Behold, Vanity Fair’s six most popular stories of 2022. Thanks for reading—and cheers to the year ahead.
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How Grey’s Anatomy Writer Elisabeth Finch Used Lies to Create Must-See TV
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For years, a Grey’s Anatomy writer told her personal traumas in online essays, and wove those details into the show’s plot—until a surprising email to Shondaland accused her of making it all up.
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Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets
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They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.
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Dakota Johnson on Persuasion, Family, Sexual Agency—And the “Psychotic” Making of Fifty Shades of Grey
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The star of Persuasion tells VF some surprising truths about her rise as an actor, producer, and fashion muse.
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Rachel Maddow Gives Her First Interview as She Steps Back From the Nightly Grind and Revs Up for Her Next Act
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The cable juggernaut signed a multimillion-dollar contract to not be on the air five nights a week. Now, Maddow opens up about why she’s changing gears, her upcoming projects, her health scares, the Steele dossier, and her surprisingly amiable rapport with Tucker Carlson.
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Inside Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Unlikely Rise and Precipitous Fall at Liberty University
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Jerry Falwell Jr. was the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right. Then a sex scandal rocked his marriage and ended his lucrative stewardship of the evangelical education empire founded by his father.
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Gabby Petito’s Life With—And Death By—Brian Laundrie
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Forensically examining Instagram accounts, interviews, and police reports, author Kathleen Hale reconstructs their relationship, and ultimately Petito’s murder.
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