Inside Jeff Bezos’s Obsession With Space
Plus: Unpacking Fashion at the US Open
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September 10, 2026

You already know that this fall will bring a host of projects that dive into the minds of tech villains from Mark Zuckerberg (in The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network) to Sam Altman (in Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial) to Elon Musk (in Alex Gibney’s Musk) to Elizabeth Holmes (in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s top-secret You Can See Everything) to Sam Bankman-Fried (in the Netflix series The Altruists). But what about Jeff Bezos?! Though Amazon’s resident space freak isn’t getting his own movie this year, he is at the center of author Jacob Weisberg’s evocatively named nonfiction book Profiles in Cowardice, which VF is exclusively excerpting today. Read on to learn more about Bezos’s curious journey from nerd to billionaire to Trump collaborator. (Or maybe, considering everything we know about Bezos’s cohort, the journey is actually not so curious.)


Elsewhere, VF is headed to Toronto for the last of the early-September film festivals. Here are the movies we’re most looking forward to catching up north, in between furtive trips to stock up on whey, cane molasses, and ride mopeds. (Thanks, Donald Trump!) More tomorrow.

HILLARY BUSIS
FEATURES EDITOR

In an exclusive excerpt from Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era, Jacob Weisberg paints a revealing portrait of Bezos, from a science-fiction-loving schoolboy with dreams of being an astronaut to a billionaire hell-bent on getting what he wants. Read more


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9/11 ANNIVERSARY

 

9/11 Changed the World in Many Ways. It Also Spawned the Digital Media Era

 

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With shock and awe, the attacks altered an already image-saturated media ecosystem—and so much more. Read more

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Are Southern Sisters With Secrets in The Good Daughter First Look

 

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Byrne and Fahy speak to VF about playing sisters whose lives are forever altered by a violent home invasion in childhood, then disrupted again by a school shooting that reunites them as adults. Read more

17 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at the Toronto Film Festival

 

By John Ross, Hillary Busis, and Wengel Gemu

 

From a project starring Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith to a documentary on global pop star Lisa to a film about the making of Rocky, these are some of the most exciting films to premiere at TIFF. Read more


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STYLE

 

Carlos Alcaraz’s Nipplegate and Naomi Osaka’s High Fashion Play: Unpacking the Fashion at the US Open

 

By José Criales-Unzueta

 

With influencers on the bleachers and high fashion on the court, the US Open has become a hotbed for fashion this year.