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Vanity Fair

By now, you're already well aware of the big winners from last night's Academy Awards. You've heard about The Hurt Locker's semi-sweep and Kathryn Bigelow shattering of the glass ceiling. You know that Sandra Bullock cries and the Dude abides and blah, bl

The Oscar-winning director of Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and this month’s Shutter Island describes his funny walk, his inability to cook, and his issue with the word “wonderful.”

In recession-battered Britain, where class divisions run deep, Tory leader David Cameron is a master of congenial compromise—and the likely next prime minister. Michael Wolff examines how the aristocratic Cameron and his Conservative Party have defused

Blue-chiseling the Ten Commandments, Christopher Hitchens decrees which should stay and which should go, adding a few new ones of his own.

Harold Ford Jr. on his senate hopes, Derek Jeter, and his Merrill Lynch bonus.

Though the media tend to focus on a handful of superstars, no fewer than 2,600 athletes competed in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics—every one of whom represents the best the world has to offer. Setting up shop in an apartment in town, VF.com invited a wide

The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s Angriest Newspaper.

John Richardson spotlights Matisse’s Goldfish and Palette, which has a hidden message from the master.

Johnny Cash thought his recording career was over. Then he met legendary producer Rick Rubin. Together, Nashville’s Man in Black and the co-founder of Def Jam records made a decade’s worth of astonishing albums, culminating with the new American V. Bu

Ruven Afanador and Laura Jacobs spotlight the transatlantic triumph of Spanish dance sensation Angel Corella.