Chris Wallace

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.