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Asia Argento on Her Film Scarlet Diva and Why It's Okay for Women to Be Enraged Right Now
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Royal Fashion Experts Speculate on Meghan's Wedding Dress and Whether She'll Go Tiara
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Talking With Tanya Saracho About Vida, Her Thrilling New Queer Latinx TV Series
On Sunday, Starz will air the first episode of Vida, a new series about two Mexican American sisters who, after their…
Yellow Is Forbidden Takes You Inside Designer Guo Pei's Dazzling, Golden World
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The Fourth Estate Is a Crucial Look Into How the New York Times Covers Trump
There has never been a more fraught time to practice journalism in America, with the President regularly attacking the…
Barbara Ehrenreich Isn't Afraid to Die
Barbara Ehrenreich is “old enough to die,” she writes in her new book, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The…
A Conversation With Liz Phair on Guyville, Growing Up, and Getting a Woman's Life Into History
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An Interview With the Co-Director of Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
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A Sex Researcher Explains How to Fuck Mindfully (and Why Lesbian Bed Death Is Fake)
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The Rider Director Chloé Zhao Makes Grown Men Cry
The Rider destroyed me when I saw it, and then again when I tried talking about it with friends after, and then again…
A Conversation With Andie MacDowell on the Messiness of Grief in Her Film Love After Love
In her new film, Love After Love, Andie MacDowell plays Suzanne, a woman whose perfect life falls apart after the…
'That's a Lot of Emotion for Safe!' A Brief Chat With Aquaria of RuPaul's Drag Race
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Director Lynne Ramsay: 'I'm Uncertain About What Reality Is in This World'
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay has made just four features in almost 20 years, which on one hand sucks, if you’re a fan…
Chloë Sevigny on the Whiteness of Film, Sensitive Horses, and Why It's Hard for Her to Lie
It took less than a minute for Chloë Sevigny to cut through the formalities that placed us in the same room at the same…
A Conversation with Director Nancy Buirski About the Untold Story of Recy Taylor
On September 3, 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor was walking home from a church revival in rural Alabama. That evening,…
An 'Accidental Jane Austen Superfan' on Stepping Into Mr. Darcy's Tights and the Wonder of Austenworld
“Some are born Janeites, some achieve Janeism, and some have Janeism thrust upon them,” Ted Scheinman writes in his…
From Renoir's Dancer to Groundbreaking Artist: A Chat With the Biographer of Suzanne Valadon
You’ve almost certainly seen the face of Suzanne Valadon, the woman who modeled for Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s famous…
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