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Did Bryan Kohberger Have an Accomplice? The case of the Idaho student murders is officially closed. But after reviewing newly-released evidence, reporter Howard Blum believes the killer may not have acted alone.

“I have come around to suspecting that Kohberger was not the catalyst for all the horror—that it wasn’t his idea.”

The Beckxit Bombshell, Unpacked From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?

“If Brooklyn continues to follow the Harry playbook like this, we can probably expect a tell-all documentary and book before long.”

A Crans-Montana Nightclub Fire Reckoning, as Owner is Freed from Custody After a fire killed 40 people at the Swiss resort's Le Constellation, many Europeans are demanding answers.

“I sent my kids there because other parents sent their kids there. It sounds terrible, but it’s true.”

Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.

Yerin Ha’s future has “happily ever after” written all over it.

Tyler James Williams's Least Favorite Things The "Abbott Elementary" star dishes in our "Imperfect Ending" questionnaire.

Tyler James Williams’s least favorite present: “Someone else’s headshot.”

George Saunders Returns to the Bardo In "Vigil," his sophomore novel, Saunders tells a Dickensian tale of an unrepentant industrialist on his deathbed.

"A jaunty, irreverent, and constantly surprising sermon on forgiveness."

Switzerland's Val D'Anniviers Offers an Old-School Antidote to Glitzy Gstaad There are no heated gondolas or velvet ropes at this resprt—just snow and Alpine charm.

“Val d’Anniviers is different.”

From Ravenous Piranhas to Bond Villains, the Dark Side of Mike Lynch's Autonomy A new book lays bare the toxic culture that ran rampant at the late tech mogul's beleaguered software company.

“He would regularly scream at his employees when they displeased him.”

Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.

Meet “Bridgerton’s” new leading lady.

An Accordion That's More Than Just a Joke, According to Our Tech-and-Gadgets Columnist The Korg Fisa Suprema is one of the most extraordinary musical instruments you've ever heard, says Jonathan Margolis.

An accordion that’s more than a joke! A digital writing pad by Montblanc! An app for all your recipes! And more.

Did Bryan Kohberger Have an Accomplice? The case of the Idaho student murders is officially closed. But after reviewing newly-released evidence, reporter Howard Blum believes the killer may not have acted alone.

“Was anybody else arrested?”

The Beckxit Bombshell, Unpacked From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?

How inappropriately did Victoria dance, exactly? How does one dance “on” someone?

A Crans-Montana Nightclub Fire Reckoning, as Owner is Freed from Custody After a fire killed 40 people at the Swiss resort's Le Constellation, many Europeans are demanding answers.

“I’m so angry that you left this world at 16, just because you wanted to celebrate New Year’s.”

Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.

“There was a lot of responsibility on my shoulders. [But it] just made me want to prepare as much as I could to be able to give it my all."

Tyler James Williams's Least Favorite Things The "Abbott Elementary" star dishes in our "Imperfect Ending" questionnaire.

Tyler James Williams’s preferred form of revenge: “The pettiest long game.”

George Saunders Returns to the Bardo In "Vigil," his sophomore novel, Saunders tells a Dickensian tale of an unrepentant industrialist on his deathbed.

"As ever in Saunders, poignancy and farce are so wrapped up with one another that we don’t know whether to howl with laughter or with alarm."

Switzerland's Val D'Anniviers Offers an Old-School Antidote to Glitzy Gstaad There are no heated gondolas or velvet ropes at this resprt—just snow and Alpine charm.

“Here, unlike Gstaad or Zermatt, there is a tradition of minimizing the glitz.”

From Ravenous Piranhas to Bond Villains, the Dark Side of Mike Lynch's Autonomy A new book lays bare the toxic culture that ran rampant at the late tech mogul's beleaguered software company.

“Many of the former employees I was in touch with expressed fear of what speaking out would mean—even after Lynch was dead.”

Keeping Up With the Gould-Gessens This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama.

This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama.

Trump’s Tirade on Greenland ... ... from Barry Blitt's sketchbook.

From Barry Blitt’s sketchbook …

The Beckxit Bombshell, Unpacked From his L.A. mansion, prodigal son Brooklyn Beckham has leveled a laundry list of accusations against his parents, Becks and Posh Spice. Is anyone else having déjà vu?

“I have been silent for years.”

Did Bryan Kohberger Have an Accomplice? The case of the Idaho student murders is officially closed. But after reviewing newly-released evidence, reporter Howard Blum believes the killer may not have acted alone.

“If we said there was an accomplice, we’d look like fools for negotiating the plea bargain. The truth is ... there is a lot that we don’t know. Or that we will ever know.”

Yerin Ha is a Modern-Day Cinderella The 28-year-old actress plays a Regency-era princess in the latest season of "Bridgerton"—a role not unlike the modern-day fairy tale she’s living herself.

“They say that your life can change in a day, and mine did.”

A Crans-Montana Nightclub Fire Reckoning, as Owner is Freed from Custody After a fire killed 40 people at the Swiss resort's Le Constellation, many Europeans are demanding answers.

“I went to Le Constellation with my friends. It’s where I had my first kiss.”

After 250 Years, Britain Is Revoking America's Independence King Charles III is reasserting British rule over the colonies formerly known as the United States—as told to humorist Andy Borowitz.

“We lost the colonies because our King went insane. But now the shoe’s on the other bloody foot, isn’t it?”

Inside the Allegations of Skin Rashes and Chlamydia Outbreaks Rocking St. Barth’s “Almost all of the billionaires have been infected with chlamydia": Linda Wells reports.

“I went to St. Barth’s and got a bacterial infection.”

Venezuela, Iran, and Two Nobel Peace Prize Winners Fighting to be Heard Maria Corina Machado and Narges Mohammadi helped ignite the upheavals in their home countries—yet must now resort to extreme measures simply to have a voice.

“If she had turned it down and said: ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today."

Alleged Bribes, Tawdry Text Messages, and the Battle for Miami Beach A contentious bidding process for a prime oceanfront location has pitted Nikki Beach’s owners against Carbone's Major Food Group. Eric Barton reports.

“We’re taking over Nikki Beach.”

The Air Mail Guide to the Thank-You Note In our latest "Notes on an Aesthetic" column, learn how to write the perfect gratitude missive (it's all in the pen and paper).

"Thank-you notes are not a generational relic.… They remain, very simply, the most civilized way to acknowledge effort."

Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Year of Magical Thinking In the span of one year, the poet's husband, Salman Rushdie, was almost killed, and her best friend died suddenly. Her new memoir reckons with these dual traumas.

“My ‘boyfriend’ is three decades older than me. My ‘boyfriend’ is older than my father. My ‘boyfriend’ is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.”