LOS ANGELES
John Tottenham on His Debut Novel Service, an Ode to Bookstores and Bohemians
May 15, 2025
To mark the release of his sardonic debut novel, “Service,” the LA-based poet joined us to talk gentrification, yellow drugs, and name-dropping.
SHRINK
Falling in Love With Your Therapist? Adelaide Faith Wrote a Novel For You.
May 14, 2025
“To me, writing has always seemed similar to therapy,” said the author of “Happiness Forever,” out this week. “I told my therapist about my transference in the same way that Sylvie does in the novel.”
IN CONVERSATION
Rosie Stockton and Rachel Kushner on Pump Jacks, Death Drives, and the Uses of Metaphor
May 13, 2025
“It’s a book of climate catastrophe,” the poet says of “Fuel,” her latest collection now out with Nightboat Books. “It strives to reckon with despair on multiple scales.”
NEWCOMER
Wally Baram of Overcompensating Tells Kyle MacLachlan How She Gets Into Flow State
May 12, 2025
The stand-up comic and breakout star of Prime’s “Overcompensating” joined her co-star Kyle MacLachlan to talk about the thrills—and nerves—of her very first acting job.
ICON
Founding Editor Gerard Malanga Takes Us Back to the Early Days of Interview
May 9, 2025
To mark the release of a new monograph, “Gerard Malanga’s Secret Cinema,” the photographer joined us to look back on a life spent in and around Warhol’s Factory.
Y2K
Jonathan Lyndon Chase on Baggy Jeans, Conjoined Triplets, and Their Acne Studios Takeover
May 8, 2025
To mark their pop-up exhibition of ceramics and sculptures at the Acne Studios store in SoHo, the artist joined us to talk dupes, denim, and feeling nostalgic for the mall.
BACKSTAGE
Kip Williams Tells Rose Byrne How He Pulled Off the Epic Technological Feats of Dorian Gray
May 8, 2025
Just after receiving a Tony nomination for “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the director joined fellow Australian Rose Byrne to talk Oscar Wilde, mass surveillance and, of course, Beyoncé.
SOUND ADVICE
“I Trust Very Few People With the Aux”: Grace VanderWaal Makes Us a Playlist of Esoteric Pop
May 7, 2025
What does the 21-year-old newcomer’s Notes app look like? “Like a woman who needs some serious, serious psychological help,” she told us in this week’s Sound Advice.
RORSCHACH TEST
“Oh, Fuck Off”: Sunita Mani on Tariffs, Allergies, and Intimacy Coordinators
May 7, 2025
In this week’s Rorschach Test, the “Death of a Unicorn” star took the hot seat to sound off on a number of polarizing subjects, from allergies to congestion pricing.
IN CONVERSATION
Getting Up Close and Personal with Painters Emma McIntyre and Richard Hawkins
May 6, 2025
After opening their recent gallery shows in Hong Kong, the two artists caught up about their shared obsessions, from Baudelaire’s poems to the work of historian Michael Levey.
ASK ME ANYTHING
Keith McNally Fields Questions From Friends, Fans, and Balthazar Regulars
May 6, 2025
The Balthazar owner is known to be an open book. Now that he’s written one, we asked fans, friends, and frequent patrons of his restaurants to put him on the hot seat.
MET
Jeremy O. Harris and Met Curator Monica Miller Give Us a Lesson in Black Dandyism
May 5, 2025
“I don’t want to think about the beginning of Black dandyism as happening to Black people,” says the curator of the Costume Institute’s new exhibition. “No, the minute it happened, they understood what it meant.”
FINALE
How Edi Patterson Turned Judy Gemstone Into One of Television’s Funniest Characters
May 5, 2025
“I hope that she can embolden people when they need a laugh or some sneakiness,” says “The Righteous Gemstones” star of her character, Judy Gemstone. “I hope she can Braveheart some bitches.”
IN SESSION
Hannah Zeavin Tells Us Why Psychoanalysis Is About More Than Just Daddy Issues
May 2, 2025
“Freud was not that interested in the mother, really,” says the founder of the psychoanalytic magazine Parapraxis, who’s written a new book that interrogates the intersection of motherhood and technology.
Churchill Downs
Need a Hat For the Kentucky Derby? Milliner Christine A. Moore Can Handle That.
May 2, 2025
While balancing over 75 commissions, the featured milliner at this weekend’s Kentucky Derby invited us to her Manhattan studio to talk hats, fascinators, and Southern hospitality.
OZ
How Did Paul Tazewell Follow Up His Historic Oscar Win? With Death Becomes Her, Of Course.
May 2, 2025
After winning an Oscar for “Wicked,” the costume designer is now a Tony Awards nominee. Between stitches, he told us about his Ohio upbringing and the power of a luscious cravat.
POWER
Little Simz Tells Michaela Coel Why Silence Was Not an Option
May 1, 2025
As she gets set to release her sixth album “Lotus,” the resilient British rapper called up her friend and fellow force of nature to talk about how burnout and betrayal led to an eventual creative breakthrough.
SOUND ADVICE
David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors Is Taking His Musical Talents to the Movies
May 1, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Dirty Projectors frontman celebrated his recent pivot to film by making us the perfect genre-bending playlist.
IN CONVERSATION
Sophie Gilbert and Amanda Hess on MLMs, Motherhood, and Menstrual Tracking Apps
May 1, 2025
“I wanted people to google porn and find feminist criticism instead,” says the author, who joined The New York Times critic Amanda Hess to discuss her new book, “Girl on Girl.”
BACKSTAGE
How Broadway’s Audra McDonald and Joy Woods Made Gypsy Their Own
April 30, 2025
After six months of wowing Broadway audiences in the critically acclaimed “Gypsy” revival, its two stars stopped by the Interview offices to talk about becoming Rose and Louise.
