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The Stars We Lost in 2020 View in your browser | Update your preferences A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR December 17, 2020 DISHONOR ROLL The Stories and Lies of Jess Krug Hari Ziyad A white woman who lied about being Black tested my personal bonds—ones with my friends, ones with my community, and ones with my own identity. Read More If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for "Cocktail Hour" here. TURN THE PAGE Turning the Page on the Trump-Book Bonanza Joe Pompeo Mary Trump, Bob Woodward, and fellow presidential chroniclers dominated 2020 best-seller lists. Despite an emerging Joe and Kamala canon, the past four years aren't completely in the rearview. "There's still this search for meaning," says one author. Read More SPIN CYCLE The Year Peloton Became Must-Watch TV Kenzie Bryant As the world (including gyms) shut down, the star instructors on the popular fitness app captured Americans' imaginations—while toning their glutes. Read More TESTING, TESTING How the White House Could Have Saved the School Year—But Didn't Katherine Eban One influential philanthropy, which has been advocating for more testing of students and teachers since the early days of the pandemic, says the White House had a simple response when pushed for more testing: The market will figure it out. Read More IN MEMORIAM The Stars We Lost This Year Hillary Busis A tribute to the lives that came to an end this year, from Oscar winners and Hollywood titans to young icons gone too soon. Read More LET THEM EAT COVID “If all you did was look at the coronavirus figures in the U.S…. you might think that the Trump administration's policy was to just sit back and let everyone get this highly contagious, very scary disease. And you wouldn't be wrong!” — Bess Levin on the extreme approach to "herd immunity" put forth by at least one Trump administration official Read More 2020 REWIND The Year in Vanity Fair Photography Vanity Fair Oscar winners, change makers, essential workers, and icons—the people who made 2020 what it was, as captured in the pages of Vanity Fair. Read More 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.