James Clyburn on George Floyd’s Killing; The Secrets of Emmy-Worthy TV; and More

[Plus: The Unsolved Mystery of Everest’s First Summit]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair’s Cocktail Hour Newsletter]( A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks May 29, 2020 [James Clyburn on George Floyd’s Killing and the Race Card Election Ahead]( [Clyburn, who helped hand Biden his presumptive nomination, talks about Biden’s “you ain’t black” and V.P. possibilities, and why this moment is defined by “raw politics and meanness.”]( [READ MORE »]( [Behind the Scenes of Eight Emmy-Worthy TV Shows]( [The masterminds of The Mandalorian, Succession, Better Call Saul, Euphoria, and more tell all.]( [READ MORE »]( [In One of His Final Interviews Larry Kramer, 84 and Infirm, Still Roared]( [As COVID was beginning to lay siege to the country, who else to turn to but the resilient AIDS activist and writer who raged so hard against the plague that preceded it? One reporter recalls his last interview with a longtime subject.]( [READ MORE »]( [The Weird, True Stories That Inspired The Vast of Night]( [Bizarre recordings. Lights in the sky. Missing people. It all really happened—and only some of the stories have explanations.]( [READ MORE »]( [The Day Oil Went Negative]( [On April 20, oil prices dropped below zero for the first time in trading history, leaving industry insiders shell-shocked and scrambling. “Not only have we been consistently wrong,” says one, “we have been wrong on an order of magnitude more than anyone could conceive.”]( [READ MORE »]( [Zara Tindall]( [Why Are the Royal Family’s Rules About Money So Confusing?]( [On Thursday, Zara and Mike Tindall announced a partnership with a tech company for a health passport app, and it could be lucrative for the queen’s relatives.]( [READ MORE »]( [From the Archive: The Riddle of Everest]( [Seventy-five years after the disappearance of famed British climber George Mallory and his protégé, Sandy Irvine, five young Americans scaled the long-forbidden, corpse-strewn North Face of Mount Everest in search of answers to an enduring mystery: was Mallory the first man to reach the top? On the 67th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s legendary summit, revisit Bryan Burrough’s story of the 1999 search: the clues they followed, the breathtaking realization of what they’d found, and the new evidence of how an impetuous explorer may have met his icy death.]( [READ MORE »]( [][Vanity Fair]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( 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.