Lifestyle

5 Summer Office Fits for Every Workday Scenario
Summers in the office get a bad rap: no one wants to be stuck inside a clammy meeting room, tweaking the umpteenth version of a marketing deck while everyone...
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...
Matt Damon Kills It in The ‘Odyssey. These Are His 5 Other Greatest Roles
Watching Christopher Nolan’s sweeping new epic The Odyssey last week, a weird thought occurred to me. Is Matt Damon actually, well, kind of underrated? I know, I know—at first...
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....

World

Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love
This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The...
How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope
“The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead,...
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...