Van Jones on Think Tanks, Sex Scandals, and Third-Party Candidates
Photo courtesy of Van Jones. Let’s face it: you wouldn’t want to grab a drink with most of the talking heads on cable news programs these days. But Van Jones, the 55-year-old author, lawyer, and...
View Article“Every Sentence Matters”: Eugene Marten, in Conversation With Blake Butler
Photo courtesy of Eugene Marten. Some writers are little more than perpetual motion machines of self-aggrandizement, playing off-the-page games to bait your dime. Others stand on business, letting...
View ArticleSound Advice: Mel Ottenberg Wants You to Stop Trimming Your Bush
Mel Ottenberg, photographed by Jack Pierson. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered...
View ArticleManchester-Based DJ Salute Tells Us What It Takes to Survive Festival Season
Photo courtesy of salute. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from Malice K,...
View ArticleHarry Lawtey Tells Myha’la Why He Feels Naked Without His Industry Suit
Harry Lawtey, photographed by Lewis Vorn. When the soapy British series Industry first premiered on HBO in the fall of 2020, it was largely overshadowed by the network’s two crown jewels, Succession...
View ArticleAriana Madix Tells Kristin Chenoweth About Her Big Year, From Love Island to...
Ariana Madix, photographed by Dev Bowman. If anyone knows how demanding the eight-show-a-week Broadway grind can be, it’s Wicked veteran and Tony-award winner Kristin Chenoweth. So when she got on Zoom...
View Article“At Night Was When We Lived”: The Life and Death of Disco Doorman Haoui Montaug
Haoui Montaug. Palladium, NYC. October 1985. Photo by Patrick McMullan. Copyright Patrick McMullan. This is a story about the life and suicide of Haoui Montaug, one of the most important cultural...
View Article“You Cannot Delete a People”: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, by Whoopi Goldberg
Representative Jasmine Crockett wears Coat and Stole Adrienne Landau. Bracelet Kentshire. Bag Brandon Blackwood. “Bleach blonde, bad built, butch body.” Truer words have never been spoken. As a...
View Article“I’m Like a Picasso, Distorted and Expensive”: Ivana Vladislava Gets Freaky...
Photo courtesy of Ivana Vladislava. “I was trying so hard to be pretty that I ended up being completely disfigured—and I think it’s hilarious,” said Ivana Vladislava when she met up with fellow artist...
View ArticleTikTok Twins Sugar and Spice Take Us On a Hot-Girl Walk
Photo courtesy of Sugar & Spice. They say girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. But what about Sugar & Spice themselves? Well, they’re made of lace fronts and ten-inch heels....
View ArticleInside Artist Ryan Trecartin’s Aspen Art Week Ensemble
Ryan Trecartin, photographed by Ashland Mines. In the liner notes for the concert AUDIENCE PLANT 2024, artist and musician Ryan Trecartin asked his accompanying musicians to play in a spirit ranging...
View ArticleBen Shelton Is Back in New York. He’s Still Dialed In.
Ben Shelton, photographed by Chris Black. Last week, in the quiet, upstairs green room of a giant Brooklyn field house that the Swiss sportswear brand On had transformed into a swanky tennis arena for...
View ArticleWhat’s on Symone’s Feed? Housewives, Porn, and Politics.
Photo courtesy of Symone. In 2021, Symone entered the Drag Race workroom as an already fully-formed superstar, teeming with talent, taste, and too many quotables to mention here. But since winning the...
View ArticleIvy Wolk on Adderall, iPad Babies, and Bisexual Awareness
Ivy Wolk, photographed by Rufat Agayev. Most of the internet first encountered Ivy Wolk’s sharp and overactive imagination a few years ago on TikTok, where sharing a steady stream of unfettered hot...
View ArticleNadya Tolokonnikova Tells Vladimir Sorokin About Life Inside a Russian Prison
Vladimir Sorokin and Nadya Tolokonnikova, photographed by Ecem Lawton. When Nadya Tolokonnikova was 22, “the spirit of oprichnina” was already making its way through the capital of Russia. She formed...
View Article“The Movie Doesn’t Promote Eco-Terrorism”: A Seven-Minute Cig With Filmmaker...
Daniel Goldhaber, photographed by Lily Kwak. FRIDAY 6:30 PM AUGUST 23, 2024 TRIBECA When Harvard Law School hosted a screening of the political thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline earlier this year, Ted...
View ArticleChef Jon Kung Gives Us A Lesson In Third Culture Cooking
Jon Kung, photographed by Lily Kwak. “I’m seeing a lot of cookbooks that end in -ish. Latin-ish, African-ish,” says Detroit-based chef and internet daddy Jon Kung, who’s mastered a style of cooking...
View Article“We’re Like the Black Bruce Springsteen”: The Boys of Enumclaw Have Something...
Photo courtesy of Aramis Johnson. Enumclaw once described themselves as the best band since Oasis. But now that Oasis miraculously plans to reunite next summer, perhaps we might call Enumclaw the best...
View ArticleThe Paige Lorenze Guide to Being a Tennis WAG
“Behind every great man is a great woman,” the saying goes. In the case of Tommy Paul, the 27-year-old boy-next-door of American men’s tennis, that would be Paige Lorenze, who can often be found...
View Article“They’re All Here For Me”: Five Minutes Backstage with Shenseea
Photos courtesy of Shenseea. Another sold-out show at Webster Hall means another line around the block. It wasn’t long after I scurried to the very end that a woman selling a grocery cart full of...
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