STEVEN PHILLIPS-HORST

IN CONVERSATION

Lauren Oyler Wishes You’d Fact-Check Your Reviews

April 9, 2024

The critic and literary firebrand joined Steven Phillips-Horst to discuss her new book of essays, “No Judgment”—plus irony, elitism, and the beauty of English.

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Steven Phillips-Horst Reports from the Front Lines of Barbenheimer

July 28, 2023

“Barbie is a trans allegory in some ways,” writes Steven Phillips-Horst. “All gender, no sex.”

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Talk Hole: Supply Chain Me Daddy

November 16, 2021

“I’m pretty sure we are in a conservatorship with Interview.”

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Talk Hole: Pride & Prejudice

June 22, 2021

“I can’t be the only one seeing dollar signs here.”

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Talk Hole: Can’t Get You Out of My Hole

February 25, 2021

On Adam Curtis, Scandinavian furniture, and the end of ideas.

Talk Hole in Quarantine: Sex, Drones, and Social Distancing

March 12, 2020

“There’s actually something quite intrinsically capitalist about a quarantine. Get my Thai food and fuck everyone else.”

Talk Hole: TikTok Suburbia, Swiss Heaven, and the Radical Sincerity of Goop

January 30, 2020

Talk Hole is the bi-weekly spoken column of New York’s alt-comedy darlings Eric Schwartau and Steven Phillips-Horst, touching on all corners of the zeitgeist (high, low, top, bottom).

Talking “Laissez-Faire Capitalist BS” with Talk Hole’s Steven Phillips-Horst and Eric Schwartau

September 17, 2019

  Known collectively as Talk Hole, the queer “subversive underground art-jacent comedy brand,” New York alt-comedy darlings Eric Schwartau and Steven Phillips-Horst have the higher powers of cultural commentary to, say, go to the Nada Art Fair with Julio Torres and Jacqueline Novak and make it one big bit that doubles as performance art rivaling […]