Derek Cianfrance and Nicholas Hoult on Freud, Fatherhood, and the Frantic Art of Filmmaking

BITE

It’s Time to Let Padma Lakshmi Cook

by J Lee

DIRECTOR

Aziz Ansari’s Leap of Faith

by Steven Soderbergh

MEMOIR

Lukas Gage: When Fame Meets Shame

by Christopher Bollen

KNOCKOUT

Benny Safdie and John Oliver Grapple With The Smashing Machine

by John Oliver

ICONS

Photographer Jerry Schatzberg Takes Us Inside His Archives

by Kennedy Enlowsmith

KILLER

Charlie Hunnam and Ryan Murphy on Finding the Man Inside the Monster

by Ryan Murphy

Going Full Throttle at the Singapore Grand Prix

October 16, 2025

Interview’s executive editor Ben Barna heads across the world with Marriott Bonvoy for a Formula One fever dream.

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.”

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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.

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