In an era of television filler, ‘The Bear’ demands a return to close watching
How the show’s grimy, messy realism stakes its claim as the front runner of 30-minute dramas
A genesis of trad cath celebrity shoe collaborations
From Lil Nas X ‘Satan Shoes’ to Addison Rae’s Holy Trinity bikini, today’s post-ironic apparel is designed to provoke. But who’s taking the bait?
Amazon is reading palms at Whole Foods
Biometric payment technology is a slippery slope to becoming one with our digital footprints, raising concerns about data privacy and customer surveillance
The parasocial relationships—and real-life impact—of maintaining ‘media diaries’ in the streaming age
In the era of Spotify Wrapped, media consumption is a source of community. But does broadcasting the content we consume change our taste?
Tom Sturridge strips down in ‘The Sandman’—and adds some layers of his own
The actor joins Document to discuss his starring role in the long-awaited adaptation, seeking advice from Neil Gaiman, and his own lucid dreams
In ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies,’ Chase Sui Wonders isn’t just screaming—she’s behaving badly
For Document, the actor talks scream queens, trauma bonding, and the particularities of Gen Z horror
Monkeypox reveals the cultural capital of beauty in a chronically-online culture
Anxieties surrounding the virus’s physical manifestations display society's aesthetic obsessions
‘Surface’ is more psychological than it is thriller
The show’s star Gugu Mbatha-Raw joins Document to discuss the nuances of her character, the evolution of mystery, and a mass grappling with identity
Anna Delvey wants to be the new face of prison reform
The faux heiress on her newfound interest in political advocacy, the death of American entrepreneurship, and going from con artist to fine artist
For a story about stereotypes, B.J. Novak’s ‘Vengeance’ has some blind spots of its own
The film’s exploration of regional tensions effectively erase actual class dynamics—race, gender, religion, and most other major political fault-lines
The Peruvian street performers finding cracks in Lima’s conservatism
Photographer Diego Bendezu captures las tetonas, the men using laughter as a tool for survival—and breaking cultural boundaries as they do it
The intimacy of nightlife, according to its curators
Chapel Bar’s Desta and the iconic model Liya Kebede on how to create a roaring room
‘Kimi’ doesn’t belong on the big screen—but neither do most stories
Steven Soderbergh’s latest thriller will never dominate the cultural conversation, but does that mean it isn’t good?
Riane Eisler and Tao Lin on shifting our cultural paradigm
The two authors meet to discuss the role of law, the allure of prehistory, and how to adopt new modes of thinking
Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking
In the second edition of their monthly column for Document, author, activist and porn star Liara Roux answers readers’ steamiest questions
New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation
For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it
Britt Lloyd meditates on masculinity and biophilic utopias
The photographer and filmmaker joins Document to reflect on the parallels between male beauty and the colossal shapes of nature
Jordan Castro’s ‘The Novelist’ is a metafictional exploration of mundanity
The author joins Document to discuss his debut novel, the bizarre and incoherent actions of man, and merging the highbrow with the lowbrow
Sean Pablo’s ‘A Season in Hell’ finds stillness in life’s fleeting moments
In the first exhibition from the pro skater, musician and artist, Pablo transports us into his childhood home for a multimedia viewing experience
Jimmy DeSana, an iconoclast even within the ’70s avant-garde, is finally entering mainstream consciousness
Laurie Simmons and Drew Sawyer discuss the late artist’s AIDS-era collages in a portfolio for Document’s tenth anniversary
‘The Twins’ is a love letter to Mary-Kate and Ashley, told through the textures of the archive
Zara Meerza’s short film refashions the celebrity documentary, using personal recollection to make sense of collective obsession
Viagra Boys descend into man’s rawest form—and the rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracies
On ‘Cave World,’ the Swedish band holds a mirror to American paranoia with snarky, socially cognizant lyrics and stupidly simple guitars
Michele Saunders recounts a summer with James Baldwin in the South of France
The downtown icon divulges the details of her accidental getaway with a literary legend
On ‘Janky Star,’ Grace Ives is making pop without persona
The Brooklyn-based musician joins Document to discuss the making of her latest album and the role of self-acceptance in artistic evolution
Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the writer merges personal, political, and geological histories to document a city in flux
Searching for queer sanctuary in Porto
Photographer Mallory Bea navigates a small queer community along Portugal’s coast
Francisco Costa looks to the earth to nourish the body
Following the launch of AROMA, the founder of Costa Brazil joins Document to discuss the line's ethos and his creative practice
Inside ‘My Comrade,’ a time capsule of NYC’s legendary drag scene
Nightlife personality Linda Simpson joins Document to discuss the magazine that captured New York’s queer fringe in the ’80s and ’90s—and its triumphant return
Document celebrated ten years at The Broken Arm with a collection images from the archive selected by Raf Simons
Images by Wolfgang Tillmans, Lucio Fontana, Anne Collier, and Willy Vanderperre were displayed at the intimate cocktail during Paris Men’s Fashion Week
Unified’s designs foreground versatility and collectability
Michael Colovos joins Document to discuss the eternal power of denim, and the making of Unified’s zine for Document’s tenth anniversary issue
Roe v. Wade is overturned, undoing centuries of cultural progress
Not only does today’s Supreme Court decision mark a major regression in social progress, it carves a path for further institutional backslides
In ‘Bad Thoughts,’ Nada Alic imagines a world for women who are aspirational for all the wrong reasons
In a series of short films debuting exclusively for Document, the author offers cinematic interpretations of scenes from her upcoming novel
‘Spiderhead’ shows us what cinema gets wrong about the prison of the mind
In sci-fi, the metaphor of prison can convey complex truths. But does it encourage empathy for actual prisoners?
Frédéric Lagrange finds faith in faces
For Document’s tenth anniversary, the photographer presents the most memorable moments of his career in a series of portraits
The life and death of Blackhaine
On his latest EP, ‘Armour II,’ Tom Heyes’s poetic dexterity drives a narrative ridden with guilt and paranoia
NFT television is the latest attempt to manufacture token utility
The failure of Seth Green’s ‘White Horse Tavern,’ starring a Bored Ape NFT, exemplified the risks of pairing investment with media creation
The art of cruising in the post-digital age
From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city
A war vocabulary: Displaced Ukrainians share fragmented stories of loss, trauma, and absurdity
“In a time of war, beauty becomes dangerous. Beautiful things, people, relationships—nowadays they don’t exist to inspire. They exist to be annihilated.”
The new coming of age, according to Ever Anderson and Diana Silvers
The actors meet to investigate the next generation of teenage cinema
Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh
From Greenpoint to Flatbush, McKenzie Wark outlines community on the margins of straight life
Ocean Vuong and Edmund White explore the experiential modes of queer writing
The authors muse on Wallace Stevens, American boyhood, and abandoning the present for the sake of fiction
Ashton Sanders and Kimberly Drew on the inextricable link between art and chaos
The ‘Moonlight’ actor divulges his plans to build an empire of his own
A beginner’s guide to Sidney Poitier, America’s first Black matinee star
The late pioneer’s work made history, paving the way for a new generation of Black cinema
Document Journal launches Summer/Pre-Fall 2022: A Coney Island of the Mind
For Hyd, music is a vessel for material transformation
From geothermal mud fields to Death Valley, the artist explores the energetic properties of the earth in three new music videos premiering exclusively for Document
BASEMENT’s GeGa Japaridze and Téa Abashidze merge techno’s cutting edge with community engagement
The pair join Knockdown Center’s Tyler Myers to discuss the makings of Wire Festival, a two-night event that reimagines the future of entertainment and activism
In the Cayman Islands, the Batabano Festival brings creative communities together
The Palm Heights hotel united artists across the Caribbean diaspora, redefining luxury in the process
Kevin Morby makes friends with the dead on ‘This Is A Photograph’
The artist embarked on a ghoulish tour of artists who have passed, emerging with his most thoughtful album to date
At Freshii, your ‘virtual cashier’ is actually a person working for $3.75 per hour
Public debate around a Canadian franchise’s experiment raises questions about automation, labor laws, and the ignorance of the Western consumer
