COVER
SZA Gives Chappell Roan the Divine Answer
June 17, 2025
For our summer cover story, the pop sorceress called her mutual admirer for a long-overdue conversation about exes, energy vampires, and the method—and madness—behind the magic.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
SOUND ADVICE
Rico Nasty Dances in the Mirror to This Playlist
June 10, 2025
“Don’t take advice from people who don’t make art,” says the rage-rap pioneer, who stars in our just-released Summer 2025 Issue (and made us a playlist to celebrate).
RADIO CITY
“Live Theater Is Back”: On the Ground at the 2025 Tony Awards
June 9, 2025
At the 78th Annual Tony Awards, we tracked down Tituss Burgess, Megan Hilty, Anthony Ramos, and Bob Odenkirk to talk about a superlative season on Broadway.
FESTIVAL
“It’s Like the Lesbian Thunderdome”: 10 Minutes at Gov Ball With Young Miko
June 9, 2025
Before starting her rain-soaked set at Governor’s Ball, the Puerto Rican rapper met up with us backstage to tell us how it feels to be every girl’s gay awakening.
GAY
Frankie Grande Tells His Sister Ariana How He Found His Shine Again
June 9, 2025
For our Summer 2025 issue, the siblings got on the phone to talk Pride, recovery, and Frankie’s new record, “Hotel Rock Bottom.”
PRIDE
“Keep it Cute” Vivian Jenna Wilson Rides for Interview x Boy Smells Pride
June 6, 2025
Last night, the girls and gays hit The Eagle L.A. for a night of debauchery hosted by our new favorite It girl.
STUNT
We’re Flipping Out Over Benson Boone
June 6, 2025
Before his headlining set at Governor’s Ball, the backflipping pop star got on a call with our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg to tell us what it takes to be a stunt king.
EXPATS
Leif Randt and Vincenzo Latronico Compare Notes on the Millennial Berlin Experience
June 6, 2025
Last month, the award-winning authors got together to talk about their respective novels—”Allegro Pastel” and “Perfection”—and the Americanization of Berlin.