R. Kelly’s Latest Defense; the Legacy of the Literary Jonathans; What’s Next for ‘Jeopardy!’?

Plus: SCOTUS Orders Biden to Reinstate Monstrous Migrant Policy View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks August 25, 2021     The Questionable Results of R. Kelly's Victim-Challenging Defense In the R&B star's federal racketeering trial, his lawyers' scattered approach relies on depicting Kelly's alleged abuse victims as disgruntled fans. R E A D  M O R E »     How Can a Scandal-Plagued Jeopardy! Move Forward? The internet's knee-jerk response—just hire LeVar Burton!—isn't the best solution. R E A D  M O R E »     Review: Candyman Tries to Have Its Cake and Kill It Too Nia DaCosta's reworking of the 1992 horror film, written with Win Rosenfeld and Jordan Peele, is both overly didactic and muddled. R E A D  M O R E »     Are the Literary Jonathans Still Relevant? Novelist Emily Gould takes a hard look at today's publishing landscape—and at how things have changed since Lethem, Franzen, and Safran Foer first appeared on the scene. R E A D  M O R E »     Team Biden Tries to Call the Afghanistan Mess a "Success" The crisis isn't all the Biden administration's fault. But it's still hard to call its handling of the withdrawal a "success," as Jen Psaki and others have described it. R E A D  M O R E »     From the Archive: America's Forgotten War In 2006, only four years into a nearly forgotten conflict, the 20,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan were learning to wage war by every possible means. From Kandahar to the mountains of Zabol, Sebastian Junger experienced a new kind of combat as the world's most powerful military grappled with a vicious small-scale insurgency in the shadow of a supposed U.S. ally: Pakistan. 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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.