How Trumpism Infected the Catholic Church; Borat in the Oscar Race?; and More

Plus: Revisiting the Mystery of Martha Moxley's Murder View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks October 30, 2020   How Donald Trump and Conservative Catholics Formed a Far-Right Alliance Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Bill Barr are in power while QAnon spreads. Some Catholic leaders are loving it. R E A D  M O R E »   31 Great Quarantine Reads, Chosen by the Vanity Fair Staff Presenting the most absorbing, distracting, engaging books we could think of—from epic Russian tragedies to expostulations that are fun to shout. R E A D  M O R E »   The Low-Key Insanity of The Drew Barrymore Show Barrymore plays fast and loose with the daytime TV format. The result is a radically messy, life-affirming trip. R E A D  M O R E »   16 More Fever-Dream Finales for the Trump Show For four years, together and alone, we've quietly authored our own endings to the Trumpian roller coaster, whether in a week or another 100 years. Here, writers, poets, and politicos—from Susan Orlean to Gary Shteyngart to Rumaan Alam—weigh in with ideas of their own. R E A D  M O R E »   Carmen Maria Machado Reviews the Season's Fragrances The author lends her nose and dark lyricism to the latest scents, finding notes of nostalgia, apocalypse, and creature comforts. R E A D  M O R E »   Did Borat 2 Really Just Enter the Oscar Race? On this week's Little Gold Men podcast, a plea on behalf of Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova, plus a conversation with On the Rocks writer and director Sofia Coppola. R E A D  M O R E »   From the Archive: Trail of Guilt For nearly a quarter-century after 15-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in the exclusive Greenwich, Connecticut, enclave of Belle Haven, police were stymied. Finally, in 2000, Michael Skakel, son of a wealthy neighbor and nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was indicted for murder—only to have his conviction overturned in 2018. Now, with prosecutors declining to try Skakel again, revisit Dominick Dunne's deep dive on the case, from a rumor heard at the William Kennedy Smith trial to shocking revelations by two informants—and a town that still may hold secrets about a girl's violent death. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY 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 our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.