Vanity Fair (thing) by nexxus

(1860 - 1863) Humor magazine, New York, New York

(1913 - present) New York based magazine (originally Dress and Vanity Fair) which today combines the glossy, sycophantic celebrity obsession of, say, People, with some top-notch writing about news, media, film, and politics. Owned by media conglomerate Conde Nast. I had always considered it in the same league with Cosmopolitan or Glamor, or other fashion rags until I started reading the articles. I particularly liked a Gore Vidal piece a few years ago on the rise of Big Brother in the United States.

William Makepeace Thackeray	Conde Nast	Skoptsi	Is Heathcliff a Murderer?
Gore Vidal	Christopher Hitchens	The Unexpected Coming	The greatest line spoken by Keanu Reeves
Sycophant	Mr. Bungle	Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children	On the Cryptic and the Elliptic
W. Mark Felt	supermodel	Spy Magazine	Rumsfeld Doctrine
First Anglo-Afghan War	Piscator and Piscatrix	The Ballad of Bouillabaisse	The Pilgrim's Progress: Part I: Evangelist overtakes Christian and Faithful
Clare Boothe Luce	The Pilgrim's Progress	The Insider