The Fyre Festival of Ballet; Knives Out for Trump’s MAGA Base; Becoming Monica Lewinsky

Plus: A Preview of Fall Festival Season’s Most Anticipated Films [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Weekly]( A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR September 2, 2021 [THE BIG READ]( [They Started a Ballet Company. It Ended in Death]( By Alice Robb [The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.]( [Read More]( If someone forwarded you this email, [sign up for “Cocktail Hour” here](. [ENTER THE DRAGONS]( [The Race to Inherit Trump’s MAGA Base]( By Gabriel Sherman [With the 2024 election in sight, Republican presidential contenders such as Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, and Mike Pompeo are scrambling to claim the party’s base. That is, unless his MAGA-ness himself gets in the ring.]( [Read More]( [CHARACTER BUILDING]( [To Become Monica Lewinsky, Beanie Feldstein Had to Feel Her Pain]( By Julie Miller [“I just really dug down deep and was like, ‘This is for Monica,’” says the Impeachment: American Crime Story star—especially when reenacting Lewinsky’s betrayal by Linda Tripp.]( [Read More]( [EXTREMELY ONLINE]( [Doomscrolling Through the Climate Catastrophe Outside Your Window]( By Delia Cai [In accordance with all the horrors we’ve witnessed live on Twitter, the inevitable floodwaters arrived in New York on Wednesday night. It was as horrifying as it was uncanny.]( [Read More]( [U.S. OPEN]( [Reilly Opelka’s Radical Honesty]( By Nathan Taylor Pemberton [The fantastically tall, magnificently bearded, art-gallery-sponsored U.S. pro with the unhittable serve is probably not the savior American men’s tennis is forever in search of. He seems fine with that.]( [Read More]( [THE BUYLINE]( [The Best New Books—And Shoes]( By Keziah Weir [Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore in the season’s best ballet flats.]( [Read More]( [AWARDS INSIDER]( [The 19 Most Anticipated Films at the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals]( By Vanity Fair [On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, an in-depth look at the festivals that kick off the fall moviegoing season.]( [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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.