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Bowen Yang's Final Fantasy Is Happening Now

The culture maven, former SNL cast member, Broadway lead is still dreaming.

By Bowen Yang

Photos by Cait Opperman

Styling by Michael Fisher for The Wall Group

Grooming by Evy Drew

Brianna Lance’s Mystical Worlds

Inspired by divine femininity, ancient artifacts, and spiritual symbolism, the New York artist recreates her dreams in her fantastical paintings.

By Megan O'Sullivan

Photos by Tiffany Nicholson

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Bowen Yang's Final Fantasy Is Happening Now

The culture maven, former SNL cast member, Broadway lead is still dreaming.

FeaturesThe Fantasy Issue

Bowen Yang's Final Fantasy Is Happening Now

The culture maven, former SNL cast member, Broadway lead is still dreaming.

Are You My Mother?

A dispatch from the corporeal frontier of new motherhood.

By Nicola Pardy

EssaysThe Fantasy Issue

Are You My Mother?

A dispatch from the corporeal frontier of new motherhood.

BY NICOLA PARDY

On the Cover

Brianna Lance’s Mystical Worlds

Inspired by divine femininity, ancient artifacts, and spiritual symbolism, the New York artist recreates her dreams in her fantastical paintings.

By Megan O'Sullivan

EssaysThe Fantasy Issue

A World Without Men

My wildest fantasy is one where I can walk alone at night.

BY FLORA MEDINA

On The RiseThe Fantasy Issue

After Will Transport You to the Before Times

Steeped in nostalgia, 2000s futurism, cinema, and storytelling, the rising indie band’s latest album, Fell Asleep in the Sun, invites you inside their world.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

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Even My Sim Won’t Live Forever

Luce Sci is a florist destined for mortality, just like the rest of us.

BY MARINA SULMONA

EssaysThe Fantasy Issue

The shiny, slippery, slapping has always allowed me to leave my body. And what’s wrong with that?

CultureThe Fantasy Issue

Watch What Happens from the Sidelines

I thought I had to be fluent in football. It turns out Bravo is a sport of its own.

RoseLee Goldberg Wants You to Get Out More

Twenty years into Performa, RoseLee Goldberg is still finding new ways to surprise us. Next up: an extravaganza with Chloe Wise and Miles Greenberg.

BY GUTES GUTERMAN

In Defense of Going Phoneless at Phoebe Bridgers

The artist's halloween night performance at Intuit Dome opened my eyes to one of the most impressive cultural feats of our era: getting everyone to pay attention at a show sans-Smartphone.

Devon Again Is Keeping the Holidays Weird with Vans

The singer-songwriter talks teenage angst, hardcore music, and finding herself among fellow misfits in Vans' holiday campaign.

BY GUTES GUTERMAN

I Reached Press Trip Nirvana at The Cooper Hotel in Charleston

There's something to be said for the American breakfast-spa-boat excursion itinerary.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

On The RiseHow Did You Do It?

Anna Shoemaker on Her Latest Album, Growing Pains, and Getting Back to Her Roots

The former Brooklynite and musician takes us inside the world of her forthcoming record, Back to Pennsylvania.

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Babehoven on the Vision Behind Their New Album

The Hudson-based indie duo discusses what went into the creation of I See Them, I See Me.

A man somewhere between a limo driver and a Genovese underboss, ripping a Seneca menthol cigarette.

Collina Strada Has Other Plans For You

At Storm King, a runway show about detours became a lesson in flirting and instincts.

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Carissa Gallo on Her Film "Kink"—An Exploration of Friendship, Starring Kaia Gerber

What happens when we indulge the questions that linger in the deepest corners of our minds? Together, Gallo and Gerber go there, reminding us of the preciousness of friendships.

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Anna Sui’s Downtown Supremacy Lives on in Her Spring 2027 Collection

Her first-ever headline stands true. Anna Sui's Spring 2027 was reminder that the downtown darling's world of wonderment is forever original.

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There are many beautiful, kind, giving people who have helped me through this life.

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Max Wolf Friedlich’s New Play ‘The Holes’ is a Modern Fairytale

Following the success of JOB, Max Wolf Friedlich writes his latest work from the frontlines of the great culture wars.

How to Keep Playing

How grief made me serious – and play made me softer.

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Musical director Hayley Briasco takes a non-traditional approach to her career.

Kitchen Too Far

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A Stroke of Ambition

The dream of becoming someone worth watching meets the reality of being alive.

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Forgetting is a Slow Burn

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A Perfect Portrait

The child in the painting has no bad side.

New York's Greatest Movie Theatre is in The Rockaways

The Arverne Cinema is a patch of sand, some lawn chairs, and the best film crowd in New York.

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Lina Abascal on Following a Meme All the Way to Brazil

Inside Come to Brasil, a documentary about the fans who meant what they said.

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Two Truths and a Body

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Nights of Grace

An unemployed guy walks into a barre.

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Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Revamp The Rumpus

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman now own The Rumpus. What does that mean for the publication’s future?

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The Out of Body Gift Guide

Out of body, on the body, out and about, and staying in. Your summer gift guide is here.

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In Brooklyn, Pickup Basketball is Life

The bonds made during impromptu games are lifelong and cross-generational. For some, it's the center of their social lives.

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Daisy the Great on Making a Remix Album

The pop duo tapped a creative cohort to reimagine their latest album, The Rubber Teeth Talk With Friends.

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Olivia O’Brien Isn’t Your Average Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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The Summer I Got a Cystectomy

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Jack was very cheerful. He asked us if we wanted to have group sex. His cheeks were flushed from the cold.

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Body Horror, Baby

A special-effects artist finds mutation, motherhood, and beauty under the skin.

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Sukeban Packs a Poetic Punch

The all-female, fashion-forward Japanese professional wrestling league was founded by designer Olympia Le-Tan. Their competitions are equal parts fashion show, anime, and camp.

The Drug That Made Me Want Less

Ozempic promised to make me skinny and delivered a quieter appetite for everything.

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Staying Long After I’m Gone

A life spent leaving the body becomes a search for the self that stayed behind.

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Empress Of Comes Home

The artist turns rebuilding after the Altadena fires into an album about home, intuition, and her mother’s fearlessness.

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A Lifetime of Harmony Tividad

On her new album, Lifetime, Harmony Tividad makes room for joy, freedom, and every version of herself.

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Why Does Acceptance Feel Like a Formula?

The unspoken rules of being an upper-echelon gay involve a theory: to belong, you need two out of three.

On The RiseHow Did You Do It?

Josh Conway on Making his Solo Debut

How The Marías ’ Josh Conway made his first solo album, plum.

The Dream House

A recurring childhood dream becomes an adult investigation into reincarnation, imagination, and the strange authority of the stories children tell.

KatzPascale Lets the Room Cry

The New York duo make ambient, spell-like music for grief, catharsis, and whatever people need to feel.

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Moving Through It with Athleta

Our bodies usually know the way forward. But how do you listen before you move?

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Pursuing Perfection with Painter Tallulah Dirnfeld

The artist paints girlhood as something polished, strange, and quietly feral.

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Etienne Francey captures the return of spring through flowers transformed by light, color, and motion.

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A decade of sexting became a study in intimacy, performance, and control.

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The Longer Way (to Hear Yourself)

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For the Love of Life: Inside Spread the Jelly’s Motherhood Archive

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I Told Gloria Steinem About My Abortion

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200 Words with Owen Lang

Notes on emojis: our culture’s contemporary hieroglyphics.

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Published by Mike Brewer's imprint, Canned Planet, Concrete Catwalk captures the irreplicable looks of Manhattan's streets.

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Let Ray Bull Change Your Life

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Making Peace with Renewal

A story on moving through fear in Californian vignettes—on the road, by the water, at home—until the fear itself is finally forgiven.

BY GRACE DOUGHERTY

What Oscar Boyson's Film ‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ Did for All-American Digital Boyhood

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In ‘Jean’, Love Rarely Lands Where It Should

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Internet BrainAsk Lisa

What Do Parasocial Relationships Say About Your Psychology?

This week, Lisa—a licensed therapist with an MA and MFT—offers insight into what lies behind parasocial relationships and how to look underneath the hood of what makes a person more likely to have them.

BY LISA PEPPER-SATKIN

Me, Croissant, and Egypt

A week-long trip to Egypt turned into a months-long sabbatical, a much-needed escape, and a salve for grief.

Spring Shopping for Getting It Together

A practical guide to making things feel a little more livable again.

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Grace Ives is Somebody's Girlfriend

With her third album Girlfriend, Grace Ives reckons with shame, identity, and the possibility of actually feeling okay.

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CultureHow Did You Do It?

Charlie Rinehart-Jones on Writing a Play After Work

Starting without permission. Stealing from real conversations. Here’s how debut playwright and director Charlie Rinehart-Jones made LIFESTYLES.

Tanya Bush Wants You to Feel Something

The Cake Zine co-founder on her new cookbook Will This Make You Happy and and a life that resists neat answers.

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Fashion shows once represented the utmost center and most aspirational parts of the industry. I still hold onto the version I first loved.

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Did Men Ruin Motherhood?

For decades, society centered men as the foundational ingredient for safety, security, and child-rearing. It might have been a patriarchal illusion.

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Money Wisdom For the City-Living and Down Bad

This week, Lisa—a licensed therapist with an MA and MFT—offers a mantra for your money issues.

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200 Words with Amanda Burkett

The best invite of all is one from a friend.

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Inside the Hollywood Roosevelt, the art world ditches convention centers for hotel rooms and cabanas.

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There are thousands of people who made big life decisions based on realizations they had on psychadelics. And none of them seem to regret it.

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Yot Club Keeps it Simple

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BY GUTES GUTERMAN

The Grand Family Dinner

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The Beautiful and the Inconvenient

Once upon a time, we dried our linens on clotheslines. Hang drying is just one example of many disappearing romantic yet banal tasks—one that mostly exists outside of America today.

BY PETER MOLESWORTH

My father immigrated to America from the Philippines exactly 50 years ago. His life's work proves that immigrants are essential, especially in my home state of Texas. So why did I still struggle to feel at home?

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I Went to the Elena Velez Show Despite Everyone's Warnings

It was bad, but I had fun.

The Death of the Party Girl

Going sober meant leaving my vices and old self behind. It also meant finding the girl I was before—the one I yearned for all along.

BY GRACE BRASWELL

New York Fashion Week with a Side of Day Job

Come with me to play designer by day and fashion week attender by night (and sometimes day, too).

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FeaturesBuyline

Welcome to Buyline

Our new shopping column.

BY BYLINE EDITORS

CultureHow Did You Do It?

Madeline Cash on Writing ‘Lost Lambs’

The author on her writing routine, her day job, and how she approaches writer's block.

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200 Words with Shaad D'Souza

Processed foods, GLP-1s, and being punishingly beautiful.

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Broadway’s ‘Liberation’ Is A Salve For Female Rage

Playwright Bess Wohl tells the story of who her mother was before her time.

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Remember Summer? Hereʼs a Refresher.

The promise and possibility of a warmer season feel dreadfully foreign in freezing temps. But it's still within reach.

BY KOSTA KARAKASHYAN

The stick doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Precariousness of Girlhood and Eternal Union

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

That’s Slutty To You

Miss Cheff if you’re nasty. The internet’s sultry, smart enigma and author of Tart is making a name for herself.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

As his aging father unveils an erotic pivot in his legendary art career, a struggling young painter makes some lifestyle changes of his own.

“What’s In My Bag” is the New Still Life

The handbag as a portal into recognition, a mirror of modern identity.

BY SARA R. RADIN

Molly Baz Wants To Write About America’s Best Diners

In the meantime, she's working on her third cookbook. We caught up with her to find out what's next from the New York Times bestselling author.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

Rozzi’s Learning What to Hold On To

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BY GUTES GUTERMAN

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Byline sits down with the writer, podcaster, and fashion critical theorist to discuss her new Substack American Style, the contemporary culture complex, and a mutual reverence for style.

BY MAYA KOTOMORI

Anwar Hadid Prepares for Flight

The burgeoning musician and designer discusses his official foray into fashion, new band, and off-the-grid mentality.

Must Love Basics with Dione Davis

The stylist shares her five musts when it comes to dressing up, down, and everything in between.

Am I Too Horny or Too Online?

On finding fantasy in the flesh and in a world of gooning, Grindr, and going out.

BY LUKE FRANCIS AUSTIN

Lori Anne was her father’s daughter for one strange, perfect week in Paris.

BY ALEC GEWIRTZ

The Cost of Pleasure

Where want meets need, small pleasures become acts of dignity, memory, and connection in dying.

BY LEAH RAE HULGIN

Zoe Dubno Refuses to Square the Circle

The author sits down to discuss her debut novel Happiness & Love, the concept of the “scene,” and the beauty in contradiction.

BY MAYA KOTOMORI

Alex G’s New Joyride

The indie musician sat down with Byline pre-tour to discuss his latest studio album Headlights, his love of movie scores, and the many moments that bring him mirth.

BY THORA SIEMSEN

Aminatou Sou Sees You, Too

Through friendship, introspection, and a refusal to perform certainty, the writer and cultural observer explores what it means to look closer, at ourselves, at each other, and the lives we’re building together.

BY GUTES GUTERMAN

How Does That Feel In Your Body?

BY NATHAN DRAGON

Descent and Return

Confronting my climate anxiety opened my eyes to the radical possibilities of the future.

BY ARABELLA BRECK

In Defense of Thinking Small

Not everything has to be grand. In fact, it shouldn’t be.

BY CASSANDRA PINTRO

Roman’s on DeKalb

My Return to an Unfinished Dream

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FeaturesEditor's Desk

Jerry Saltz Has Visions

When the art critic and author looks to the future, he sees a world where criticism is alive and well. He spent the last three decades mastering the skill of seeing, digesting, and critiquing—and won a Pulitzer Prize along the way. If there’s one man who can play a role in saving the art of honest writing, it’s Jerry Saltz.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

The Untold Story of Black Cowboys

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BY JASMINE DESIREE

On The RiseWriters On Writers

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Sex writer Camille Sojit Pejcha has made a career out of writing what others keep quiet—now she’s turning her audience into a community.

BY ALESSANDRA SCHADE

I'm Losing Interest In The Chase

What happens when your reasons for running toward figurative finish lines are no longer relevant?

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

The Truth According To Tommy Dorfman

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BY TOMMY DORFMAN

Chi Ossé Says The City Needs You

The New York City Council member and activist is going to bat for the culture of this town—but he can’t do it alone.

From GQ Design Director To Free Agent

Why stepping off the clouted career merry-go-round was an essential risk to take.

A Love Letter To Palestinian Women

Amidst an ongoing genocide, I’m looking to the Palestinian women in my life for the strength to keep going.

BY SAMAA KHULLAR

In Defense Of The Drunk Text

Go ahead and send it. You might learn something you didn't already know.

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On The RiseThe Young and The Restless

James Veloria Is The Serious Vintage Hub For Unserious People

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Leah Thomas Says There's A Better Way To Think About Climate Change

When global warming feels overwhelming, the environmentalist finds wisdom in the earth's biodiversity, what it means to self sustain, and the belief that an abundance of solutions exist.

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Myha'la Herrold is Caught Red-Handed

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YHWH Nailgun Plays The Long Game

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Sustainability Doesn’t Exist Under Colonialism

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BY CÉLINE SEMAAN

How I Killed Liam Payne

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The Spirit Of Surf

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A Case For Surrendering To The Love Of Your Friends

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For Recho Omondi, Knowledge Has Always Been Power

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What Womanhood Feels Like In Japan

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BY MEGUMI KOIWAI

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BY KELLY ZUTRAU

The Perilous Act Of Writing About Someone Who’s Going To Read It

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A short story about a tour guide in Italy who brings a couple to a holy site each day. Disenchantment ensues.

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The Price of Milk, Eggs, and Wellbeing

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Anne Imhof Dares To Reject Tradition

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Love And Other Bugs

To squash or to endure? That is the question.

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50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

And 50 ways to find a new one.

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BY MADELINE MONTOYA

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As creative director for Chappell Roan, she is quite literally your favorite artist’s favorite artist.

Lina Sun Park Weaves A Spell From The Every Day

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BY GUTES GUTERMAN

It's Time To Quit Your Therapist

Sometimes, the person meant to help you is the vice you need to drop.

The story of a boy I finally never texted back.

BY MACKENZIE THOMAS

Catching The Thief Of Joy Red-Handed

How to quit comparison, an age-old habit exacerbated by the digital era.

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Blu DeTiger Brings The Bass Front And Center

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The Untold Paradox Of A Nose Job

Since getting a nose job at 18, I've lamented losing what was actually mine.

BY CHARLIE Q. KOLBRENER

Will I Ever Stop Obsessing Over My Skin?

You can’t avoid your skin. But you can learn how to live with it. Sort of.

BY LUCAS OAKELEY

Holding My Mother On The Kitchen Floor

The gradual, and inevitable, process of understanding our mothers through seeing them in ourselves.

BY CHLOÉ DESAULLES

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Illyse Singer Sets The Scene At Roxy Cinema

On the heels of The Downtown Festival, festival director Rebekah Sherman-Myntti sits down with Illyse Singer, the programming director of Roxy Cinema, to talk about the state of movies, festivals, and theaters.

BY REBEKAH SHERMAN-MYNTTI

My Daughter's Face Taught Me To Love My Own

It took seeing my own features—the ones I once tried to hide most—reflected back to me through my first born’s face to learn to love them.

BY KARINA MUSLIMOVA

How Does the Male Gaze Impact Female Friendships?

I've been on both sides, and so have you. There is a case to be made for fighting the nasty ways perceived attractiveness can impact friendships and self esteem.

BY JULIA ROSE ENG

Reflections Of Clairo

For Clario, her new album, Charm, is her latest experiment in self-exploration. In an original essay, she writes about what confidence, beauty, and mystery mean to her.

Ashley Reese Has a Bad Brain

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Bassvictim Is London's Rising Underground Act

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Chanel Beads Forages A Dream

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The Gay Art Of Walking Fast

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Margeaux Labat Proves Taste Still Matters

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BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

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José on his Instagram persona, the importance of writing about “queer shit” and landing the job a million girls would kill for at Vogue Runway.

BY NICOLE DEMARCO

Samia On The Memories That Shape Us

A moment of reticence at a party prompts Samia to excavate the experiences that form her identity.

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The actor, writer, comedian, and musician knows what it means to be a multi-hyphenate today — and he was made for it.

BY JABOUKIE YOUNG-WHITE

Anastasia Coope Is Cementing Time With Music

On the heels of her new single, "Woke Up and No Feet," the singer and painter invites us into her studio to talk about her songwriting, the physicality of recording music, and straddling everything at once.

BY SAOIRSE BERTRAM

The Year ThatSounded Like Yaeji

One year after the release of her debut album, With A Hammer, Yaeji reflects on the freedom she found in making noise.

John Roseboro Started Over. Now, He’s A Bossa Nova Trailblazer.

The “post-bossa nova” darling is revolutionizing a traditional sound to fit today’s context, but not without some mysticism.

BY MEHER QAZILBASH

In Defense Of The Digital Eavesdropper

For chronic eavesdropper Mia Freund, Spotify Friend Activity is a dizzying world full of strangers' secrets and hidden tales.

BY MIA BARZILAY FREUND

Is Noise Cancelled?

After taking a pair of noise-cancelling Airpods for a spin, noise seems absolutely necessary.

What To Do When Bad People Make Good Music

When the music bops... it bops. So when is it okay to give into music made by the morally corrupt?

BY MICHAEL CUBY

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The World According To The Voidz' Julian Casablancas

In a wide-spanning interview, The Voidz frontman sits down with Rebekah Sherman-Myntti to talk about his process, total truth, The Strokes, and so much more.

BY REBEKAH SHERMAN-MYNTTI

Your Honor, I'm Literally Just A Girl <3

Girl dressing — think bows, Mary Janes, scrunchies — is the internet's most prevalent fashion subculture. But where did it come from?

The New York Artist Mur Is Moving Into A New Dimension

The composer and director, who once lived in his art studio full-time, talks about his upcoming opera, covering spiritual ground, and moving into a new home.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

Laura Reilly Says Her Readers Are All Really Hot

The newsletter maven on escaping fashion, her writing routine, starting her own line one day, and objectifying her followers.

BY MEGAN O'SULLIVAN

The Siren Basics Sisters Are No Strangers To The Perils Of Family Business

Clara and Brenda Liang, the sisters behind Siren Basics, talk working together, building worlds, and embracing the panopticon.

BY ALEX JHAMB BURNS

On The RiseWriters On Writers

Danya Issawi Is Putting It In Writing

The New York-based media maven has plans to expand her horizons, setting her sights on Snoopy, a few novels, and maybe even a quaint cottage.

BY TYLER MCCALL

June McDoom Carries A Tune

The New York City based musician has learned that in order to make music, she needs space and solo time.

BY LINNIE GREENE

On The RiseHot Girl Lit

Reigning The Internet With Rayne Fisher-Quann

Cultural critic Rayne Fisher-Quann discusses parasocial relationships, her upcoming book, and the performance of being a woman on the internet.

On The RiseA New Creative Class

Clara Perlmutter Is Betting On Herself

The fashion-focused TikToker, otherwise known as Tiny Jewish Girl, broke from the traditional path to becoming a lawyer to become a creator. Now, she's ready to put pen to paper.

BY CLARA PERLMUTTER

Indie Sleaze Had Its Revival. Billy Jones Was There All Along.

The owner of Baby’s All Right has seen it all, and then some. What comes next?

BY ANNIE ARMSTRONG

On The RiseA New Creative Class

Anna Ling Is A Creative Cupid

The New York-based art director, model, and founder of creative agency Maruchi wants to normalize embracing our multitudes in how we approach work.

BY TIANA RANDALL

Wiki and ‘Depths of Wikipedia’ on Coming of Age Online

As part of our debut issue, Will Gottsegen investigates where the rapper and the writer might intersect, beyond their names.

BY WILL GOTTSEGEN

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A Mugler Muse: Erica Vanbriel On The SS98 ‘Nipple Ring’ Dress

A conversation with the woman behind one of Mugler's greatest runway looks.

BY HUNTER SHIRES

Who Builds The Internet? Meet Wikipedia's Architects

The world wide web of Wikipedia, as told by its editors.

BY GUTES GUTERMAN

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How The Selfie Set Us Free

Ten years after its inception, it's clear that the selfie has changed the way we see and present ourselves. Is it for the best?

By Taylor Lorenz

The Beauty Issue

The Truth In Our Digital Reflections

The internet’s dominating beauty presence too often obscures the richness that beauty can offer.

A decade of sexting became a study in intimacy, performance, and control.

By Gutes Guterman

In Defense of Thinking Small

Not everything has to be grand. In fact, it shouldn’t be.

By Cassandra Pintro