Lifestyle

What Does Your Favorite Horror Movie Smell Like? It’s This Guy’s Job to Decide
When Killian Wells was a kid living in New York, he’d race home from school and press play on the VHS tape he loved most: Halloween. Michael Myers, the...
Inside the Final Days of America’s Last Selvedge Denim Factory
For anyone who’s serious about selvedge denim, the name White Oak carries a lot of weight. Founded in 1905 by Cone Mills—the primary denim supplier to Levi’s, Wrangler, Lee,...
Ari Aster’s New Nightmare: What If It Was May 2020 Again?
Eddington depicts something I’m not sure I’ve ever seen before in a motion picture, and almost certainly not in one that’s opening this weekend on over a thousand movie...
I Bought an 18-Pound Mystery Box of Watches From Goodwill—Here’s What Was Inside
Here’s how the Goodwill auction site works. You place a maximum bid, but the site will only go $1 over the existing top bid. So if my maximum bid...
The Best Waterproof Eyeliners Stay Put in Summer Heat
Whether you’re braving a humid day, shedding a tear, or just hoping your eye makeup look stays put all day (and night), the best waterproof eyeliner is your ultimate...
The Best Fashion Moments from WNBA All-Star Weekend 2025
The WNBA All-Star Weekend kicked off in Indianapolis last night with a starry, MVP-in-sport-and-style-worthy orange carpet, preceding the next few days of buzzy events that will see the biggest...

World

The Trophy Abs and Soul Ties of “Love Island USA”
One good way to enjoy the latest season of “Love Island USA”—the seventh, in which new episodes aired on Peacock almost every day for six weeks and just wrapped...
“Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire
“Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are....
The Sophisticated Kitsch of Blackpink
The London-based Nigerian singer Obongjayar has been steadily drifting toward his distinct sound. Initially discovered by XL Recordings head Richard Russell for a freestyle over the Kendrick Lamar song...
Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith
Delaney’s style or, more accurately, styles, developed in the course of a long apprenticeship that can read like a novelization of the desperate life of an artist—van Gogh as...
“Double Time for Pat Hobby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here.“Double Time for Pat Hobby” was...
“Cloud” Is a Cautionary Tale of E-Commerce—and the Summer’s Best Action Movie
Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), the thirtysomething protagonist of the mesmerizing Japanese thriller “Cloud,” is never more content than when he’s in front of his computer. Some will surely relate,...