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There seems to be a sense in the book that, despite all of these differences, we’re all making these little lies together. I think that’s right. Maybe “optimistic” is not quite the right word, but there’s a sense of optimism in this book? I think that there’s a sense of some promise of something. And

By “we,” Trump means the Republican Party, which scored a victory on mail-in ballots before the Supreme Court just as Amy Coney Barrett was being confirmed. The five Republican appointees kept in place a ruling that confined the deadline for receipt of mail-in ballots to Election Day, as state law dictates—disregarding a judge’s order extending

A treasured scene for me: a late-middle-aged Bill Murray, in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, showing up at Scarlett Johansson’s hotel room door in an inappropriately youthful orange camouflage T-shirt, only for Johansson to burst out laughing. Murray retreats to the bathroom, turns the shirt inside out. And into the Tokyo night they go, undaunted.

To paraphrase Juelz Santana, Sean Pablo is 23 and lives a crazy life. He’s the heartthrob of Supreme’s skate team, known for his balletic 360 flip and badass grimace; he also rides for Jason Dill’s skate brand, Fucking Awesome. He travels all around the world with Supreme, having his photograph taken and filming for the

Switch is one of a number of artists at the forefront of the #EndSARS movement, which has brought Nigeria to a complete standstill in less than three weeks. Instigated by musicians Run Town and Falz, the protests kicked off with a march in Lagos on October 8th. Fueled by women’s organizations like the Feminist Coalition

As Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin has cut a striking figure through the last decade of electronic music. The 38-year-old’s career began in the underground noise scene, when he released synth-laden new age abstractions, and has taken him down fascinating paths not often traveled by avant-garde musicians, like touring with Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails,

The Nautilus Maldives Despite the Maldives recently tightening entry requirements after a spike in coronavirus cases, the Indian Ocean archipelago is still one of the world’s most popular post-pandemic travel destinations – its glittering string of islands perfectly set up for social distanced travel. And if a tropical paradise complete with swaying palms and thatched

Three years ago, when Bryan Washington started sporadically tapping out the earliest draft of Memorial on his phone’s Notes app — while waiting for dinner to simmer, or between teaching ESL classes— he envisioned the self-proclaimed “queer traumedy” as a short story with limited appeal. After all, there wasn’t exactly a robust market for a

RAPPER WARRIOR NINJA (ERIC ANDRE SHOW, 2016) [embedded content] One clear influence on Andre’s standup comes from the Jackass crew of misfits. “Those guys are the best at what they do. They’re daredevils, but they’re likable,” he says. The inspiration is most obvious in the way Andre and the show’s guests constantly put their bodies

We talked about family, religion, music—Jersey law requires me to ask you about football and politics. I know you’re a fan of at least one of those things. But you seem to code switch between worlds and get along with lots of different people. I don’t think that I get along with lots of different

I’ve been lucky enough to win a championship at five or six other places. And they feel really similar. They really do, except for it’s just such a big stage and you just gotta kind of treat them all the same, you know? That’s like me saying I won a junior high writing contest and

The overall mood of the final presidential debate was one of relative restraint. The final diss track mix-tapes from Donald Trump and Joe Biden featured mostly recycled beats: Hunter Biden, Putin, fracking, and most of all, the sputtering and confused response to Coronavirus. Despite the presence of Kid Rock in the audience, the vibe was

Administering the oath to new Americans, a pinnacle of the immigrant experience, is one of the great civic functions the government performs on behalf of the citizenry. In August, Donald Trump found a way to demean this precious ceremony for a handful of new citizens when he staged a naturalization event on White House grounds

Welcome back to Fit Diaries, where GQ asks our favorite style lords to document a week through their outfits. Up next: LANY’s lead vocalist, Paul Klein. Paul Klein would be the first to tell you that he idolizes Ralph Lauren. He’s obsessed with the legendary American designer: his ability to transcend “cool,” to exist beyond

The song “Ingydar” deals with some of that, in a way. What is that word, “Ingydar”? Ingydar was the name of my great aunt Becky’s horse, who passed away when I was a kid. But the song itself, I have to say, it isn’t really about that horse. That was just a fragment from the

The authenticity of American politicians can be measured by any number of fuzzy metrics. Perhaps you’ve heard the most famous one, “He seems like a guy I could grab a beer with.” There’s no particular way to measure the beerosity of a public figure, but you know it in your gut. The beer represents a

Image Courtesy of The Cape, A Thompson Hotel A longtime favorite destination of the American jet-set, The Cape, a Thompson Hotelin Cabos San Lucas has reemerged as a top holiday destination for travelers from all corners of the world looking for a sweet escape. The resort’s newly implemented safety precautions, lively pool scene, award-winning restaurants,