A Kylian Mbappé profile
The posts have been infrequent here (apart from the occasional treatise on Arsenal Derangement Syndrome) as I’ve gotten a bit swamped at the day job, this past week in particular. I worked on a profile of Kylian Mbappé that published online Tuesday and immediately set off a wave of discussion across French talk shows, newspapers, and comment sections. The French public is debating their superstar captain’s comments about his right to speak out as a citizen like anyone else, all while the far right goes on the attack.
That will be a cover story for Vanity Fair’s Sports Issue, for which I also edited Lindsey Vonn’s first interview following her horrifying crash at the 2026 Olympics. Plus: Franklin Leonard’s report on what the World Cup truly means after he went down to Guadalajara, Mexico to watch three teams—Jamaica, New Caledonia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo—scrap for one last spot at this summer’s tournament. It’s all in the new issue, on newsstands May 26 here in the U.S.