Peter Beard’s Fraught Legacy; How Gabby Giffords Outsmarted the NRA; Secrets of The Great British Baking Show

Plus: Meghan Markle, Politician? View in your browser | Update your preferences A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR September 24, 2020 THE BIG READ How Gabby Giffords Outsmarted the NRA By Dave Cullen Less than a decade after being shot in the head at close range, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords is closer than you think to redefining America's relationship with guns. Read More If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for "Cocktail Hour" here. FROM THE MAGAZINE The Legend of Peter Beard By Stacey Stowe The artist and bon vivant lived a spectacular life, but in death, shadows loom over his legacy. Read More DUCHESS IN CHIEF Will Meghan Markle Run for President? By Katie Nicholl Her representatives insist she has no plan to enter politics, but a close friend suggests it's the main reason she didn't give up her American citizenship when marrying into the royal family. Read More HIGH NOTE Sufjan Stevens on Making Pop Music in a Crisis By Erin Vanderhoof On his new album, The Ascension, out this week, the musician grapples with problems both personal and political, and draws inspiration from Ariana Grande. Read More SCOTUS OPERANDI "Noise Favors Trump": Inside Biden's Post-RBG Strategy By Chris Smith As the Supreme Court battle roils the media-sphere, Democrats want their candidate to stay the course. "This has been an incredibly stable race," a campaign pollster says. Read More PERSON OF INTEREST Chloë Sevigny Is the New Mom on the Block By Laura Regensdorf The actor, who plays an Army colonel in Luca Guadagnino's HBO series, We Are Who We Are, talks about postpartum life and her pillars of New York, from an East Village apothecary to neighbor Patti Smith. Read More CRUMBS! Inside The Great British Baking Show's Pandemic Production Bubble By Julie Miller The producers of television's most soothing program tell V.F. how they went full Mission: Impossible to (safely!) film a new season mid-pandemic, and deliver it to a crisis-plagued audience. Read More HOLLYWOOD HISTORY What Ever Became Of the Ax From The Shining? By Anthony Breznican Forty years later, Vanity Fair searches for Jack Nicholson's weapon of terror. Read More FROM THE ARCHIVE Remembering Breonna By Ta-Nehisi Coates As the country struggles to digest the Breonna Taylor grand jury outcome, revisit Ta-Nehisi Coates's cover story profile from the September issue. Read More This e-mail was sent to you byVANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address,vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View ourPrivacy PolicyUnsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020.One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.