COME-UP
“If That Shit Melt, Lord Have Mercy”: John Glacier, in Conversation With Lucien Clarke
October 17, 2024
After playing her first ever hometown headline show, the rapper talked to her skater friend Lucien Clarke about persistence, poisonous flowers, and paying back her parents.
POWER-LEZ
How K8 Hardy Got Jenna Lyons to Wear a Dress
October 17, 2024
To mark the release of their latest collaboration, “Studio Dress,” K8 Hardy called up her friend Jenna Lyons to talk fabric TikToks, power lesbians, and showing their underpants.
butts
Photographer Chivas Clem Takes Jack Pierson Inside His Archive of Drifters
October 17, 2024
“Most of them are felons and don’t vote and have no relationship to politics,” the photographer said of the men featured in his new show at Dallas Contemporary, “Shirttail Kin.”
IN CONVERSATION
Lucy Ives and Chris Kraus on Unicorns, Fantasy, and Flaubert
October 16, 2024
To mark the release of her new essay collection, the novelist told her friend and fellow writer Chris Kraus how her identity was forged in the public libraries of New York City.
LIT
In the Novels of Susan Minot, Women Get to Be Delusional Too
October 16, 2024
To mark the release of her latest novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” author Susan Minot talked to us about obsession, maternity, and the importance of doing stupid things.
SOUND ADVICE
“Girls and Cars!”: Electroclash Duo Somewhere Special Make Us a Playlist
October 15, 2024
To mark the release of their new single, “Secret,” the New York-based electroclash duo Somewhere Special joined us for this week’s edition of Sound Advice.
NYFF
Paul Schrader on Faith, Facebook, and Bisexual Awareness
October 14, 2024
Over coffee in Manhattan, the “Oh, Canada” director talked to us about sexuality, Calvinism, big-budget cinema, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” and his search for a new personal assistant.
RORSCHACH TEST
Claudia Conway on Hunter Biden, Alternative Facts, and Project 2025
October 14, 2024
In anticipation of November 5th, we asked the daughter of George and Kellyanne to sound off on Fox News, Ella Emhoff, iPad babies, and the Electoral College.
GAY
How Marwan Kaabour Wrote the Definitive Guide to Queer Arab Slang
October 11, 2024
The London-based graphic designer and linguist paid us a visit on his North American book tour to talk about “The Queer Arab Glossary.”
NYFF
“I Like to Be Alone on Stage”: 15 Minutes With Isabelle Huppert
October 11, 2024
We met the French actor for a morning coffee at L’Alliance New York to talk ambiguity, intuition, and her latest film, director Hong Sang-soo’s “A Traveler’s Needs.”
OFF MENU
The Paige DeSorbo Guide to Being an Italian-American Princess
October 11, 2024
In this month’s installment of Off Menu, we took “Summer House” star Paige DeSorbo to New York’s hottest new Italian spot for a lesson in spaghetti and meatballs.
REMAKE
Nathalie Emmanuel Tells Omar Sy About Life On Set With Francis Ford Coppola
October 10, 2024
The “Game of Thrones” star tells her friend and former co-star how she kept Francis Ford Coppola’s secrets on the great, big set of his comeback film, “Megalopolis.”
LIT
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake, Political Fiction, and Staying Off Twitter
October 10, 2024
The award-winning novelist joined us to talk about her latest book, “Creation Lake,” and the writers who inspire her, from Don DeLillo to Cormac McCarthy.
SOUNDCHECK
“The Internet Is Basically One Giant Cop”: Backstage at MSG With Jack Antonoff
October 9, 2024
We joined the Bleachers frontman backstage to find out what he’s learned playing alongside Taylor Swift and why he isn’t listening to “bots and shitheads” on the internet.
NYFF
“It’s Fucking Bullocks, Basically”: 45 Minutes With Hard Truths Director Mike Leigh
October 9, 2024
The Palme d’Or-winning “Hard Truths” director met up with Jeremy O. Harris to talk about the troubled state of cinema and why Los Angeles is a “tedious place to be.”
SMOKE BREAK
“It’s My Dark, Twisted Fantasy”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Filmmaker Olmo Schnabel
October 9, 2024
At the Roxy Cinema premiere of his film “Pet Shop Days,” the director shared his thoughts on Oedipal relations, growing up downtown, and working with Willem Dafoe.
NYFF
Filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko Gets Freaky in the Criterion “Bangbus”
October 8, 2024
The director talks depravity and John Waters ahead of the New York premiere of his latest film, “The Code.”
ICON
“How Do You Feel About Getting Old?”: Robert Longo, in Conversation With Richard Price
October 8, 2024
Before the opening of Longo’s comeback show, “Searchers,” the artist talked to his friend Richard Price about burnout, filmmaking blunders, and the pleasures and pitfalls of getting older.
NYFF
“You Can’t Put Me in Any Box”: 30 Minutes With Filmmaker Mati Diop
October 8, 2024
“I always felt much more heard and understood than in France,” the director told Jeremy O. Harris of New York City after the NYFF premiere of her sophomore feature, “Dahomey.”
STUDIO VISIT
Sculptor Brian Oakes on Fedora Guys and Sorting Machines
October 7, 2024
At Blade Study, where his show “SEED” is on view this month, the artist talked to us about dioramas, “fedora guys,” and why pressing buttons is compulsive.
