Lauren Greenfield on Generation Wealth and the Culture of Money That Made Trump Possible
In the 1990s, director/photographer Lauren Greenfield began a project taking pictures of high school students at her…
'Women's Identity Is Composed of Myths': Author Samantha Hunt on Mermaids and the Reissue of The Seas
Nearly a decade before Samantha Hunt published her haunting novel Mr. Splitfoot and years before The Invention of…
'We Have to Apply Pressure': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Done With the Democratic Status Quo
Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, there has been a quiet but steady rise of women and people of color…
SOPHIE on Her New Album, Old Disco, and Expressing Trans Identity in Music
A squeal that sounded like some sort of feedback ripped out of my phone as SOPHIE thanked me for calling. Our 30-minute…
Hereditary Director Ari Aster on Taking Family Tragedy and Curdling It Into a Nightmare
Last week, I met Ari Aster, the writer and director of the horror film Hereditary, in the A24 office. For about 20…
What George Eliot's Hands Had to Do With the Sex Lives of Dairy Maids: A Chat With a Victorianist
There’s still a lingering perception that Victorians were stuffy to the point of being wholly out of touch with their…
Toni Collette on the Horror and Beauty of Grief in Hereditary
“H’aw’ya?” Toni Collette asked me as I entered the conference room at A24's New York City office on Monday. It’s hard…
Sex and the City Costume Designer Pat Field Is Still the Most Stylish Person in New York
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic…
Gina Gershon Didn't Like Scripts She Was Receiving, so She Wrote Her Own One-Woman Show
“We can’t do a whole interview about Showgirls,” Gina Gershon exhaled, not five minutes into our conversation at Odeon…
The Very Gay, Very Black Gospel According to serpentwithfeet
It took decades for Josiah Wise to find his voice. This is figuratively true for most developing adults, but for Wise,…
Revenge Director Coralie Fargeat on Playing With Film Clichés and the Artistic Power of Blood
“Women always have to put up a fucking fight,” Revenge’s main villain, a chiseled, wealthy businessman, at one point…
We Asked a Viscountess and Ladies of London Star About What Lies Ahead for Meghan Markle
Who better to ask about the road before Meghan Markle than an American who married into the British aristocracy…
Asia Argento on Her Film Scarlet Diva and Why It's Okay for Women to Be Enraged Right Now
“I’m Anna Battista, I’m 24 years old, I live in Rome, and I’m the most lonely girl in the world,” Asia Argento’s lead…
Royal Fashion Experts Speculate on Meghan's Wedding Dress and Whether She'll Go Tiara
She isn’t a royal yet, but Meghan Markle has rapidly ascended to the uppermost echelons of global celebrity, and that…
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
It was the golden gown meme-d around the world: the gorgeously embroidered, yellow cape that Rihanna wore to the 2015…
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
In the early 1990s, Liz Phair started getting letters.
An Interview With the Co-Director of Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
The act of watching a documentary in the same room as the subject’s family and friends is a harrowing experience,…
