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Can a Trans Writer Be America’s Next Great Novelist? Torrey Peters Thinks So.
Torrey Peters, photographed by Hunter Abrams. “Perhaps Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel,” wrote Professor Grace Lavery in The Guardian of the debut novel by Torrey Peters. This...
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“Get Weirder and Fucking Weirder”: Erin Magee and Lourdes Leon on Boys Clubs...
Erin Magee, photographed by Junell Tanio. Being a woman means perpetually deciding whether to follow or flout the rules you’re given, but for some, the easy answer is to unflinchingly give zero fucks....
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“Demonic, Ethereal, Fun”: Seven Minutes Backstage With Sasami
Sasami, photographed by Juliette Jeffers. FRIDAY 5:22 PM MARCH 7, 2025 MIDTOWN SASAMI, like all us, is entering a new golden age of pop. The classically-trained musician turned indie darling is kicking...
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Claire Tabouret Designed the New Stained-Glass Windows at Notre-Dame. She’s...
Claire Tabouret, photographed by Tag Christof. Halfway through my conversation with the French artist Claire Tabouret, we arrived at everyone’s favorite subject: psychoanalysis. Twice a week for seven...
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“If You Look for Change, You Find Change”: Fassbinder Muse Hanna Schygulla...
Hanna Schygulla, photographed by Anna Frandsen. It’s hard to think of Rainer Werner Fassbinder without the actress Hanna Schygulla, the longtime muse he met at a Munich school in the mid-60s and went...
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“The Algo Is Haunting”: Sophia Ziskin on It Girls and Incriminating Texts
As far as It Girls go, Sophia Ziskin is the blueprint. She was 17 when she started modeling and DJing—though her exact age is “timeless,” as she told me— in the L.A. scene where she was born and...
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“I’d Trade All the Compliments For a Budget”: 30 Minutes at IFC With Todd...
Todd Solondz, photographed by Luisa Opalesky. Since his 1989 debut feature, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, Todd Solondz’s films—at once tender, defiant, repellent, and hysterically funny—have served...
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Denise Richards on Oils, OnlyFans, and the Secret to a Happy Marriage
Denise Richards, photographed by Emily Sandstrom. TUESDAY 8:12 PM MARCH 4, 2025 DOWNTOWN Welcome to OFF MENU, a column where we gossip and gorge with our favorite tastemakers. For this installment, we...
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“It’s the Ghetto MedBot”: Flying Lotus Takes Us Inside His Body Horror Space...
Photo courtesy of Flying Lotus. To say that Ash, the latest directorial effort from the man born Steven D. Bingley-Ellison but better known as Flying Lotus, is his most coherent film to date isn’t...
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How Conversion Therapy Inspired the Artist Leonard Baby’s New Series of...
Leonard Baby, photographed by Emma Beiles Howie. All clothes by LOEWE. “I would play with dolls with my sisters, and it felt like I was doing hard drugs,” recounts the artist Leonard Baby, whose new...
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“I’m Drawn to Ridiculous Extremes”: Mimi Cave on Housewives, Holland, and the...
Photo courtesy of Mimi Cave. Few directors have been able to dissect the secrets that lurk beneath well-meaning visages as deliciously as Mimi Cave. Cave’s filmography consists of eerie music videos...
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“Carcass Out!”: RHOBH’s Dorit Kemsley on a Messy Season of Breakups and...
Dorit Kemsley, photographed by Jake Nevins. TUESDAY 8:12 PM MARCH 11, 2025 CHELSEA Dorit Kemsley has been accused by her castmates on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills of being “long-winded,” but...
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“Ideas Are Nice, But Music is Stronger”: Oklou, in Conversation With A.G. Cook
Photo courtesy of Oklou. When it comes to her sonic world, Oklou, the musician born Marylou Mayniel, is a purist. There’s a real romanticism at the heart of her music: “It feels like the ultimate goal...
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Mark Anthony Green Tells Cord Jefferson Why Making Movies Is His Favorite Drug
Mark Anthony Green, photographed by Cord Jefferson. “If they don’t let you do it, die trying to do it. And if they let you do it, die doing it as many times as you can.” That’s the mantra of Mark...
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Author Josh Duboff and Alison Roman on the Aimless Drift of Your Early Thirties
Photo courtesy of Josh Duboff. Who better to pen a bildungsroman that delves into the world of young adult heartbreak and glossy downtown media jobs than someone who just crawled out of both himself?...
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How Camila Mendes and Rachel Matthews Turned an NYU Meet-Cute Into a...
Rachel Matthews and Camila Mendes, photographed by Justin Cook. For next-gen Hollywood, the starlet has become a multi-hyphenate. After the success of production companies like Reese Witherspoon’s...
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Director Alex Scharfman on Unicorn Mythology and Corporate Greed
Photo courtesy of Alex Scharfman. Whatever preconceived notions about unicorns you may have, nothing will prepare you for director Alex Scharfman’s addition to their long-standing lore with A24’s Death...
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“It’s All Just Meaningless”: Inside the Based Mind of Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine, courtesy of EDGLRD. Everyone lined up outside Knockdown Center to see Baby Invasion either works extra hard to bring downtown chic to New York City’s semi-suburban Maspeth or calls to...
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“I’m Running Away Screaming”: Five Magical Minutes With David Blaine
WEDNESDAY 7:52 PM MARCH 19, 2025 NYC Is David Blaine a performance artist? A masterful manipulator? A stuntman? Most agree it takes a bit of all three to become the Harry Houdini of the 21st century,...
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“It’s the Wild West”: Amanda Knox on True Crime, Prison Food, and Summer Flings
In her second memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning, Amanda Knox situates herself in a long lineage of women that have been maligned and extorted over the years for public entertainment: “You know who...
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