Shrimp, Speed, and Scott Stapp:My VIP Weekend at the Indy 500

IN CONVERSATION

Melissa Febos Tells EmilyRatajkowski What She LearnedFrom Her Year Without Sex

by Emily Ratajkowski

BACKSTAGE

LaTanya Richardson JacksonTells George C. Wolfe WhyPurpose Is the Role of a Lifetime

by George C. Wolfe

IN CONVERSATION

“A Laugh Is Like an Orgasm”:Paul W. Downs Tells Susie EssmanHow Hacks Became Reality

by Susie Essman

SMOKE BREAK

Qween Jean Wants New Yorkersto Vote (and Then Vogue)

by Ary Russell

OPENING

Adrien Brody Wants You to KnowHe’s Serious About His Art

by Emily Sandstrom
Candace Bushnell

OFF MENU

Sex and the City’s CandaceBushnell Is Still Playing Herself

by Taylore Scarabelli

sound advice

Release Your Rage to This Jogging Playlist, Courtesy of Mel Ottenberg

May 28, 2025

For this week’s installment of Sound Advice, our editor-in-chief made us a sweaty a sweaty, high-energy playlist titled “EVIL JOG.”

SEARCH HISTORY

TikTok Hottie Jack Innanen Is Making the Pivot to TV. He’s Still Blasting Chief Keef.

May 28, 2025

In this week’s Search History, the 25-year-old star of FX’s “Adults” joined us to talk millennials, flight radar, nude sleepers, and the “American Psycho” remake.

WALK THROUGH

How Poetry Inspired Artist Lotus L. Kang’s Uninhabitable Greenhouse at 52 Walker

May 28, 2025

“I’m offering you to enact your own internal experience,” says the Toronto-born, New York-based artist of her new installation “Already,” now on view at 52 Walker.

SEEK HELP

“Be Kind to the Busted Bricks”: Lushious Massacr Kicks Off Our Advice Column

May 28, 2025

In the first installment of our new advice column, the internet sensation fields questions from Interview readers about love, lying, and wriggling your way out of a curse.

TINSELTOWN

“Haunted by the Ghost of Hollywood”: Inside Ryan Murphy’s New Suite at the Chateau Marmont

May 27, 2025

After spending the first few years of his career bunkered down at the Chateau Marmont, the writer and director now has a permanent office at the storied hotel, designed in collaboration with L.A. gallerist Trevor Cheney.

RORSCHACH TEST

“I’m the Big Dick Bitch”: Ts Madison on Tucking, Tariffs, and the Diddy Trial

May 27, 2025

In this week’s Rorschach Test, the “Outlaws” host sounds off on liars, vaping, and porn addicts—and tells us why Pride has become “a corporate sex party.”

BTS

Inside the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival, From the Stars to the Stragglers

May 26, 2025

At this year’s edition of the iconic film festival, we asked the Spanish photographer Francesc Planes to document Cannes as it really is: stylish, sunburnt, and crawling with canines.

SOUND ADVICE

Artist Lizzi Bougatsos Made Us a Playlist Inspired by Valentino and Vinyls

May 23, 2025

“With this set, I was musing on a woman’s mind through the instrumentation of frantic guitar, pleading, and loss,” says the experimental musician and underground legend.

RETROSPECTIVE

Grimes, Ridley Scott, and Others Tell Us How Designer Syd Mead Invented the Future

May 23, 2025

To celebrate the opening of “Future Pastime,” a new retrospective on the work of the “Blade Runner” designer, we asked his collaborators and admirers to reflect on his legacy.

CHEERS

“Ma’am, Please Put the Joint Out”: Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz Join Us for a Champagne Shower

May 23, 2025

At the Tate Modern for the launch of Dom Perignon’s latest campaign, we asked Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz to complete the Warhol questionnaire.

COOKED

Why I’m Breaking Up With Hillstone

May 22, 2025

In the first installment of Cooked, Interview’s new food editor J Lee returns to Hillstone, the much-mythologized chain of restaurants he once loved. 

BESTIES

“There’s an Unspoken Mind Meld”: When King Princess Met Christine Baranski

May 22, 2025

On the set of “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the 26-year-old musician found a friend and mentor in Christine Baranski. Here, the besties link up to talk shamans, showtunes, and “lesbian bed death.”

RORSCHACH TEST

“If You’re Poor, Stay Away”: Phaedra Parks on Peaches, Prenups, and Pope Francis

May 22, 2025

Before making her grand return to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” the perennial fan-favorite took the hot seat for this week’s installment of the Rorschach Test.

IN CONVERSATION

Lily McInerny and Kaia Gerber on Heartbreak, Hedonism, and Healing on Camera

May 21, 2025

“There was a version of myself before shooting this film and a version of myself after,” says the 26-year-old “Bonjour Tristesse” star. “And I like the version of myself after a lot more.”

CLICK

In Chessa Subbiondo’s Photographs, Hot Girls Are Always Crying

May 21, 2025

The photographer joined us to explain how she cultivated her icy, deadpan vision in her first photography book, “SPLINT.”

BADDIE

Rachel Chinouriri Wants You to Stop Drinking the Dumb Bitch Juice

May 21, 2025

Ahead of her US tour, the British pop star joined us to talk about cutting off toxic exes, finding little luxuries on the road, and opening for Sabrina Carpenter.

HISTORY

Thanks to Tourmaline, the Long-Awaited Biography of Marsha P. Johnson Is Here.

May 20, 2025

“I feel really blessed to have come up in a political community where we were receiving the gift of Marsha’s freedom movement,” the author told writer Journey Streams.

SOUNDCHECK

“We Met on Tinder”: From Berlin to Brooklyn with Electronic Duo Brutalismus 3000

May 20, 2025

While nursing a hangover, the German duo joined us backstage at Brooklyn’s Avant Gardener to talk soulmates, aliens, CEO killers, and “techno snobs.”

BACKSTAGE

For Colman Domingo, Telling the Story of Nat “King” Cole Was Personal

May 19, 2025

“You’re basically dynamite and I’m sugar this whole time,” Domingo told NYTW artistic director Patricia McGregor, with whom he’s co-written a play about Nat “King” Cole.

LOL

“Let’s Monetize This Friendship”: Will Forte, in Conversation With Seth Meyers

May 16, 2025

“I will follow her to the ends of the earth,” Forte said of his “The Four Seasons” co-star Tina Fey. “She’s as good as it gets.”

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