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The college superstar, whose new NFL contract guarantees him more money than any running back not named Saquon Barkley, is prepared to do whatever it takes to help revive the Raiders—and he’s very, very confident he’s going to pull it off: “I won’t say I’m a hero, but I can’t let people see weakness in me.”

He survived a badly broken home in the most isolated city in the world to become the rock-star mastermind of Tame Impala. He has a wife and a growing family. He’s even become a hook whisperer for Rihanna, Dua Lipa, and Lady Gaga. But he’s still an awkward teenage loser at heart—and it might be the secret of his success.

While other ’90s idols raked in blockbuster paychecks, the actor took an unexpected road: writing novels, staging plays and making low-budget indie flicks with director Richard Linklater. Now, with cinema culture firmly in its Letterboxd era and Hawke generating awards chatter once again, he’s showing a new generation the benefits of staying the course.

Three years after pulling off a trick that made him a living legend—a death-defying kickflip over a Harlem subway-platform gap—the skater and Louis Vuitton ambassador keeps making the unprecedented look easy.

In New York—and much of the country—COVID was a near extinction event for restaurants. But out of the ashes, an entirely fresh crop of new dining experiences has reasserted Manhattan as a place you have to be—and eat.

In Lena Dunham’s buzzy new Netflix series, the actor spins the love interest into something much more idiosyncratic—emotional baggage and all.

In a world-historical moment rife with villainy and loose scruples, James Gunn has staked his reboot of the DC Comics Universe on a Superman with core values, a sunny disposition, and a weakness for romance. Says Corenswet, who has to make it all work: “A role like Superman seems like something that everybody would want, and that’s not true.”

The Gilded Age actor is back as robber baron George Russell (affectionately known as “Railroad Daddy” to his fans). Ahead of the HBO period drama’s thrilling third season, we hung out with Spector on the Upper East Side to talk subversive masculinity, being a wife guy, and suddenly becoming famous in his 40s.

Five years ago, she walked away from her record deal and bet on herself as an actress. Now she’s dropping a wild new visual album, Escape Room—and starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly anticipated One Battle After Another.

With their fourth album, I Quit, Alana, Danielle, and Este Haim expunge negative feelings about shitty exes, bad dates, and a rock music community that refuses to acknowledge them. Now, as Alana puts it during a hang in the Valley, “it’s time to party.”

After more than fifteen years apart, the brothers Thornton, better known as Malice and Pusha T, are back together, with a new Pharrell Williams-produced album that ranks with their most potent product ever—and they’re ready to go on record about Kanye, Drake, and the state of the game.

In making the zombie show’s most harrowing scene yet, Kaitlyn Dever’s life and work collided devastatingly. But in the end it helped her process the worst period of her life.

After shaking off the ghost of Don Draper by playing a parade of bad guys, goofball guest stars, and even Tom Cruise’s boss, the 53-year-old actor said yes to Your Friends & Neighbors, his first TV-series lead in a decade—and found out people still want to watch Jon Hamm play a morally complex rich guy with a secret.

As the wildly popular social satire comes to an end, its breakout star discusses that climactic shootout and why making the show was “a steady disintegration” of her sanity.

He became one of the worlds’ biggest musicians after winning Eurovision with Måneskin—and now the Italian singer has his sights on a global solo career. Over espresso and cigarettes in Rome, Damiano David argues that pop music desperately needs a high-fashion frontman.

The shortstop and devoted family man has the opportunity to cement his legacy (alongside the most thrilling Mets lineup in recent memory), and the hopes and dreams of every Mets fan riding on him. GQ visited Lindor in Florida to learn how he became the team’s savior—and how, despite the astronomical stakes, he stays so chill.