SOUND ADVICE
Listen to This Playlist by Artist Lizzi Bougatsos, Inspired by Valentino and Vinyls
May 23, 2025
“With this set, I was musing on a woman’s mind through the instrumentation of frantic guitar, pleading, and loss,” says the experimental musician and underground legend.
RETROSPECTIVE
Grimes, Ridley Scott, and Others Tell Us How Designer Syd Mead Invented the Future
May 23, 2025
To celebrate the opening of “Future Pastime,” a new retrospective on the work of the “Blade Runner” designer, we asked his collaborators and admirers to reflect on his legacy.
CHEERS
“Ma’am, Please Put the Joint Out”: Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz Join Us for a Champagne Shower
May 23, 2025
At the Tate Modern for the launch of Dom Perignon’s latest campaign, we asked Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz to complete the Warhol questionnaire.
COOKED
Why I’m Breaking Up With Hillstone
May 22, 2025
In the first installment of Cooked, Interview’s new food editor J Lee returns to Hillstone, the much-mythologized chain of restaurants he once loved.
BESTIES
“There’s an Unspoken Mind Meld”: When King Princess Met Christine Baranski
May 22, 2025
On the set of “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the 26-year-old musician found a friend and mentor in Christine Baranski. Here, the besties link up to talk shamans, showtunes, and “lesbian bed death.”
RORSCHACH TEST
“If You’re Poor, Stay Away”: Phaedra Parks on Peaches, Prenups, and Pope Francis
May 22, 2025
Before making her grand return to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” the perennial fan-favorite took the hot seat for this week’s installment of the Rorschach Test.
IN CONVERSATION
Lily McInerny and Kaia Gerber on Heartbreak, Hedonism, and Healing on Camera
May 21, 2025
“There was a version of myself before shooting this film and a version of myself after,” says the 26-year-old “Bonjour Tristesse” star. “And I like the version of myself after a lot more.”
CLICK
In Chessa Subbiondo’s Photographs, Hot Girls Are Always Crying
May 21, 2025
The photographer joined us to explain how she cultivated her icy, deadpan vision in her first photography book, “SPLINT.”
BADDIE
Rachel Chinouriri Wants You to Stop Drinking the Dumb Bitch Juice
May 21, 2025
Ahead of her US tour, the British pop star joined us to talk about cutting off toxic exes, finding little luxuries on the road, and opening for Sabrina Carpenter.
HISTORY
Thanks to Tourmaline, the Long-Awaited Biography of Marsha P. Johnson Is Here.
May 20, 2025
“I feel really blessed to have come up in a political community where we were receiving the gift of Marsha’s freedom movement,” the author told writer Journey Streams.
BACKSTAGE
For Colman Domingo, Telling the Story of Nat “King” Cole Was Personal
May 19, 2025
“You’re basically dynamite and I’m sugar this whole time,” Domingo told NYTW artistic director Patricia McGregor, with whom he’s co-written a play about Nat “King” Cole.
LOL
“Let’s Monetize This Friendship”: Will Forte, in Conversation With Seth Meyers
May 16, 2025
“I will follow her to the ends of the earth,” Forte said of his “The Four Seasons” co-star Tina Fey. “She’s as good as it gets.”
OPENING
Can a Portland Gallery Make It In New York? The Girls Behind ILY2 Think So.
May 15, 2025
“Of course it’s a risk,” says Jeanine Jablonski of launching her and Allie Furlotti’s gallery, ILY2, in New York. “But I keep saying that if there was a time to take a risk, it’s now.”
LOS ANGELES
John Tottenham on His Debut Novel Service, an Ode to Bookstores and Bohemians
May 15, 2025
To mark the release of his sardonic debut novel, “Service,” the LA-based poet joined us to talk gentrification, yellow drugs, and name-dropping.
BACKSTAGE
Meet Tom Francis, the Bloodstained Beefcake of Broadway’s Sunset Boulevard
May 14, 2025
The morning after receiving his very first Tony nomination, the 25-year-old “Sunset Boulevard” star called Jeremy O. Harris to talk sweaty T-shirts and getting swole.
SHRINK
Falling in Love With Your Therapist? Adelaide Faith Wrote a Novel For You.
May 14, 2025
“To me, writing has always seemed similar to therapy,” said the author of “Happiness Forever,” out this week. “I told my therapist about my transference in the same way that Sylvie does in the novel.”
IN CONVERSATION
Rosie Stockton and Rachel Kushner on Pump Jacks, Death Drives, and the Uses of Metaphor
May 13, 2025
“It’s a book of climate catastrophe,” the poet says of “Fuel,” her latest collection now out with Nightboat Books. “It strives to reckon with despair on multiple scales.”
EXCLUSIVE
Joe Exotic Called Us From Federal Prison. He’s Not Enjoying the Food.
May 13, 2025
“I haven’t heard a word,” said the “Tiger King” star of his attempts to reach President Donald Trump for a pardon. “He’s too busy making AI pictures of himself as the Pope.”
XXX
Cowboys and Cumshots: Behind the Scenes of the 7th Annual Pornhub Awards
May 13, 2025
Photographer Andrew Espinal gives us an exclusive look into the raunchy rodeo that was the 7th Pornhub Awards, hosted by Jordan Firstman.
NEWCOMER
Wally Baram of Overcompensating Tells Kyle MacLachlan How She Gets Into Flow State
May 12, 2025
The stand-up comic and breakout star of Prime’s “Overcompensating” joined her co-star Kyle MacLachlan to talk about the thrills—and nerves—of her very first acting job.
