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Despite growing up in the South, GQ columnist Chris Black never found religion when it came to football. But he’s all-in on a gripping new documentary series that reveals the hidden routines and mental strength that drives three of the game’s greatest athletes. By Chris Black August 10, 2023 Illustration by Michael Houtz This is

The New Hollywood auteur, who died this week, made an indelible mark on queer film history with The Boys in the Band and Cruising. By Kyle Turner August 10, 2023 Photographs: Everett Collection; Collage: Gabe Conte “You are a real card-carrying cunt.” That line comes from Michael, a self-excoriating character in William Friedkin’s 1970 film

The director of this summer’s most hotly anticipated royal gay romcom talked to GQ about the movie’s sex scenes, surprise cameos, and what got cut. By Joel Pavelski August 10, 2023 Photograph by Rob Youngson / EPK.TV “You put the camera on both of them and you let them play,” says Matthew Lopez, director of

A conversation with the author, whose novel White Tears was input as source material for a controversial site called Prosecraft this week. By Chris Gayomali August 9, 2023 Photograph by Clayton Cubbitt; Collage: Gabe Conte On Monday, Hari Kunzru, the Brooklyn-based author behind celebrated novels like White Tears and Red Pill, became the center of

Lanez was found guilty in December 2022 and faced up to 22 years. By Grant Rindner August 8, 2023 Tory Lanez attend his Memories Don’t Die CD Signing at DTLR on March 7, 2018 in Decatur, Georgia.Courtesy of Paras Griffin via Getty Images Rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for

The digital age magician freaked Uzi and their friends out, but did leave Uzi wanting to learn how to crack their girl’s phone passcode. By Heven Haile August 8, 2023 Anna DeGuzman is a master magician of the digital age. The 24-year-old Filipina-American knows her way around a few intricate card tricks, but she’s built

Kanye’s appearance at Travis’ Circus Maximus show was his biggest public sighting in months. By Grant Rindner August 8, 2023 Travis Scott performs with Kanye West at FYF Fest 2015 at LA Sports Arena & Exposition Park on August 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of Brian Gove via WireImage/Getty Travis Scott is taking his

The Watchmen, The Good Place, and Master of None writer weighs in on why this strike could determine the fate of Hollywood. By Frazier Tharpe August 8, 2023 Photograph: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte As the Hollywood writers strike rages on—and with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) having joined the WGA in the fray in

He was a rising TikTok star when his playful pitch to join Saturday Night Live went massively, disastrously viral. “I was not able to do anything to move my life forward for an entire year,” Novak tells GQ. And then a new wave of fans began clamoring for his return. By Kate Lindsay August 7,

Today, Barbiehood has evolved from the archetype of the blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman. That’s a credit to the undertaking of rappers like Nicki Minaj. By Heven Haile August 6, 2023 Photograph: Getty Images; Collage: Armando Zaragoza Kent Theater, Brooklyn. Five minutes until Barbie starts. Here, girlhood is sacred. Unsupervised tweens in hot-pink bobs record TikToks in

You might not have heard of Erika de Casier. But the Portugal-born, Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter helped bring “Super Shy” and “Cool With You” to life on the K-pop group’s Billboard chart-topping new EP, Get Up. And now, she’s poised for a breakout year herself. By Raymond Ang August 4, 2023 As of press time, the Copenhagen-based

As the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes continue, studios have moved back some of the fall’s most anticipated films. By Grant Rindner August 4, 2023 Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O’Connor are turning the sexy up in tennis in Luca Guadagnino’s new film Challengers.Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes continue to

In an interview with GQ, comedian Kyle Gordon talks about the rousing success of his fake ‘90s Eurodance hit. By Gabriella Paiella August 4, 2023 Everybody movement! What, exactly, makes a song the song of the summer? It can never be forced. It must simply float into the ether and, through a mystical combination of

The New York rapper got shot seven times last summer. Now he’s back with a new outlook on life and his career. By Jordan Coley August 4, 2023 “You wanna go more gangsta love, white love, or Black love?” Lil Tjay is scavenging his phone for the right vibe from his new album, 222, to

GQ columnist Chris Black visits Cerletty in his studio, where the painter can spend weeks making a single painting of a street sign, cracker box, or envelope. “I’m going for that low-output, high-quality thing,” he says. By Chris Black August 3, 2023 Illustration by Michael Houtz; Photo by Chris Black This is an edition of

Writer and producer Mikey Alfred remembers his friend and collaborator, who, among other things, didn’t hesitate to tell Euphoria director Sam Levinson that his scripts were “goofy.” By Cole Louison August 3, 2023 Long before he wooed Maude Apatow in Euphoria, or cast alongside Pete Davidson in The Things They Carried, Angus Cloud was a

The notoriously shy rapper went to rehab, stopped caring about clothes, and proceeded to release Pink Tape, one of the weirdest, most exciting albums of the summer. By Frazier Tharpe Photography by Charlie Engman August 3, 2023 Clothing, accessories, and jewelry, (throughout), their own. Jacket, by Comme des Garçons. Jeans, by Skoloct Denim. Shoes and

The Rays’ righty would happily accept a role in Christopher Nolan’s next movie. By Matthew Roberson August 2, 2023 Julio Aguilar/Getty Images We know that Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow looks like Cillian Murphy. Glasnow knows he looks like Murphy. Murphy knows he looks like Glasnow. But we didn’t know—at least until Tuesday night

With The Righteous Gemstones’ Uncle Baby Billy, Goggins has once again turned a terrible person into someone you want to see win. By Brandy Jensen August 2, 2023 Walton Goggins in The Righteous Gemstones.Courtesy of Jake Giles Netter for HBO. Plenty of actors are capable of stealing a scene—Walton Goggins will convince you it belonged

A TV betrayal for the ages. By Grant Rindner August 2, 2023 Sarah Snook says a win for Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) in Succession is not a win for Shiv.Courtesy of HBO As months have passed since Succession’s conclusion, many of us are still debating Shiv Roy’s last-second betrayal, which cleared the way for her estranged