Lifestyle

10 Song of the Summer Contenders
It’s only been summer for less than a week at press time, but some psychos on my timeline were starting up the Song of the Summer dialog as early...
What’s the Best Diet for Longevity?
This story is from Manual, GQ’s flagship newsletter offering useful advice on style, health, and more, four days a week. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.Hacking...
How to Get a Bigger Chest and Improve Your Posture While Doing It
As anyone who’s ever set foot in a gym knows, bench pressing can be very fun. So much so that gym bros are known for prioritizing their chests over...
The Real-Life Diet of Aldis Hodge, Who Worked Out in Tom Cruise’s Trailer Gym
Aldis Hodge knows that an actor’s work extends far beyond their physical form. While audiences might look at him and simply see the 38-year-old playing homicide detective Alex Cross,...
Ryan Murphy’s Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Doesn’t Look Exactly Right. Here’s Why That’s OK
This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it...
Acne Studios Spring 2026 Menswear Collection
We all reach a certain age at which birthdays become as much an occasion to reflect on the past as to feel giddy about the future. This collection, the...

World

“Prince Faggot” Sends Up Kink and Country
On a blue-lit stage, a naked man—blindfolded, trussed, and gagged—hangs like a deer from a pole. Pale and gleaming, he looks like a painting of St. Sebastian, rapturous in...
The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”
Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical attack: the kind that instinctively finds fault with the...
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups and asked to write SAT-style...
Glory and Gore in “Afternoons of Solitude”
You don’t have to like bullfighting to watch “Afternoons of Solitude” with fascination, any more than you have to like crime to enjoy a film noir. Full disclosure: I...
“The Gilded Age” Is a Poor Man’s Period Drama
In the HBO drama “The Gilded Age,” the characters are keenly aware that they live in interesting times. Early in the series, which is set in the eighteen-eighties, an...