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the industry
Feb. 22, 2024
‘Is He Going to Ruin My Day?’ How Matthew Belloni became the must-read columnist for Hollywood’s executive class.
indian cinema
June 1, 2022
How to Make It in Bollywood, One Evil Brit at a Time Fifteen years ago, Edward Sonnenblick came to India with a dream: To play British bad guys in Bollywood movies. It’s worked out better than expected.
By Nate Jones
Writing Through the Moment The Kings are known for making TV that captures the Zeitgeist. It’s a high-wire act that’s gotten trickier post-Trump.
By Angelica Jade Bastién
fall preview 2021
Aug. 30, 2021
Penn Badgley, the Visible Man He’s famous for his roles as a gossip and a stalker — and he’s a little disturbed by what fans see in him.
By Jackson McHenry
Anthony Veasna So Knew He Was a Star When the author died at 28, he was on the cusp of literary fame. Everyone remembers him differently.
By E. Alex Jung
Lucy Dacus Has Never Been This Honest One of rock’s best pens returns from a depressive hell with Home Video , the album she’s been writing for most of her life.
By Dan Hyman
How Bluey Became the Best Kids’ Show of Our Time No other series gets the strange, hilarious magic of play.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
Demi Lovato Was Legally Blind Following Her 2018 Overdose “I didn’t leave myself time to really feel sad about it. I just was like, how do I fix it?”
By Charu Sinha
Confessions of a 32-Year-Old Drama Queen No one is keeping up with Trisha Paytas, YouTube’s most frighteningly entertaining star.
By Rebecca Jennings
Youn Yuh-jung Comes to America The actress’s heart-shattering performance in Minari is likely to get an Oscar nod. She’s been doing this too long to care.
By E. Alex Jung
Sophie Can Show You the World “Being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective.”
By Sasha Geffen
Jazmine’s Tale After another long hiatus, the venerated R&B singer returns with her riskiest album yet.
By Hunter Harris
Torrey Peters Goes There The author’s debut novel, Detransition, Baby , wades into two of the most vulnerable questions for trans women.
By Lila Shapiro
extremely online
Nov. 23, 2020
It Started With a Laugh In 2019, Ashnikko broke out after a viral hit on TikTok. What if it wasn’t a fluke?
By Emma Madden
backstories
Nov. 14, 2020
The Climb Guys on the Real Friendship That Inspired a Toxic One The Climb ’s Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino made Cannes fall for a tiny American comedy. Eighteen months later, it’s finally coming out.
By Nate Jones
Ty Dolla $ign Can’t Stop Making Music “I kept recording, and I accidentally did another album.”
By Craig Jenkins
The Sci-Fi Author Reimagining Indigenous History As Rebecca Roanhorse’s novels have earned praise in the literary world, they’ve sparked controversy among some Native scholars.
By Lila Shapiro
Troye Sivan Comes Home The pandemic sent him back to Melbourne and a life alone. Now comes his best music yet.
By Douglas Greenwood
Flo Milli Summer The rising rapper from Mobile, Alabama, spins rhymes that sound like schoolyard taunts.
By Hunter Harris
Michaela the Destroyer How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the year’s most sublimely unsettling show.
By E. Alex Jung
Padma Lakshmi, Scars and All The Top Chef host gives a very personal food tour of New York City.
By E. Alex Jung
In Case of Emergency, Read Olivia Laing From The Lonely City to Funny Weather , the author writes to find a path forward through pain.
By Hillary Kelly
Kehlani Is Ready to Give You Something to Talk About The singer on her new album, the tired R&B debate, and the headlines that nearly destroyed her.
By Hunter Harris
the jokes must go on
Apr. 9, 2020
At Home (Where Else?) With Jimmy Fallon The late-night host makes a quarantine comeback, with an assist from his wife and kids.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
The Disaster Artist Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven is speaking to our pandemic-frenzied moment. Her new book is even bleaker.
By Hillary Kelly
sticky garlic
Jan. 21, 2020
By Rachel Handler
The Dark, Deadpan Fairy Tales of Jessica Hausner The Austrian arthouse director behind Little Joe is a master at observing the currents of unconscious social pressure.
By Nate Jones
Things Are Going Great for Jonathan Pryce. Maybe Too Great The papal buddy comedy The Two Popes is earning Jonathan Pryce serious Oscar buzz. Is the other shoe about to drop?
By Nate Jones
party report
Nov. 12, 2019
The ‘Hooker Laureate’ of the Dirtbag Left Rachel Rabbit White is making lit parties fun again.
By Kaitlin Phillips
Lilly Singh vs. the Late-Night Jimmys In a world of suits and cynicism, is there room for the YouTuber’s rainbow unicorn vibes?
By Anna Silman
Cyrus Dunham Lets Everyone Name Themselves Walking and talking fame, gender, and invasive vines in Los Angeles.
By Maggie Lange
Shopping for Books With The Goldfinch ’s Aneurin Barnard With three different projects premiering at TIFF, you’re going to be seeing a lot of the 32-year-old Welsh actor.
By Nate Jones
The Making (and Unmaking) of Tekashi 6ix9ine Inside the Slovak rap label that gave the polarizing rapper his career — then watched him kill it.
By Amos Barshad
New York’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer Runs a Podcast on Park Avenue Zibby Owens’s Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books “moves product” like nothing else.
By Hillary Kelly
my shyt is artisan
Aug. 13, 2019
Meet New York’s Sandwich Papi At the Bronx Night Market, Angel Medina cooks a no-frills tribute to his uptown upbringing.
By Bindu Bansinath
‘I’ve Always Had This Mentality of Hustle’ After years of feeling like an outsider, Nicole A. Taylor is ready to get shit done.
By Nikita Richardson
What Is Scarier Than Motherhood? In Helen Phillips’s The Need , a parent’s nightmares take the form of a home intruder — who looks exactly like her.
By Hillary Kelly
This ‘Mom & Mom Shop’ Wants to Make Meat Fun Again Former White Gold butchers Jocelyn Guest and Erika Nakamura on starting a family and launching their own business.
By Nikita Richardson
Whose Story Will Sandi Tan Tell Next? The Idiot seemed like an “unadaptable” book. But after Shirkers , is there anything the director can’t do?
By Anna Silman
Downtown’s Denim Queen Judi Rosen and her ass-flattering jeans have returned to Manhattan.
By Katy Schneider
Choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith Thinks Talent Is Nothing Without Guts The former dancer muses on togetherness and effort ahead of her production Lost Mountain.
By Whitney Mallett
Rachel Dratch Is Right Where She Wants to Be The former SNL star on professional setbacks, personal surprises, and making a movie with her best friends.
By Anna Silman
What Does Paul Liebrandt Want? He’s among New York’s most accomplished chefs — now, his definition of success is evolving.
By Neil Gladstone
The Dizzying, Glamorous Comedy of Catherine Cohen Meet the antidote to the last decade’s deadpan bro stand-up.
By Madeleine Aggeler
The Anti-Prestige Showrunner On set with Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman, who makes great TV by ignoring all the trends.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
Halle Butler Writes About Women Who’ve Soured on Ambition The novelist’s characters are wondering why the future they were promised never arrived.
By Sylvie McNamara
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