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SOUND ADVICE

Pump Iron With This Playlist, Courtesy of Organ Tapes

February 11, 2026

In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the singer-songwriter born Timothy Zha made us a playlist for the weight room before answering a series of invasive questions.

TRANSFORMATION

Jay Manuel on the Rise and Fall of America’s Next Top Model

February 11, 2026

Ahead of the premiere of “Reality Check,” a new Netflix series documenting the rise and fall of “America’s Next Top Model,” the TV host tells-all.

ROMANCE

Emerald Fennell and Baz Luhrmann Are Horny For Making Movies

February 10, 2026

The “Wuthering Heights” director tells her fellow worldbuilder she exalts—and arouses—audiences.

RAGE

You Are Cordially Invited to Feng’s House Party

February 10, 2026

As his debut album draws near, the British rapper has been throwing spontaneous house parties around New York and L.A. We stopped by for a closer look.

IN CONVERSATION

Emma D’Arcy Tells Bella Ramsey Why Movie Stars Should Pack Their Own Lunch

February 10, 2026

As the 33-year-old actor prepared for an Off-Broadway stint at The Shed, the one-time Targaryen joined Bella Ramsey to talk about fighting fascism with art.

GEN X

Peaches Wants You to Enjoy the Revolution

February 9, 2026

As the singer tells Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, life doesn’t end at 50, as long as you stay hairy, hung, and full of pride.

DIRECTOR

How Sirât Director Oliver Laxe Found God at a Rave

February 9, 2026

Just after receiving his first Oscar nomination for Best International Feature, the “Sirât” director joined us to talk faith, spirituality, and the healing potential of cinema.

IN CONVERSATION

Zoë Bleu Tells Her Aunt Patricia Arquette How She Made Dracula Romantic Again

February 6, 2026

The 31-year-old rising star talked to her aunt and collaborator Patricia Arquette about landing her first leading role in director Luc Besson’s “Dracula” remake.

ON SECOND THOUGHT

“What a Depressing Bitch I Am”: Whoopi Goldberg Rethinks Her 1992 Cover Story

February 5, 2026

In 1992, at the peak of her box-office power, the Oscar winner appeared on our cover. More than three decades later, she revisits that story with the same unapologetic honesty that continues to define her.

COMPOSERS

“Turn Up the Sad”: Max Richter Takes Finneas Inside His Hamnet Score

February 5, 2026

The morning he received his first Academy Award nomination, the “Hamnet” composer called Finneas O’Connell to compare notes on Shakespeare and the awards circuit.

ICON

Whoopi Goldberg Has Unfinished Business

February 4, 2026

The EGOT winner, author, activist, entrepreneur, and talk show host has defined culture on her own terms. At 70, she tells Jeremy O. Harris she’s not quite done yet.

ARCHIVES

Marilyn, Björk, and Liza, Through the Lens of Douglas Kirkland

February 4, 2026

“Seductive, intriguing, and slightly dangerous” is how Françoise Kirkland, wife of the late photographer, describes a new book featuring his images of Hollywood icons from Marilyn Monroe to Grace Jones.

August Ponthier

SOUND ADVICE

August Ponthier Made Us a Playlist to Get Into the Southern Sapphic Spirit

February 4, 2026

In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Texas-born, New York-based singer made us a playlist and revealed their most lesbian trait.

SMOKE BREAK

Industry’s Myha’la on Freud, Fan Service, and Finance Bros

February 3, 2026

“People like to call Harper a psychopath,” the actor said of her character on the hit HBO series. “But she just isn’t. She just simply is not.”

ART

Drake Carr Draws a Very Versace Campaign

February 3, 2026

For Chapter 2 of Versace Embodied, the brand commissioned a large-scale work by the New York artist.

ARCHIVES

“He Cheated On Me”: Our 1997 Interview With Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

February 2, 2026

In 1997, fresh out of college and on the cusp of global fame, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon opened up to Interview about girls, gossip, and “Good Will Hunting.”

BEAUTY

Rebecca Hall and Evan Peters Are Trying To Get Through This Interview

February 2, 2026

The British actor stars in “The Beauty,” Ryan Murphy’s new FX body horror series. When she sat down with her co-star to talk about it, things didn’t go as planned.

SEEK HELP

Treat Yourself Like Paris Hilton

January 29, 2026

This Valentines, the “Infinite Icon” star is serving up some tips on how to take care of number one.

HYPE

Aidan Zamiri Is the Moment

January 29, 2026

The director tells Mel Ottenberg how he got into bed with the brattiest pop star of all.

POP GIRL

Madison Beer Doesn’t Want to Remember 2016

January 29, 2026

After dropping her her third studio album, “Locket,” the 26-year-old pop girlie called us up mid-promo tour to talk leaks, Los Angeles, and living in the moment.