DIPS
Behind the Scenes of GMHC’S 36th Annual Latex Ball
June 23, 2025
On Saturday, New York City’s vibrant ballroom community took over Terminal Five for GHMC’s Latex Ball. We documented it all, down to every last dip, spin, and sequin.
SOUND ADVICE
Rapper Jackzebra Went Apeshit With This Playlist
June 23, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Surf Gang rapper tells us what he’d wear to his own funeral and why American Chinese good isn’t so bad.
SOUND ADVICE
London-Based Producer Mechatok Has Left the Club
June 19, 2025
In week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Bladee, Yung Lean, and Charli XCX sends us a transmission straight from his Berlin bunker.
MEMOIR
“Giving Up Is a Great Source of Happiness”: 30 Minutes With Author Geoff Dyer
June 19, 2025
After the release of his charming new memoir, “Homework,” the 67-year-old writer joined us to talk about conjuring his childhood on the page and giving up on tennis once and for all.
PLAYWRIGHTS
Behind the Scenes of Stage Left, a New Theater Festival By and For the Working Class
June 18, 2025
To celebrate the first iteration of a new theater festival hosted by Working Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition, we asked six contributing playwrights what makes them tick.
NARRATIVE
Charles Melton and Alma Har’el on Trust, Trauma, and Improvisation
June 17, 2025
Ahead of the release of their narrative Coach campaign, the actor and director tell us how they get into character—on screen and off.
SMOKE BREAK
“Nudity Is Just Normal”: Stripping Down With Photographer Marie Tomanova
June 17, 2025
“I grew up in a family where nudity is just normal and nothing weird,” said the photographer at the launch of “Kate, For You,” her new photo book. “It’s kind of a Czech thing.”
COOKED
ThisBowl Will Change Your Life, if You Let It.
June 16, 2025
“What is a bowl?” asks our contributing Food Editor in this dispatch from the trendy Australian chain. “A bowl,” he concludes, “is a canvas on which to paint your desires, your aspirations.”
LOIS
Rachel Brosnahan Gets Amanda Seyfried Ready for Superman Summer
June 16, 2025
The Emmy winner tells her friend why playing Lois Lane in the summer’s biggest blockbuster was a true high-wire act.
HYMNS
Composer Lyra Pramuk Wants to Put You in a Trance
June 16, 2025
As she prepared to release her new record, “Hymnal,” the Berlin-based electronic artist joined us to talk techno-optimism, hero worship, and video games.
REISSUE
An Exclusive Excerpt From a New Book of David Wojnarowicz’s Final Essays
June 16, 2025
“I hate highways but love speeding and I can only think of men’s bodies and the drift and sway of my own,” writes the artist in “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline,” a new collection of his final essays, composed while dying of HIV/AIDS.
TRIBUTE
“He Was the Heartbeat”: Remembering NYC Nightlife Pioneer Billy Jones
June 15, 2025
“He was that rare kind of New Yorker who could make this big city feel like a small town,” says one of the many friends and collaborators of Billy Jones, who died last week at the age of 45.
ARCHIVE
Brian Wilson on Bedwetting, Draft-Dodging, and Finding Your Beach
June 13, 2025
In memory of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, we dove into the Interview archives to find out what he revealed to Elton John.
ALGORITHM
Meet Aaron Fisher, the Viral Protester Mistaken for a Movie Star
June 13, 2025
After his confrontation with the National Guard during the L.A. protests went viral, the political strategist was mistaken for someone else, and the confusion only amplified his message. We spoke to him about how it all went down.
BACKSTAGE
Can an Estonian Clown Solve All Your Problems? Julia Masli Is Willing to Try.
June 12, 2025
In her new one-woman show running through June at The Public Theater, Julia Masli prompts her audience with a simple question: “Problem?” What happens next is anyone’s guess.
OUTSIDE
“If Not Us, Literally Who?”: New Yorkers Want ICE Out of the City
June 11, 2025
At Foley Square on Tuesday evening, New Yorkers banded together to call for an end to the ICE raids and rampant deportations that sparked an uprising in Los Angeles, where President Trump deployed National Guard.
SCHOOLED
“I’m Basic, But in a Chic Way”: Kai Schreiber Takes Our Pop Quiz
June 11, 2025
The sixteen-year-old runway model turned TikTok star fills us in on her summer plans.
MOMMY ISSUES
Molly Jong-Fast and Jay McInerney on the Price of Literary Immortality
June 11, 2025
“All she cared about was posterity,” the writer says of her mother, Erica Jong, whose descent into addiction she narrates in her candid new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother.”
IN CONVERSATION
Alex Ross Perry Tells Jonas Åkerlund Why His New Pavement Doc Is Slanted and Enchanted
June 11, 2025
Before the release of Alex Ross Perry’s new documentary, “Pavements,” the filmmaker joined legendary music video director Jonas Åkerlund to talk about blending fact and fiction.
STANDOFF
On the Front Lines at the ICE Protests in Los Angeles
June 10, 2025
Photographer Jamie Lee Taete takes us to the front lines of Monday’s mass demonstration against a wave of ICE arrests in Los Angeles.
