Matthew Leifheit

SCREENWRITER

What Drove Justin Kuritzkes to Write the Year’s Horniest Movie?

April 23, 2024

The playwright and first-time screenwriter tells the filmmaker Halina Reijn how an afternoon watching tennis became “Challengers,” and changed the trajectory of his career.

RECORD

Sampha on Headstands, Homesickness, and Spiritual Intervention

December 18, 2023

“Life is just one big spirit thing, whatever that is.”

STUDIO VISIT

Meet Rachel Stern, the Photographer Reinterpreting Oscar Wilde’s Salome

July 31, 2023

“My heartbreak led me back to Salome.”

Art

Nile Harris and Crackhead Barney on Art and Exploitation

June 28, 2023

“We can out Interview on their own platform.”

BOY NEXT DOOR

Pop Music’s Boy Wonder Charlie Puth is Horny and Hungies

June 13, 2023

“It’s the people that make the music sexy. You know what I mean?”

HELLRAISER

Gary Indiana and Chris Kraus on Autofiction and Art World Fuckery

April 12, 2023

The literary legend talks to fellow writer and Semiotext(e) publisher about what you can and can’t say out loud in the current climate, and those gone but not forgotten.