“I Refuse to Let the Industry Consume Me”: Shawn Mendes, by John Mayer

NYFF

Paul Schrader on Faith, Facebook, and Bisexual Awareness

by Jeremy O. Harris

COVER

“Yo, Get Out My Room”: North West, in Conversation With Her Mom

by Kim Kardashian

RORSCHACH TEST

Claudia Conway on Hunter Biden, Alternative Facts, and Project 2025

by Zak Stone
Isabelle Huppert

NYFF

“I Like to Be Alone on Stage”: 15 Minutes With Isabelle Huppert

by Taylore Scarabelli

COVER

The Anthony Edwards Era Has Arrived

by Chris Tucker

COVER

Jennifer Lopez Tells Nikki Glaser How a Turbulent Summer Changed Her

by Nikki Glaser

GAY

How Marwan Kaabour Wrote the Definitive Guide to Queer Arab Slang

October 11, 2024

The London-based graphic designer and linguist paid us a visit on his North American book tour to talk about “The Queer Arab Glossary.”

OFF MENU

The Paige DeSorbo Guide to Being an Italian-American Princess

October 11, 2024

In this month’s installment of Off Menu, we took “Summer House” star Paige DeSorbo to New York’s hottest new Italian spot for a lesson in spaghetti and meatballs.

REMAKE

Nathalie Emmanuel Tells Omar Sy About Life On Set With Francis Ford Coppola

October 10, 2024

The “Game of Thrones” star tells her friend and former co-star how she kept Francis Ford Coppola’s secrets on the great, big set of his comeback film, “Megalopolis.”

LIT

Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake, Political Fiction, and Staying Off Twitter

October 10, 2024

The award-winning novelist joined us to talk about her latest book, “Creation Lake,” and the writers who inspire her, from Don DeLillo to Cormac McCarthy.

SOUNDCHECK

“The Internet Is Basically One Giant Cop”: Backstage at MSG With Jack Antonoff

October 9, 2024

We joined the Bleachers frontman backstage to find out what he’s learned playing alongside Taylor Swift and why he isn’t listening to “bots and shitheads” on the internet.

NYFF

“It’s Fucking Bullocks, Basically”: 45 Minutes With Hard Truths Director Mike Leigh

October 9, 2024

The Palme d’Or-winning “Hard Truths” director met up with Jeremy O. Harris to talk about the troubled state of cinema and why Los Angeles is a “tedious place to be.”

SMOKE BREAK

“It’s My Dark, Twisted Fantasy”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Filmmaker Olmo Schnabel

October 9, 2024

At the Roxy Cinema premiere of his film “Pet Shop Days,” the director shared his thoughts on Oedipal relations, growing up downtown, and working with Willem Dafoe.

Eugene Kotlyarenko

NYFF

Filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko Gets Freaky in the Criterion “Bangbus”

October 8, 2024

The director talks depravity and John Waters ahead of the New York premiere of his latest film, “The Code.”

ICON

“How Do You Feel About Getting Old?”: Robert Longo, in Conversation With Richard Price

October 8, 2024

Before the opening of Longo’s comeback show, “Searchers,” the artist talked to his friend Richard Price about burnout, filmmaking blunders, and the pleasures and pitfalls of getting older.

NYFF

“You Can’t Put Me in Any Box”: 30 Minutes With Filmmaker Mati Diop

October 8, 2024

“I always felt much more heard and understood than in France,” the director told Jeremy O. Harris of New York City after the NYFF premiere of her sophomore feature, “Dahomey.”

STUDIO VISIT

Sculptor Brian Oakes on Fedora Guys and Sorting Machines

October 7, 2024

At Blade Study, where his show “SEED” is on view this month, the artist talked to us about dioramas, “fedora guys,” and why pressing buttons is compulsive.

NYFF

“I’m Optimistic for the Collective Soul”: 30 Minutes With Filmmaker Jacques Audiard

October 7, 2024

After the NYFF premiere of his genre-bending musical crime thriller “Emilia Perez,” the French director met up with Jeremy O. Harris to talk fear and Fosse.

OUTSIDE

“I’m an Adrenaline Junkie”: Bar Hopping With DJ John Summit

October 7, 2024

Only a few hours after getting punched in the face in Times Square, the DJ and party boy John Summit joined us in the Lower East Side to talk bottles and baddies.

SCREEN TIME

How Lauren Greenfield Captured the Reality of Growing Up Online in Social Studies

October 4, 2024

The master documentarian joined us at New York’s Roxy Cinema to talk Instagram-face, comparison culture, and her sobering new mini-series, “Social Studies.”

NYFF

RaMell Ross Wanted to Play in the NBA. Now He’s Opening New York Film Festival.

October 4, 2024

Just after opening New York Film Festival, the director of “Nickel Boys” joined Jeremy O. Harris to talk astrology, art school, and abandoning his hoop dreams to make movies.

NYFF

Curator Dennis Lim Takes Us Inside the 62nd New York Film Festival

October 4, 2024

A few days into the New York Film Festival, Jeremy O. Harris sat down with programmer Dennis Lim to discuss this year’s formally diverse slate of movies.

RORSCHACH TEST

TikTok King Bach Buquen Is Hot, Viral, and French

October 3, 2024

The dancing social media sensation gives us the skinny on boomers, baguettes, and classical music.

PICABIA

“I Don’t Believe in Meaning”: Getting Existential With the Painter Harold Ancart

October 3, 2024

“I don’t think that painting is by any means an extremely serious activity,” says the artist, who walked us through his new show at Fleiss-Vallois, “7 Paintings and 1 Painting.”

WOMEN

“How Does It Feel to Be So Funny?”: Natasha Rothwell, in Conversation With Quinta Brunson

October 3, 2024

To mark the release of her new series, “How to Die Alone,” the writer and actor talked to the Emmy-winning “Abbott Elementary” creator about death, comedy, and “fine-ass men.”

SEARCH HISTORY

Meet Naima Troutt, the College Student Who Owned Charlie Kirk

October 2, 2024

In this week’s installment of Search History, we DM’d the newly famous USC senior to find out how life has changed since she went head-to-head with Charlie Kirk about abortion rights.

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