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Murder? It’s not just for men anymore. I’m being facetious, but that is sort of the thesis of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s grisly Netflix anthology. As series cocreator Ian Brennan tells Savannah Walsh for an exclusive first look that’s live on VF today, in Borden’s age, “They literally thought that a woman was too weak to pick up an axe…. To be a woman in that period was to be almost a completely different species. You were treated like you were incapable of not only actions, but the thoughts that a man was capable of.” Homicidal feminist pioneer Borden challenged that preconception. Here’s to breaking the glass ceiling, among other things!

Elsewhere, Savannah also catches up with Vanderpump Rules alum Stassi Schroeder, while Rosemary Counter considers a 133-year-old question: If Borden didn’t murder her father and stepmother, then who did? (Spoiler alert: Uh, Borden probably did it.) More tomorrow!

HILLARY BUSIS,
FEATURES EDITOR

Welcome to the Blood-Soaked Feminist Romance of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

BY SAVANNAH WALSH

In their first interviews about the season, costars Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, and Rebecca Hall share how their darkly comic spin on a Victorian-era murder has blown the Monster franchise—plus the odds of a Glee reboot—wide open: “It’s Ryan Murphy Does Cinderella.”

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TELEVISION

Stassi Schroeder Speaks on Her Comeback: “Are We Just All Narcissists?”

BY SAVANNAH WALSH

Schroeder left Vanderpump Rules in a cloud of disgrace. But with her new series, House of Stassi, she hopes to reinvent herself in the genre she knows best by breaking the fourth wall. The reality TV star opens up to VF.

From the Archive

If Lizzie Borden Didn’t Kill Her Wealthy Parents, Who Did?

BY ROSEMARY COUNTER

Nobody knows for sure, which is why the crime has haunted pop culture for over a century—but here, we’ll break down seven other potential suspects, according to Borden experts.

“RFK Jr.”? I’m going to stop you right there. “RFK Jr.’s Cooking”? Somehow, I’m even less interested. “RFK Jr.’s Cooking Show”? Okay, fine: You’ve got my morbid curiosity engaged, though not to the extent that I actually want to watch said show. Thank goodness, then, for Kase Wickman, who sat through 19 minutes and 27 seconds of America’s chief whale decapitator talking salmon cakes with a man who, I am not kidding you, is called “Chef Andrew Gruel”—and lived to tell the tale. What a time to be alive.

Elsewhere, Eve Batey explains how a white-shoe law firm with firmly Democratic bona fides capitulated to Trump. (Maybe it’s because the partners tasted his HHS secretary’s delicious salmon cakes.) More tomorrow!

HILLARY BUSIS,
FEATURES EDITOR

RFK Jr.’s Cooking Show Is Even More Bizarre Than You Could Imagine

BY KASE WICKMAN

Considering the guy is known for all kinds of strangeness in the biome, from protein to emus to brain worms, The Real Food Show is quite the surreal experience.

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POLITICS

The Shock and Turmoil Inside Paul Weiss Following the Trump Capitulation

BY EVE BATEY

A detailed story in The New York Times reveals how Paul Weiss, a firm once famous for civil rights battles and progressive litigation, ultimately caved to the Trump administration.

From the Archive

Day Into Noir

BY ANN DOUGLAS

Between the Great Depression and the start of the Cold War, Hollywood went noir, reflecting the worldly, weary, wised-up undercurrent of midcentury America. In classics such as Laura, Sweet Smell of Success, and Double Indemnity, where the shadows of LA and New York pulse with killers, corpses, and perilous romance, failure is not only a logical option but a smart-talking seduction.

Exploring the genre’s origins, its look, its politics, and its geography, Ann Douglas shows how noir’s poignant cynicism took hold—and why it remains embedded in the national psyche today.