Vanity Fair US Magazine - June 2025

In this issue

A Dose of Reality
One way to enliven the Emmys? Embrace TV’s inner Housewife.
By John Ross
Illustration by Dewey Saunders

A Study in Scarlett
A movie fixture since her childhood, Scarlett Johansson has a new franchise under her belt and a new title on her CV: feature-film director.
By David Canfield
Photographs by Lachlan Bailey

Road to Damascus
Reporting from a newly liberated Syria, a veteran war correspondent finds a country haunted by trauma and, in many places, daring to hope.
By Janine di Giovanni

MOLLY GORDON writes her own ticket

“I’ve never been in something that people watch,” says Molly Gordon, “which is a very different experience.”

3 mins

Revenge PLOT

Nearly 20 years post-Oprah brouhaha, JAMES FREY is back with a sexy, funny novel that's headed straight to the screen

2 mins

Special TREATMENT

With high-tech beauty offerings at the freshly renovated Hôtel Plaza Athénée and a new location in Portofino, Dior spas are redesigning wellness

2 mins

Full SCREEN

At 20, YouTube has hosted billions of videos, launched stars—and made Hollywood nervous.

10 mins

When HOLLYWOOD COMES KNOCKING, successful creators increasingly consider it a side gig.

YouTube has a very strong reason to want to gain more legitimacy from the greater society, so that they don’t find themselves lumped in with other social media platforms being accused of destroying civilization.”

2 mins

A Dose of REALITY

The Emmys would be less—what's the word?—boring if they stopped snubbing the grand circus of reality TV By John Ross

2 mins

PEAK TV

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER ITS DEBUT, DAVID LYNCH'S TWIN PEAKS STILL EXUDES PARANORMAL COOL. FOR ITS OBSESSIVE FANSINCLUDING MANY BORN AFTER IT FIRST AIRED-THE MYSTERY IS THE MESSAGE

10+ mins

Kathy Bates

She hasn't always been on “the A-team going to Ibiza or whatever”— and thank heavens for that. A candid interview with a legend in a league of her own

10+ mins

ROAD ΤΟ DAMASCUS

Returning to anewly liberated Syria, veteran war correspondent JANINE DI GIOVANNI discovers a nation wary of its untested leaders, haunted by five decades of trauma, and yet imbued with hope and possibility

10+ mins

BEST in SHOWS

UNDER JOHN LANDGRAF'S LEADERSHIP, FX HAS BECOME A FACTORY OF PRESTIGE HITS BY NOT ACTING LIKE A FACTORY. INSIDE THE MIND OF THE STREAMING INDUSTRY'S WISE MAN—AND THE STUDIO THAT GAVE US THE BEAR, SHOGUN, FARGO, AND MORE

10+ mins

THE LONG GOODBYE

Erica Jong, feminist icon and literary celebrity, was a dominant force in the culture—and my life. Watching my mother slide into dementia is a reminder of the fleeting nature of fame.

10+ mins

KEVIN BACON

The Bondsman actor on marriage, bullshit, and his perfectly unique nose

2 mins

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