF INFAMY • Her father’s mistress—a teenage girl—shot her mother in the head on the front steps of their family home when Jessica Buttafuoco was only nine years old. Now, a figure in one of the most infamous tabloid sagas of the 1990s—hashed and rehashed everywhere from the New York Post to The New York Times, played out in various TV movies starring Drew Barrymore or Alyssa Milano as the Long Island Lolita—is confronting the crime that shaped her whole life

The Team’s Gambit • Many have tried to crack the notoriously tricky musical Chess—but Nicholas Christopher, Lea Michele, and Aaron Tveit might actually pull it off. CHRIS MURPHY reports

BUDDY COMEDY • From his early stand-up days to his work on such instant classics as Freaks and Geeks and Girls, JUDD APATOW has spent a lifetime capturing high hilarity—and hoarding the accompanying snapshots and ephemera. In this exclusive excerpt from his visual memoir, Comedy Nerd, where he shares his trove for the first time, LENA DUNHAM describes the generous guy behind the slapstick

BRUCE ALMIGHTY • When Emma Heming married one of the world’s most famous movie stars, an alpha male with a wink to beat them all, she didn’t imagine the fate that would ultimately befall either of them. Now, as Bruce Willis grapples with frontotemporal dementia, his wife and caregiver tells ANNA PEELE how she is helping others through the experience of the longest goodbye

EXILES IN PARIS • Live music, dancing, and revolution mingle at a popular Parisian watering hole for journalists, activists, and others seeking refuge from their home countries

THE FLORIDA DIVORCÉE’S GUIDE TO MURDER • Published in 1983, Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors inspired a triple murder and led to a major First Amendment test case. Still, the book is just one chapter in the bizarre story of its until-now anonymous author, “Rex Feral,” now a 77-year-old great-grandmother wrestling with decades of guilt

LUCA GUADAGNINO • The director of After the Hunt on the benefits of solipsism and the very first cake he ever baked