
‘National Anthem’ is a portal into the beauty of queer rural America
Named after his earlier monograph, the debut feature film by photographer Luke Gilford brings the rodeo stars of his book to the big screen

Lauren Elkin’s ‘Art Monsters’ thrives in the messy
The author’s latest book profiles the great and grimy women of the last century

‘The Future Future’ is obsessed with words and their failures
Novelist Adam Thirwell joins Document to explain why 18th-century print culture and 21st-century social media discourse aren’t so different

Vagabon, in her own words
She was shouldered with the burden of saving indie rock—but Laetitia Tamko's 'Sorry I Haven't Called' carves its own ambitious path

Genesis according to Lauren Groff
Upon the release of ‘The Vaster Wilds,’ the author talks archival interventions, iambic pentameter, and historical fiction’s bad reputation

Excavating the missing girl—or, at least, the idea of her
‘Brutes’ and ‘All-Night Pharmacy’ destroy the canonical bad girl, allowing for pure(r) heroines to emerge

Sunny War is Americana’s brightest star and biggest skeptic
The Nashville-born musician’s ‘Anarchist Gospel’ is a volume of hymns for late capitalist life, taking cues across genres and generations

The unpredictable, genre-less magic of Cooler Nights
Through CARA’s summer series, five Monday evenings become a sonic playground for eclectic performers

Instructions for living from Inès Longevial’s bookshelf
From Colette to Camus, the French painter shares her favorite reads for finding inspiration in the quotidian

Sally Potter talks time travel and other mysteries
The 73-year-old filmmaker (once again) proves her artistic dexterity with an autobiographical debut album, ‘Pink Bikini’

The rebirth of the long-maligned tramp stamp
Tattoo artists muse on the placement’s cultural resurgence—an exercise in aesthetic time travel, particularly beloved by queer youth

Would you dox a bad date?
A tug-of-war between a Facebook group for women daters and an army of (allegedly) lawyered-up r/MensRights users poses questions about “good” internet behavior

Samantha Joy Groff’s required reading for a ‘Pennsyltucky’ girlhood
From a hauntingly prescient bildungsroman to a sardonic story of working-class life, the emerging painter offers Document tales of family, survival, and longing

Detroit’s Movement Festival, through the lens of UNIIQU3
The DJ shares photographs from her world (domination) tour, spreading the gospel of Jersey club in the birthplace of techno

On the heels of the solstice, Hermès offers a skin-first introduction to the season
For Spring/Summer 2024 Men’s, Véronique Nichanian infuses the house’s equestrian heritage with nautical overtones

May Rio’s booklist for reinventing the damsel in distress
Following the release of her sophomore album ‘French Bath,’ the musician compiles incisive texts by modern female authors

JW Anderson distorts domesticity for Spring/Summer 2024
The designer’s latest menswear collection riffs on tradition and reimagines knitwear, drawing humor and beauty from the mundane

‘Castro to Christopher’ documents bygone queer utopias
Nicholas Blair’s debut photography book offers a vision of Pride on the cusp of AIDS, from the streets of San Francisco and New York

Carlos Idun-Tawiah recasts his boyhood
The photographer’s ‘Sunday Special’ series blurs memory with fiction in staged recollections along the coast of Ghana
