MEMOIR
Lukas Gage: When Fame Meets Shame
October 15, 2025
“if you looked at my life on paper,” says the 30-year-old actor, “it’s pretty insane that this fuck-up from San Diego is getting married on The Kardashians.”
QUESTIONNAIRE
Stylist Ch’lita Collins On Swag, Stilettos, and Sartorial Sins
October 15, 2025
Who has the worst taste on the internet? “Me and my friends,” says the London-based stylist, memelord, and woman-about-town.
SOUND ADVICE
Maggie Lindemann Tells Us Which Songs Make Her Cry, Cope, and Crash Out
October 15, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter made us a playlist of songs that inspired her new album, “i feel everything,” out this Friday.
COOKED
Is The Commodore the Best Restaurant in the Known Universe?
October 14, 2025
According to our food editor J Lee’s somewhat shaky logic, it just might be.
FACE CARD
Tokyo Stylez on Beauty Hacks, Bonnet Problems, and BBL Recovery
October 14, 2025
In this month’s installment of Face Card, the Miami-based hairstylist and wigmaker to the stars takes us behind the scenes of her glam routine—and Cardi B’s.
DIRECTOR
“Cinema Is Connected to Dreams”: Lucile Hadžihalilović, in Conversation with Gaspar Noé
October 13, 2025
After a forty-year partnership, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Gaspar Noé sit down for the first time to talk about the films that shaped her—and the dreamlike obsession that’s defined their life in cinema.
NYFF
Director Jafar Panahi on Making Movies in the Age of Authoritarianism
October 10, 2025
“I have to make films, and I consider this my natural right,” says the 65-year-old Iranian director, whose latest release, “It Was Just an Accident,” took home the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival this summer.
SMOKE BREAK
How Photographer Christopher Sherman Turns His Subjects Into Superstars
October 10, 2025
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we headed north to Toronto to join the photographer at the opening of his debut solo exhibition, “Your Shame Bores Me.”
COMEBACK
After a Six-Year Hiatus, Jay Som Is Ready to Run Indie-Rock Again
October 10, 2025
After an extended layoff and a tour with Boygenius, the singer-songwriter joined us to talk about recruiting Hayley Williams and Jim Adkins for “Belong,” her first album in six years.
NYFF
Filmmaker Bi Gan Joins Jeremy O. Harris in the Criterion Closet
October 9, 2025
In town for the New York Film Festival premiere of his new feature, “Resurrection,” the director joined Jeremy O. Harris to talk astrology, algorithms, and the dreamlike logic that fuels his cinema.
IN CONVERSATION
Inside Herculine, the Demonic Trans Horror Novel You’ve Been Waiting For
October 9, 2025
To mark the publication of her debut novel, the author Grace Byron joined Substack princess Rayne Fisher-Quann to talk faith, jealousy, suffering, and demons.
CRUISING
Photographer Arthur Tress Takes Jordan Tannahill For a Walk Around the Ramble
October 9, 2025
In the 1960s, the Brooklyn-born photographer began documenting his visits to New York’s most famous cruising ground. A half-century later, his vibrant, watchful images are finally getting their due.
NYFF
Filmmaker Radu Jude Takes Us Inside His Algorithm
October 8, 2025
After the NYFF premieres of his two new films, “Kontinental ’25” and “Dracula,” the Romanian filmmaker joined us to talk A.I. slop, the descent of the West, and the peasants and pornstars that populate his algorithm.
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
What Does It Take to Open a New York Restaurant? Let Flynn McGarry Explain.
October 8, 2025
As he prepared to open his brand-new restaurant, Cove, the culinary boy wonder documented a busy and beautiful month of repairs, installations, press previews, and menu tweaks.
DIARY
“It’s a Humiliation Ritual”: Taylore’s PFW Diary, Day Seven
October 7, 2025
“The theme is labor, motherhood,” our senior editor writes of Miu Miu SS26. “This all fits neatly with my new fashion week thesis: it’s exhausting to be a woman.”
SGA
MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Drops an Icy Canada Goose Collaboration
October 7, 2025
The reigning NBA MVP got in touch with his Toronto roots for his latest collaboration with Canada Goose.
PARIS FASHION WEEK
Uma Thurman Reviews Michael Rider’s “Breathlessly Beautiful” Celine Show
October 7, 2025
Which looks was Uma Thurman thirsting over at Celine SS26? “I wouldn’t tell you what I would steal from the show,” said the “Kill Bill” icon, “because then everyone else would steal it too.”
PARIS FASHION WEEK
Real Women, But Make it Chanel: Mel Ottenberg on Matthieu Blazy’s Epic Debut
October 7, 2025
For his Chanel debut on Monday night, Matthieu Blazy transformed the Grand Palais into a solar system. After the show, we looked to the stars for their instant reactions.
SOUND ADVICE
“Blonde, Asymmetrical, Bob”: Macy Rodman Made a Playlist For Confused Femme Fatales
October 7, 2025
When the New York nightlife icon made us a playlist for this week’s Sound Advice, we asked her which songs she wishes she’d written. “All of them,” she quipped. “Imagine the royalties.”
IN CONVERSATION
Natasha Stagg and Tish Weinstock on Goths, Girlhood, and Grand Rapids
October 7, 2025
To mark the launch of her new novel, “Grand Rapids,” author Natasha Stagg fielded some deep questions from her internet friend and fellow writer Tish Weinstock.
