Lore Segal wrote the Great American Novel you never read (and should)
The author of 'Her First American' reflects on her incredible lifetime as a contrarian
Peaches gives sentience to sex toys in her new exhibition, ‘Whose Jizz Is This?’
The iconic performer of ‘Fuck the Pain Away’ marries sex ed, humor, and politics: “I'm not asking everybody to have orgies, I'm just asking people...
From Public Enemy to Cat Power, Document S/S 2019 contributors share the soundtrack to their youth
Takashi Murakami, Tschabalala Self, Matthew Williams, and more tell the stories behind this coming-of-age playlist.
Meet the artist spinning Snapchat stories into an interactive soundscape
Christian Marclay gives Snapchat renewed relevance with his LACMA exhibition.
Sex magic, aliens, and the Rapture: Ron Athey’s books for end times
The avant-garde artist known for his bloody, subversive performances schools us on Genesis P-Orridge, Mother Theresa, and ‘the solar anus.’
Richie Hawtin wants to revive techno’s original, intimate spirit
The legendary DJ captures the artistry of techno with his latest album and companion app.
In Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs of sex in public parks, we’re all voyeurs
The photographer took thrilling, transgressive photos of young couples—and their onlookers—in 1970s Tokyo.
What is an ‘American film’? 6 outsider auteurs who held a mirror to our culture
From Vietnam to mass incarceration, foreign and immigrant-directed films captured American identity better than ‘Forrest Gump.’
Michele Saunders’ old school rules for nightclubbing like it’s ’85
From dance moves to Dexedrine: A Paradise Garage regular's guide to looking (and staying) fresh when your night begins at 4am.
5 tips for mitigating the honey bee crisis—and urban bee keeping is not the answer
The world's top pollinator is under serious threat. Chef Jen Monroe tells us how we can lessen our impact her ethereal, bee-themed dinner.
Marie Tomanova captures the haunting discomfort of being lost in her own homeland
The photographer's new exhibition, 'Like a Dream,' reveals her first trip back to the Czech Republic in eight years.
Paradise Garage’s final nights: crying and dancing at the definitive rager of ’80s NYC
Michele Saunders and Tina Paul share memories and photographs from a weekend-long party where Grace Jones shared the DJ booth with Larry Levan.
Channel Tres’ 38 songs of summer, from Paul McCartney to Childish Gambino
The genre-blending artist merges psychedelia, funk, and indie with house on his new five-track EP, ‘Black Moses,’ out today. He created a playlist for Document...
The Cramps circa ’79: falling in love with punk rock’s most psychotic band
Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong remember the feverish energy of late-’70s Irving Plaza, where they captured Poison Ivy and Lux Interior on the brink of...
Tremaine Emory of No Vacancy Inn on the 5 books that ignited his love of art
The creative powerhouse discusses James Baldwin, Frank Miller's ‘Batman,’ and why the most inspiring books are those you haven't read yet.
Making a murderer iconic? A Charles Manson exhibit reveals the human psyche’s darkest corners
’Once Upon a Time in ’69’ is a fascinating and unsettling commentary on our cultural obsession with violence.
Boycott, divestment, and sadomasochism: the collaboration Eurovision didn’t want you to hear
Following Hatari's controversial performance at Eurovision in Israel, the Icelandic BDSM band joined forces with Palestinian artist Bashar Murad, using music to advocate for Palestinian...
Alice Lefons and David Richardson capture the restless yearning for childhood freedom
Document fashion and market editor Alice Lefons collaborates with David Richardson on this fashion film for Document Online.
Jacolby Satterwhite turned his late mother’s cassette recordings into an EDM album
The Solange collaborator explores love and loss in his debut full-length album 'PAT.'
‘All art is voyeuristic’: Lisa Yuskavage on the joy of provocation
Yuskavage's paintings of nude women and partially clothed girls have raised eyebrows for their perceived carnality. But her subjects never asked you to stare at...
‘The Memory Police’: Yoko Ogawa’s 1994 dystopian fiction gets a timely second life
The surrealist Japanese novel that predicted our current cultural amnesia is now available in English.
10 years of ‘In the Loop’: 5 prophetic moments from the biting satire
When the cabinet is a rotating door and diplomacy is done via Twitter, you can't accuse Armando Iannucci's film of overstating the depths of corruption...
Anna Victoria Best’s ‘Ottilie’ is an immersive exhibition starring one model
The photographer challenges out definition of 'zine' with her latest edition of 'AVB.'
Lolo Zouaï’s tour rider: tea, essential oils, and racing jackets
Document catches up with the emerging singer as she settles in Brooklyn after a 22-city tour.
Capitalism is the internet troll you can’t block—and other lesson’s from Jia Tolentino’s ‘Trick Mirror’
The writer's debut book diagnoses a spectrum of incurable issues millennials face today
Hideki Seo unpacks his fantastical cartoon fashion drawings
The artist and fashion designer, currently featured besides Alexander McQueen in 'A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes', on creating joy in the face of tragedy
From Tyler, the Creator to ’70s soul: Louise Chen on her refreshing summer playlist
The DJ behind the soundtracks for Dior, Chloé, and Gucci will get you on your feet this weekend
The DIY resistance of Hong Kong’s protesters
Traffic cones, oven mitts, and umbrellas: Demonstrators are finding inventive new ways to protect themselves from police aggression.
Inside Arden Surdam’s licentious world of seafood, sex, and status
In ‘Offal | East,’ the artist makes the sophisticated look grotesque, and subverts the Eurocentric history of picnics.
What it was like to get arrested at Danceteria with Keith Haring
Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong on the cocaine-fueled club that defined New York's ’80s nightlife scene.
Moscow’s ‘regulated graffiti’ might be worse than its state-sanctioned rap
Officials attempt to fight counterculture from the inside, censoring street art by killing everything it stands for.
Post-Stonewall, drenched in sunlight: Alvin Baltrop chronicled the sexual frontier of ’70s New York
The Bronx-born photographer never achieved the success of Mapplethorpe or Hujar, but his images from Manhattan's West Side Piers illuminate a forgotten era.
Who is Alice Phoebe Lou? Not your indie dreamgirl
The indefinable singer-songwriter shares a new video with Document, and tells us why she prefers busking on Berlin's streets to performing on-stage.
With Barneys’ bankruptcy, the death knell of physical retailers rings louder
Once the embodiment of aspirational, New York consumerism, the luxury retailer has announced nationwide store closures
Toni Morrison remembered—in the words of Marlon James, Yara Shahidi, and Janet Mock
The giant of American literature has passed away at the age of 88—Here, five cultural figures describe the Morrison novels they'll never forget.
5 extraterrestrial sneakers for storming Area 51 in style
Nike's outer space obsession didn't stop with the Moon Shoe—here are five sneakers inspired by the moon, Mars, and extraterrestrial life.
5 playful, surrealist books Sharna Osborne reaches to for inspiration
The photographer and videographer on the authors that inform her nostalgic VHS aesthetic, from the philosophical to the downright childish.
A world without men: photos from the feminist lesbian utopias of ’80s America
Carmen Winant's ‘Notes on Fundamental Joy’ goes inside the womyn-only communities created across the Pacific Northwest.
Remembering Lucien Bahaj—creator of the French bistro that became NYC’s last cultural salon
Artist Clayton Patterson on the man behind Lucien bistro, where everyone is a superstar.
How did it get this bad? Land activists are dying for our planet
As environmental activists take a last stand against powerful interests, indigenous groups are on the frontline.
How Ricky Rossello seduced Puerto Ricans and lost them
Before #telegramgate, the Rossellós were set to become Puerto Rico's Kennedy clan.
Travel back to the birth of punk with the CBGB regulars who filmed it all
‘You gave up the rights for lawsuits when you came in to CBGB’: lessons from the legendary venue's heyday with Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong.
Ranking the most insane political merch in recent American history
From liberal-trolling straws to Mitch McConnell's cocaine tee, a short history of political crimes against taste.
On the ground in Puerto Rico, with 4 artists on the frontline of revolution
‘We know that it is not over’: Governor Ricardo Rosselló has finally promised to resign, but protestors aren't ready to go home.
The 2020 frontrunner is now New Zealand’s prime minister
Jacinda Ardern, despite not being in the race, has earned coveted endorsements from both Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg.
Post-post-Soviet? Eastern Europe’s young designers are shunning a tired aesthetic
Trading post-Soviet nostalgia for an avant-garde future, young Eastern European is celebrating a multi-faceted cultural heritage—through neon babushka scarves and cabbage-inspired coats.
5 books beloved by the 2020 candidates—none of which are ‘Ulysses’
You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge the Democratic debates by the books the presidential hopefuls can't stop talking about.
In North Korea, contraband mascara is a weapon of resistance
Why black market beauty products from South Korea are a threat to the authoritarian regime.
Diary of a decision: a poet’s honest reflection on abortion
Reproductive rights are under threat around the world—Elizabeth Senja Spackman reminds us of their deeply personal implications, in a handwritten, illustrated account.
