TRAGEDY
The Devil at 37,000 Feet
In 2006, a business jet and a Boeing 737 collided high above the Amazon in one of the most improbable aviation disasters in history. Delving into the cockpit recordings, William Langewiesche finds the blame lies as much in state-of-the-art technology as in human error. Plus: Hear the in-flight audio from both planes.
January Issue Cover story
Hollywood
Cadillac Records: The True Story
V.F. CLASSICS
Dominick Dunne on O.J., Sunny Von Bülow, and More
Mr. and Mrs. Right
AIDAN HARTLEY
REAL ESTATE
DOMINICK DUNNE: O.J. Simpson deserves his sentence
THE ECONOMY: Big banking’s big comedown
OBAMAZINES: What if editors gave in to their Obama crushes?
LITTLE GOLD MEN: Vanity Fair’s early Oscar picks
Epic Envy: Canada commissions its own damn movie
COVER STORY
Tina FeyMR. AND MRS. RIGHT
Remembering the BuckleysSCANDAL
The Man in the Rockefeller SuitTHE ECONOMY
High Society’s Big ComedownREAL ESTATE
Drama at the PlazaCRIME
Brooklyn’s Undercover MotherPROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
Katie CouricEDITOR’S LETTER
Never Too Late for Some Final Acts of VenalityTHE VANITIES GIRLS
Rebecca Hall (coming soon)TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 2009
Letter from Saigon
Dave HICKEY
ConspiracieS
FEMINISM
Can Michelle Obama End the Mommy Wars?
SATIRE
A Russian Trophy Wife’s Lament
anatomy of a fight
The Oscar De La Hoya Chronicles
Maureen Orth
Douglas Brinkley
Nancy Jo Sales
Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
BEAUTY
THE BEST-DRESSED LIST
DECEMBER 2008
NOVEMBER 2008
OCTOBER 2008
SEPTEMBER 2008
JULY 2008
OUR TANGLED WEB
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
DAVID KAMP
Annie Leibovitz
Hip Hop
Bruce Feirstein
How to Apply for Your Own Bailout
CITY GIRL
London’s Lost Generation of Bankers
Niall Ferguson
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
APOCALYPSE DOW
The Stock Market’s Biggest Losers
POWER
Frank DiGiacomo
Cadillac Records: The True Story
SHOW BUSINESS
Is the Recession Hitting Hollywood?
SLIDE SHOW
Annie Leibovitz’s H0llywood Covers
Bruce Handy
SLIDE SHOW
STYLE
Cindy McCain’s $300,000 Outfit
HOLLYWOOD
Motown At 50
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
CELEBRITY
Behind the Scenes with Amy Adams
ROYALTY
Kate Middleton’s British Conquest
Michael Wolff
The Secrets of Rupert Murdoch’s Succession
News Blues
James Wolcott on the New Dystopia
DIARY
The Trials and Tribulations of Dominick Dunne
ARCHIVE
Vanity Fair’s Year in Photos
Capturing—and often defining—the Zeitgeist, Vanity Fair’s photographers this year shot everyone from Miley Cyrus to Tina Fey, to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Take a look back with our early retrospective.
