Contents

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I don't know where this

world is headed, but it seems to get more and more surreal."

—YOUNG MAZING

Vanities

20 / Opening Act

Young Mazino navigates Hollywood.

26 / Trending

Channeling the elegant forms of modernist artist Ruth Asawa.

27 / Books

Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen on his latest collection.

28 / My Stuff

New Balance sneakers, a chair by Rick Owens, and more of Jessica McCormack's must-haves.

29 / The Gallery

Delicate florals inspire a diamondcollar necklace.

Columns

30 Anatomy of a Fall

Inside the final hours of Kamala Harris's fateful campaign.

By Chris Whipple

33 Gossip Girls

Unpacking the right-wing media's obsession with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

By David Canfield

16 Editor's Letter

18 Contributors

98 Proust Questionnaire

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The April Issue] No. 767

Features

34 Gwyneth Everlasting

Oscar winner and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow on MAHA, her empty nest, and a return to the movies. By Michelle Ruiz Photographs by Ned Rogers

52 Trial by Fire

Searing images from this winter's Los Angeles wildfires— and their aftermath.

Photographs and text by Stuart Palley

64 Style Driver

Spring fashion with Simone Ashley of Bridgerton and Brad Pitt's movie Fl.

By Rebecca Ford

Photographs by Camilla Akrans

72 God Complex

Amid the feverish zeal to create artificial intelligence, Silicon Valley is also embracing a new old religion: Christianity.

By Zoe Bernard Illustration by Tameem Sankari

78 The Family Business

The shocking story of the Alexander brothers, real estate tycoons who stand accused of rape and sex crimes by women across the country.

By Willem Marx

"Fatal private-jet crashes happen three times a year on average in the United States, with most of them killing everyone on hoard. So far, 2025 has been unusually deadly"

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86 Air of Danger

The jet set is obsessed with flying private, but all the money in the world can't buy them safety.

ByJeNWise

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