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  1. profile
    Maria Bakalova Never Dreamed of Doing ComedyBut upstaging Borat has a way of changing your life.
  2. encounter
    Beeple’s Post-NFT ChapterThe digital artist made a pile of money on NFTs before the crypto market crashed. Now he has his eyes on the art world.
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    Doechii to the Front of the ClassThe rapper from Tampa is about to be everywhere.
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    Myha’la Herrold Knows She’s GoodThe Industry star is just as ambitious as her junior-banker character. The big difference? “I don’t act crazy.”
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    Nathan Fielder Is Out of His Mind (and Inside Yours)The comedian is known for his often hilarious, sometimes mean, always uncomfortable stunts. The Rehearsal is his grandest experiment yet.
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    In Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, Yola Becomes Her Own HeroWhat would rock and roll — or all of music — be without its architect Sister Rosetta Tharpe? For starters, no Yola.
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    Sonic YouthsIn Chicago with Horsegirl, the teen rock trio behind one of the year’s most confident albums.
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    Silly Little FreakoThe “Megan Stalter character” is its own comedy genre now. Where does the real person end and her personae begin?
  9. profile
    Hot Joel SummerJoel Kim Booster’s deliciously bawdy debut film, Fire Island, maps Pride and Prejudice’s class tensions onto the vacation hideaway for gay men.
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    ‘Have You Read Nevada?’Imogen Binnie’s first novel became a staple of trans literature. Nine years and one reissue later, how much has the culture changed?
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    ‘The Goal Is to Get As Bright As Possible’For the highly prolific writer Akwaeke Emezi, literary success is a spiritual calling.
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    Fernanda Melchor y la tragedia del machismoCon historias inspiradas en el crimen, la novelista arroja luz a los rincones oscuros de la masculinidad.
  13. encounter
    ‘What Would You Like to Know?’An afternoon of pleasant negotiation with actor, stealth musician, and Taylor Swift muse Joe Alwyn.
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    Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic MachismoIn her crime-inspired novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.
  15. profile
    Margo Jefferson Makes Her WayWith her book Constructing a Nervous System, the critic set herself a challenge: to recount her life through a web of influences.
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    In Another Life, Ke Huy Quan Was a StarHe was an ’80s icon who left acting behind. For his role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, he called on his past selves.
  17. profile
    Taylor Tomlinson’s Off-Trend ComedyHer old-school act is a hit onstage and on TikTok. And she’s only getting bigger.
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    Hailey Whitters Made a Home for Country Music in the HeartlandHer new album Raised is a voice for a part of America that Nashville often overlooks.
  19. profile
    John Cameron Mitchell on Playing Joe Exotic and How Annoying NYC Has BecomeHe’s bought a house in New Orleans, where bohemia is still cost-effective.
  20. profile
    Gunna Pushed Himself to the TopAfter a decade making music, the rapper is finally known for his name alone.
  21. profile
    Quinta Brunson Made Network TV Cool AgainShe got famous through her memes. Now she has created the most charming show of the winter, Abbott Elementary.
  22. profile
    Mitski in 9 ActsIf the musician has to reveal herself at all, she’d rather do it one short burst at a time.
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    Sean Thor Conroe, ProtégéBefore the writer could publish his first novel, Fuccboi, he lost his fiercest advocate. Now he’s facing the hype alone.
  24. podcasts
    Why Are All Your Cool Friends Listening to How Long Gone?A closer look at the bro-y culture podcast’s unexpected appeal.
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    Who’s Afraid of Podcast Provocateur Dasha Nekrasova?She’s on a hit HBO show and made a horror movie about Jeffrey Epstein. Are her days of niche fame over?
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    Bad Bunny DesconectadoEste año, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio cumplió 27 años. Ha sido un momento de introspección.
  27. profile
    Bad Bunny Off CycleBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio turned 27 this year. It’s been a time for introspection.
  28. profile
    Simon Rex Doesn’t Want to Be That Guy AnymoreThe former MTV VJ partied his way through the early aughts, lost his career for a decade, and now, improbably, is being lauded by the Hollywood elite.
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    ‘The Depth Is in the Pictures, Not What I Say About Them’Rosalind Fox Solomon has been making haunting photographs for 50 years. She’s got more stories to tell than she lets on.
  30. profile
    Matt Berry Has a TypeThe actor is known for playing ridiculous characters with a straight face — the stupider the better.
  31. profile
    Writing Through the MomentThe Kings are known for making TV that captures the Zeitgeist. It’s a high-wire act that’s gotten trickier post-Trump.
  32. profile
    Kumail Nanjiani’s FeelingsThe actor always wanted his own superhero transformation. Now he’s buff, a Marvel star, and struggling with how much of his new body is his own.
  33. profile
    Under Her SkinJulia Ducournau lets us in on the years of fury, angst, and comedy that fueled the Palme d’Or–winning, genre-smashing Titane.
  34. profile
    How Do You Follow The Sopranos?David Chase returns to the masterpiece he’s been unable to escape since it went off the air 14 years ago.
  35. profile
    Hearing Things With Ruth OzekiHer latest novel teems with voices — most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.”
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    Getting to Know H.E.R.The artist is halfway to an EGOT, but she’s still a mystery to the masses. You have to see her live to understand her.
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    Adrienne Warren Stands UpShe opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb.
  38. profile
    The Myth MakersVeneno turned a forgotten trans trailblazer into a global icon. Creators Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo just might be next.
  39. profile
    They Call Him Loop DaddyMarc Rebillet livestreams improvised music to millions of fans, often in just his boxer briefs.
  40. profile
    Anthony Veasna So Knew He Was a StarWhen the author died at 28, he was on the cusp of literary fame. Everyone remembers him differently.
  41. theater
    Redemption, Now on BroadwayAntoinette Chinonye Nwandu is determined for her play Pass Over to end on a high note — if she can just stick the rewrite.
  42. profile
    Boys, InterruptingAt home with Please Don’t Destroy, the sketch-comedy group all over your feeds.
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    The Untidy Tales of Katie KitamuraHer hypnotic new novel asks: What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?
  44. profile
    Saweetie Wants You to See Her SweatShe’s not yet the rapper she aspires to be. It’s all part of her long fame game.
  45. profile
    Tim Robinson Is Sorry for YellingOn I Think You Should Leave, the comedian’s anxieties fuel a vast world of jerks, idiots, and outright assholes.
  46. profile
    The Joke Was Never on Jennifer CoolidgeShe spins roles as trophy wives and divorcées into comic gold. Now she gets to show what else she can do.
  47. profile
    The Real ZolaA’Ziah King’s Twitter tale of a strip-club road trip gone awry is now a big buzzy movie. Now she’s ready to make her story her own again.
  48. profile
    Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling PowersHer new novel is about a vicious, real-life witch hunt—and she somehow still managed to make it funny.
  49. encounter
    It Took Coming Home for CHAI to Go Global“We realized … you don’t really have to go push yourself onto somebody to tell them that you’re fun.”
  50. movie review
    Profile Captures the Anxiety of Our All-Digital Lives, But Is That a Good Thing?Come for the ISIS recruitment exposé, stay for the social-media nightmare.
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