Culture

OUTSIDE

“We Should All Be Worried”: New Yorkers Flood the Streets for Mahmoud Khalil

March 12, 2025

On Monday afternoon, we joined thousands of New Yorkers at Manhattan Federal Plaza, where The People’s Forum hosted a demonstration against the sudden detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.

IN CONVERSATION

“Everybody Can Be Romeo and Juliet”: Anne Imhof on Love, Danger, and DOOM

March 11, 2025

The performance artist joined New York legend Justin Vivian Bond to discuss “DOOM: House of Hope,” her epic new three-hour show at the Park Avenue Armory.

PFW

“Rebellious, Twisted, and Fun”: Mel Ottenberg Reviews Valentino FW25

March 10, 2025

“This takes some real balls,” raved our editor-in-chief of Alessandro Michele’s latest collection for Valentino, staged in a makeshift public restroom awash in Lynchian red.

PFW

“Clothes For Women!”: A Dispatch From the Front Row at Sarah Burton’s Givenchy Debut

March 7, 2025

After taking in Sarah Burton’s debut collection for Givenchy, Law Roach, Gwendoline Christie, and Yseult joined us to talk clothing for women, by women.

ICON

“I’ve Never Felt Younger”: Michelangelo Pistoletto, in Conversation With Maurizio Cattelan

March 7, 2025

To mark a career-spanning retrospective at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, the 91-year-old artist joined fellow Italian Maurizio Cattelan to find out if art still has the capacity to shock.

RORSCHACH TEST

“You Might As Well Just Freeball”: Dylan Efron on Liars, Leg Day, and Jockstraps

March 7, 2025

After outlasting a castle of mischief-makers and main characters on season three of “The Traitors,” the reality TV heartthrob joined us for this week’s Rorschach Test.

ICON

“I’m Not Romantic About the Past”: Michel Auder on 60 Years of Documenting New York’s Underground

March 6, 2025

As his 1970 remake of “Cleopatra” returns to NYC screens, the filmmaker joined us to to talk about quitting heroin, embracing video, and getting stoned with Jane Fonda.

NOVELISTS

“Always Hold the Reader’s Hand”: Adam Ross, in Conversation With Taffy Brodesser-Akner

March 6, 2025

The author of the sprawling New York novel “Playworld” joined Taffy Brodesser-Akner for a wide-ranging conversation about memory, trauma, irony, and reading reviews.

RORSCHACH TEST

“That’s a Big Fat No”: Kristin Cavallari on Cabo, Co-Parenting, and Combat Boots on the Beach

March 5, 2025

Before setting off on her podcast tour, the OG reality TV star joined us for the Rorschach Test, sounding off on Speidi, cheaters, and the infamous ending of “The Hills.”

KILLS

Director Osgood Perkins Tells Us Why Horror Movies Are the Best Medicine

March 5, 2025

The director of “The Monkey”— and son of Hollywood royalty Anthony Perkins— joined us to talk about cheap thrills, morbid kills, and the afterlife.

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STYLE

“How Do You Like That?”: Positively Cathy Reviews Some Recent Runway Looks

March 4, 2025

The Midwestern faith, food, and fashion influencer graces the pages of our March 2025 issue.

ONLINE

Jeremy Gordon on Media Jobs, Male Loneliness, and Modern Malaise

March 4, 2025

“That failed middle class of the millennial generation was certainly on my mind,” said the author when he joined us to discuss his debut novel, “See Friendship.”

REALITY

How Baylen Dupree Turned Tourette’s TikTok Into Television Stardom

March 3, 2025

“If you’re going to talk about me and who I am, I want it to come out of my mouth and my mouth only,” says the star of TLC’s “Baylen Out Loud.”

SUPERHERO

Captain America’s Danny Ramirez Gives Lewis Pullman His Best G-Force Face

February 28, 2025

The 32-year-old actor and “Captain America” star called his friend and former co-star from the backseat of a Cadillac to talk wedgies, g-force, and superheroes.

CLICK

Photographer Martin Parr On Trump, Tourism, and the Trials Of Modern Living

February 28, 2025

“I feel pretty upbeat, but when I think about the planet and the world and our country, I can’t help but get depressed,” says the renowned photojournalist, who’s now the subject of a new documentary.

MFW

“I’ll Make a Stunning Cake in That”: Nara Smith Reviews Prada FW25 From Scratch

February 27, 2025

On Thursday afternoon in Milan, our editor-in-chief tracked down the baked goods goddess after the Prada show to find out which looks she’d wear in the kitchen.

SOUL HACKER

Celebrity Psychic Wendy L’Belle-Tividad Taps Into the Frequency of Love

February 27, 2025

The Kundalini-awakened intuit tells her client, the painter Ariana Papademetropoulos, how she keeps her heart chakra wide open.

BACKSTAGE

How Alastair Curtis Is Rescuing the Works of the Playwrights Lost to AIDS

February 27, 2025

“We shouldn’t look to Ryan Murphy to direct us to the next bit of forgotten queer history,” says the founder of The AIDS Plays Project. “We should have a compunction to go back and search for context.”

SMOKE BREAK

“I’m the Melancholy Party Photographer”: Talking Love and Natural Light With Marcus Maddox

February 27, 2025

“It starts out with young, sexy people in love, very blissful,” the photographer says of “Hey Lover,” his brand-new monograph. “But then it progresses into this sequence of unhappiness.”

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XXX

“The Only Way Out Is to Get Fucked”: Behind the Scenes of the Brand-New Brazzers Book

February 26, 2025

After spending a year trailing the biggest stars in the porn industry, photographer Rosie Marks and writer Esra Padgett told us what they learned aboard the Bang Bus.