Kylie Jenner
November 30, 2015
42 million Instagram followers can’t be wrong: King Kylie is among the most captivating personalities on the Internet. Raised on a reality show and groomed for celebrity, the improbably self-possessed little sister with the Mona Lisa smile looks poised for moguldom in her own right—but who is she, really, in real lyfe?
Terry Gilliam
November 4, 2015
The filmmaker Terry Gilliam has written a kind of illustrated memoir, Gilliamesque (Harper Design).
Umberto Eco
November 2, 2015
As an essayist, he forever changed the way we think about popular culture. As a novelist, Umberto Eco has written the secret history of the world.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
October 23, 2015
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all time leading scorer, a bestselling author, a lucid and vocal critic of Donald Trump, and about a million other things.
Gaspar Noé
October 19, 2015
Film’s great provocateur has grown from an irascible enfant terrible—making thumb-biting films about incest (I Stand Alone, 1998), rape and revenge (Irreversible, 2002), and the transcendence of drugs and death (Enter the Void, 2009)—into an incredibly mature, if still rude and puckish, filmmaker of the meditative and heartbreaking romance, Love, out this month.
@Kevin
September 1, 2015
Born in Massachusetts in 1983, Kevin Systrom grew into the kind of person we call a tinkerer, and what he describes as obsessive.
Liz Smith
August 11, 2015
Before the internet, before celebrity culture was the subject of 24-hour news channels, there was one voice—the greatest and most beloved voice—to turn to for reports on the lives of others. In the golden age of gossip, Liz Smith was the Grande Dame.
Through the Shredder
June 26, 2015
On Snarkitecture’s cavernous installation for COS clothiers at Salone di Mobile in Milan.
Benicio del Toro
June 25, 2015
What a weird and wonderful collection of characters actor Benicio del Toro is putting together.
Gillian Anderson
June 3, 2015
Gillian Anderson is getting back in her pant suit, speaking cynicism to truth, and rekindling the dynamic that launched a trillion ‘shippers.
Christopher Bollen
May 4, 2015
The writer and Interview editor at large sets suburbia on fire in his new novel.
Sam Shepard
April 27, 2015
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor still drives cross country to most of his film sets, still raps out with his former girlfriend and best friend Patti Smith, still writes some of the best American fiction, and still acts with all the power of his Days of Heaven and The Right Stuff youth—maybe more so, according to him.
Back to Chris Black
April 22, 2015
“When I figured out that I could sell knitting supplies to a luxury car company and advise a household battery brand on how it could raise its profile among tweens and teens, I became certain that a loudmouth with an opinion was a good thing to be,” writes Chris Black in the introduction to his new book, I Know You Think You Know It All (Powerhouse).
Kazuo Ishiguro
April 8, 2015
In his new novel, Buried Giant (Knopf), the Booker award-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro reckons with the morality of memory—for a nation, for a person—and the notion that love, or anything, can make a life worth living.
Power Plays
April 3, 2015
A little bit like House of Cards in the court of King Henry VIII (with said king played by Brody from Homeland, for good measure), Masterpiece’s new miniseries for PBS, Wolf Hall, has all of the political machinations, costume drama, and kaleidoscopic cast of our binge-watching fantasies.
Jenny Diski
March 18, 2015
Essayist and novelist Jenny Diski is in the midst of her most daunting project, publishing a “cancer diary,” as she calls it, while she undergoes treatment for lung cancer.
Bill Nighy
March 11, 2015
Bill Nighy has played some of the most delightful and delightfully weird characters in recent memory. And as he readies for the release of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (March 6th) and gears up for a Broadway production of Hare’s play Skylight this spring, Nighy and Chris Wallace chatted about his traveling supper club in India, his acting heroes, and his romance with football.
Jim Harrison
March 4, 2015
Jim Harrison’s new book, The Big Seven (Grove) continues to toy with many of his primary concerns as a writer—mortality, masculinity, and the search for a spiritual existence chief among them—following a retired police officer as he assesses himself and his relationship with the seven deadly sins.
Noam Chomsky
March 3, 2015
For more than half a century, the world’s greatest-living public intellectual has been speaking truth to power and calling out our most inconvenient truths.
Hiroki Nakamura
February 25, 2015
The designer’s cultishly beloved work may be inspired by his world travels, but he says they more accurately describe his journeys within.