Lifestyle

Matt Damon Wore Rolex’s Newest Conversation Piece to ‘The Odyssey’ Premiere
It’s a good thing Odysseus didn’t have a wristwatch to track every agonizing second of the decade he spent wandering the wine-dark sea following the siege of Troy. Then...
Bad Bunny and Adidas Are Closing Out the World Cup With One Last Hot Sneaker
From lifestyle-friendly cleats to country-inspired colorways to some of the buzziest collabs of the year, the sneaker world went all in on World Cup 2026 releases. Now, ahead of...
I Got My First Butt Facial, and It Won’t Be My Last
Michael Aronwits, a registered aesthetic nurse, took me back and began with the kind of skincare assessment I imagine people with actual routines answer very confidently. He asked what...
Jay-Z’s Hit-Packed Yankee Stadium Shows Turned the Ballpark into a Throne Room
This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Tap In, GQ senior associate editor Frazier Tharpe’s final word on the most heated online discourse about music, movies, and TV....
The 76 Best Menswear Moments of Wimbledon 2026
Wimbledon has crowned its 2026 champions: Jannik Sinner and Linda Nosková. While football fanatics have been otherwise occupied these past few weeks, tennis fans flocked to southwest London for...
Dwayne Johnson Wore a Unique ‘Moana’-Inspired Watch
The reviews for the new live-action Moana movie aren’t sparkling but there’s at least one amazing thing to come out of the film. Dwayne Johnson’s reprisal of demigod Maui...

World

How I Lost Faith in Google
This voice-of-Google thing—­a code I’d cracked for generating corpspeak with personality—­slowly became a hot commodity. The company relied heavily on the rhetoric of “culture” to keep tens of thousands...
Christopher Nolan Has Always Been Making “The Odyssey”
There are times when you can sense Nolan’s frustration—not with Homer so much as his own inability to reshape the material into something more than mere spectacle. When Odysseus...
The A.I. Gender Gap Meets the Parenting Gender Gap
Labor-saving technology tends to create domestic systems that are far more efficient over all, but not necessarily easier for the people doing the labor. As the historian Ruth Schwartz...
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes
Nolan advances his vision, however crowd-pleasing and anachronistic, with vigorous confidence and unimpeachable clarity. The dialogue, terse and contemporary, puts his distinguished cast of actors in their comfort zone...
An Unbeliever’s View of the Jonestown Massacre
On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple died at Jonestown, the agricultural settlement they had founded in a remote part of northern Guyana....
A Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World
Celan’s influence is tricky to absorb for any poet who did not suffer in a labor camp or witness his parents taken away to be murdered by the S.S....