Labor Day may be right around the corner, but there's still time to catch up on summer reads. This season, Vanity Fair's intrepid reporters traveled the globe to uncover gripping, revelatory stories you won't find anywhere else.
There's no better place to start than "True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him." Julie Miller tells the incredible, stranger-than-fiction story of how a stay-at-home mother, kidnapped for hours by a rampaging murderer, tapped into her Christian faith and transformed both of their lives.
Over in the South of France, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie turned Miraval, the vineyard they bought as a family getaway, into a lucrative wine operation—only to go to war over its future after an altercation on a private plane prompted Jolie to file for divorce. Mark Seal uncorks the saga of how the couple rode the rosé wave, only to see their family torn to pieces.
This June, the world held its breath awaiting news of the submersible that disappeared during an underwater voyage to visit the remains of the Titanic. But for experts and insiders who had long argued that its parent company, OceanGate, was taking reckless risks, there was a simple, heartbreaking explanation: The Titan submersible was simply unfit to descend to such dangerous depths. Best-selling author Susan Casey, a veteran of the field, reveals why their prescient warnings were ignored.
There has been no shortage of warnings about California, a state whose golden reputation has been torched by a housing crisis, crime, and the acrid smoke of uncontrolled forest fires. Canvassing everyone from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg to TV writers, actors, and a sharpshooting self-defense guru, Joe Hagan dares to ask: "Can anyone fix California?"
As the WGA and SAG strikes drag on with no resolution in sight, it's worth considering what led writers and actors in the entertainment industry to demand better. In an excerpt from her new book, Maureen Ryan documents the behind-the-scenes dysfunction on the set of the legendary series Lost. From racial and sexual discrimination to bullying and toxic behavior, Ryan dug up enough damning issues to prompt executive producer Damon Lindelof to admit: "I failed."
We hope you'll get as much out of reading these features as we got out of crafting them. Thanks, and we'll be back with a whole new batch of gripping narratives and in-depth investigations this fall!
Best,
Mike Hogan
Executive digital director, Vanity Fair
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