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Moving Through It with Athleta

Our bodies usually know the way forward. But how do you listen before you move?

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Moving Through It with Athleta

Our bodies usually know the way forward. But how do you listen before you move?

BY BYLINE EDITORS

Pursuing Perfection with Painter Tallulah Dirnfeld

The artist paints girlhood as something polished, strange, and quietly feral.

By Elisa Kalani

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Pursuing Perfection with Painter Tallulah Dirnfeld

The artist paints girlhood as something polished, strange, and quietly feral.

BY ELISA KALANI

One Minute Read

200 Words with Amanda Burkett

The best invite of all is one from a friend.

By Amanda Burkett

Etienne Francey captures the return of spring through flowers transformed by light, color, and motion.

New Spring

BY ETIENNE FRANCEY

EssaysOut of Body

Sext Education

A decade of sexting became a study in intimacy, performance, and control.

Internet BrainOut of Body

The Longer Way (to Hear Yourself)

AI gave me answers quickly, until I started to miss the sound of my own judgment.

BY EMILY MANGES

CultureHow Did You Do It?

For the Love of Life: Inside Spread the Jelly’s Motherhood Archive

Co-founders Amrit Tietz and Lauren Levinger built an archive that bridges the past and future of what motherhood means to them.

I Told Gloria Steinem About My Abortion

“I never thought I would have the chance to feel seen by the woman who helped give us the right to choose.”

An Art Fair the Size of a City

At CONDO, there's no convention center, no booths, no badges. Just a city full of galleries opening their doors.

Notes on emojis: our culture’s contemporary hieroglyphics.

Internet Brain200 Words

200 Words with Owen Lang

BY OWEN LANG

Tessa Gourin's New Book ‘Concrete Catwalk’ Immortalizes New York Style

Published by Mike Brewer's imprint, Canned Planet, Concrete Catwalk captures the irreplicable looks of Manhattan's streets.

BY AMANDA CHEMECHE

Let Ray Bull Change Your Life

On their new album Please Stop Laughing, NYC indie pop artists find their footing.

Artist Katy Brett is Baring her Bones

Working with intuition and an eye for unexpected materials, Brett forages found items to create collections of treasures.

BY BILLIE MURABEN

Fifi Will See You on the Dance Floor

We get down with Fifi, AKA Sophia Ziskin, as she spills the details behind her new single, “Ima go down.”

Making Peace with Renewal

A story on moving through fear in Californian vignettes—on the road, by the water, at home—until the fear itself is finally forgiven.

BY GRACE DOUGHERTY

What Oscar Boyson's Film ‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ Did for All-American Digital Boyhood

A movie that explores lonliness, pokes fun at the homoeroticism latent within hypermasculine subcultures, highlights the weight of our constant proximity to gun violence, and finds comedy in the perversions that grow from misplaced human emotion.

BY SALOME SOL PEREZ

In ‘Jean’, Love Rarely Lands Where It Should

Madeleine Dunnigan’s debut novel is as much about the scrim as it is the character-based light shining through it.

BY MAYA KOTOMORI

Internet BrainAsk Lisa

What Do Parasocial Relationships Say About Your Psychology?

This week, Lisa—a licensed therapist with an MA and MFT—offers insight into what lies behind parasocial relationships and how to look underneath the hood of what makes a person more likely to have them.

BY LISA PEPPER-SATKIN

A week-long trip to Egypt turned into a months-long sabbatical, a much-needed escape, and a salve for grief.

Me, Croissant, and Egypt

BY BEN JENKINS

Spring Shopping for Getting It Together

A practical guide to making things feel a little more livable again.

BY GUTES GUTERMAN AND BYLINE EDITORS

Grace Ives is Somebody's Girlfriend

With her third album Girlfriend, Grace Ives reckons with shame, identity, and the possibility of actually feeling okay.

BY JOHANNA SOMMER

CultureHow Did You Do It?

How Charlie Rinehart-Jones Wrote a Play After Work

Starting without permission. Stealing from real conversations. Here’s how debut playwright and director Charlie Rinehart-Jones made LIFESTYLES.

Tanya Bush Wants You to Feel Something

The Cake Zine co-founder on her new cookbook Will This Make You Happy and and a life that resists neat answers.

BY RAFAELA BASSILI

I Used to Dream of Fashion Week

Fashion shows once represented the utmost center and most aspirational parts of the industry. I still hold onto the version I first loved.

For decades, society centered men as the foundational ingredient for safety, security, and child-rearing. It might have been a patriarchal illusion.

Did Men Ruin Motherhood?

BY SARAH NOACK

Internet BrainAsk Lisa

Money Wisdom For the City-Living and Down Bad

This week, Lisa—a licensed therapist with an MA and MFT—offers a mantra for your money issues.

BY LISA PEPPER-SATKIN

Culture200 Words

200 Words with Amanda Burkett

The best invite of all is one from a friend.

BY AMANDA BURKETT

Poolside at Felix Art Fair

Inside the Hollywood Roosevelt, the art world ditches convention centers for hotel rooms and cabanas.

BY BYLINE EDITORS

The Risks We Take on Shrooms

There are thousands of people who made big life decisions based on realizations they had on psychadelics. And none of them seem to regret it.

BY LAURA O'CONNOR

In anticipation of his upcoming album Simpleton, Yot Club’s Ryan Kaiser opens up about projection, suburban mythologies, and finding clarity after going viral.

Yot Club Keeps it Simple

Not all brand dinners are created equal. Last week, Grand Collection took over Veselka to celebrate their Spring '26 collection—but it was mostly just a good time for good people.

The Grand Family Dinner

BY CHARLIE Q. KOLBRENER

The Beautiful and the Inconvenient

Once upon a time, we dried our linens on clotheslines. Hang drying is just one example of many disappearing romantic yet banal tasks—one that mostly exists outside of America today.

BY PETER MOLESWORTH

My father immigrated to America from the Philippines exactly 50 years ago. His life's work proves that immigrants are essential, especially in my home state of Texas. So why did I still struggle to feel at home?

Garlic Girl

BY FLANNERY BALTAZAR

I Went to the Elena Velez Show Despite Everyone's Warnings

It was bad, but I had fun.

The Death of the Party Girl

Going sober meant leaving my vices and old self behind. It also meant finding the girl I was before—the one I yearned for all along.

BY GRACE BRASWELL

New York Fashion Week with a Side of Day Job

Come with me to play designer by day and fashion week attender by night (and sometimes day, too).

BY MADELINE MONTOYA

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Welcome to Buyline

Our new shopping column.

BY BYLINE EDITORS

CultureHow Did You Do It?

Madeline Cash on Writing ‘Lost Lambs’

The author on her writing routine, her day job, and how she approaches writer's block.

200 Words with Shaad D'Souza

Culture200 Words

Processed foods, GLP-1s, and being punishingly beautiful.

BY SHAAD D’SOUZA

Broadway’s ‘Liberation’ Is A Salve For Female Rage

Playwright Bess Wohl tells the story of who her mother was before her time.

Remember Summer? Hereʼs a Refresher.

The promise and possibility of a warmer season feel dreadfully foreign in freezing temps. But it's still within reach.

BY KOSTA KARAKASHYAN

The stick doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Stickbashing

BY COLDHEALING

The Precariousness of Girlhood and Eternal Union

Miss Cheff if you’re nasty. The internet’s sultry, smart enigma and author of Tart is making a name for herself.

That’s Slutty To You

As his aging father unveils an erotic pivot in his legendary art career, a struggling young painter makes some lifestyle changes of his own.

Reducing

BY LEO LASDUN

“What’s In My Bag” is the New Still Life

The handbag as a portal into recognition, a mirror of modern identity.

BY SARA R. RADIN

Molly Baz Wants To Write About America’s Best Diners

In the meantime, she's working on her third cookbook. We caught up with her to find out what's next from the New York Times bestselling author.

Perusing the Menu of American Culture with Biz Sherbert

Byline sits down with the writer, podcaster, and fashion critical theorist to discuss her new Substack American Style, the contemporary culture complex, and a mutual reverence for style.

BY MAYA KOTOMORI

Anwar Hadid Prepares for Flight

The burgeoning musician and designer discusses his official foray into fashion, new band, and off-the-grid mentality.

BY HARRY HILL

Culture5 Buys

Must Love Basics with Dione Davis

The stylist shares her five musts when it comes to dressing up, down, and everything in between.

BY DIONE DAVIS

Internet Brain

Am I Too Horny or Too Online?

On finding fantasy in the flesh and in a world of gooning, Grindr, and going out.

BY LUKE FRANCIS AUSTIN

Lori Anne was her father’s daughter for one strange, perfect week in Paris.

A Perfect Age

BY ALEC GEWIRTZ

Where want meets need, small pleasures become acts of dignity, memory, and connection in dying.

The Cost of Pleasure

BY LEAH RAE HULGIN

Aminatou Sou Sees You, Too

Through friendship, introspection, and a refusal to perform certainty, the writer and cultural observer explores what it means to look closer, at ourselves, at each other, and the lives we’re building together.

How Does That Feel In Your Body?

Confronting my climate anxiety opened my eyes to the radical possibilities of the future.

BY ARABELLA BRECK

In Defense of Thinking Small

Not everything has to be grand. In fact, it shouldn’t be.

My Return to an Unfinished Dream

BY TANYA TRABOULSI

When the art critic and author looks to the future, he sees a world where criticism is alive and well. He spent the last three decades mastering the skill of seeing, digesting, and critiquing—and won a Pulitzer Prize along the way. If there’s one man who can play a role in saving the art of honest writing, it’s Jerry Saltz.

Jerry Saltz Has Visions

The Untold Story of Black Cowboys

Hall of Famer Harold Cash and Charlie Sampson share the rich history of Black cowboys, their overlooked legacy, and their journey in rodeo.

BY JASMINE DESIREE

On The RiseWriters On Writers

Seeking Pleasure with Camille Sojit Pejcha

Sex writer Camille Sojit Pejcha has made a career out of writing what others keep quiet—now she’s turning her audience into a community.

BY ALESSANDRA SCHADE

I'm Losing Interest In The Chase

What happens when your reasons for running toward figurative finish lines are no longer relevant?

The Truth According To Tommy Dorfman

Ahead of her memoir, Maybe This Will Save Me, the actress and writer reflects on vulnerability and why honesty remains her most powerful tool.

BY TOMMY DORFMAN

Chi Ossé Says The City Needs You

The New York City Council member and activist is going to bat for the culture of this town—but he can’t do it alone.

BY CHI OSSÉ

From GQ Design Director To Free Agent

Why stepping off the clouted career merry-go-round was an essential risk to take.

BY ROB VARGAS

Life!

A Love Letter To Palestinian Women

Amidst an ongoing genocide, I’m looking to the Palestinian women in my life for the strength to keep going.

BY SAMAA KHULLAR

Gambles

In Defense Of The Drunk Text

Go ahead and send it. You might learn something you didn't already know.

BY KELBY MACKENZIE

Weighing The OddsSubway Surf Report

Meet Robert, the W Train Operator And Aspiring Actor

What’s wrong with being rich and famous? Robert Fetik talks risk, ridiculousness, and railways.

On The RiseThe Young and The Restless

James Veloria Is The Serious Vintage Hub For Unserious People

Co-owners Collin James and Brandon Veloria talk sourcing, Opening Ceremony, Christopher Nemeth blazers, and their best client stories.

BY SAM FALB

CultureCaught Red-Handed

Myha'la Herrold is Caught Red-Handed

The 'Industry' star on show tunes, doom scrolling, and her comfort watch.

BY EMMA SHARPE

Momma’s Music Is Medicinal

The Brooklyn-based band on growing up together, their upcoming tour, and the realities of making it in music.

YHWH Nailgun Plays The Long Game

The rising punk band has played festivals across the globe, signed to WME, and received the TIDAL Rising grant. In short, they're destined for big things. But what matters for them is the journey, not the destination.

BY ZANS BRADY KROHN

Weighing The Odds

Sustainability Doesn’t Exist Under Colonialism

Céline Semaan, the author and founder of Slow Factory and Everything is Political, expands on an existential truth: preserving our planet won't work in a world that values wealth and power overall. Living in balance with the Earth will demand a cultural shift.

BY CÉLINE SEMAAN

Gambles

How I Killed Liam Payne

Before the artist's death, a podcast episode predicted it. The internet's self-proclaimed jury set forth a false murder charge. A story of cancellation and online trauma unfolds.

BY BRITTANY DEITCH

In the Rockaways, the winter doesn’t stop this all-girls group from surfing year round. Especially when there’s something to gain beyond the water.

The Spirit Of Surf

BY AEMILIA MADDEN

A Case For Surrendering To The Love Of Your Friends

As a recovering people-pleaser, learning to state my needs and parting ways with an agreeable facade is my most treacherous feat yet.

BY PEYTON DIX

For Recho Omondi, Knowledge Has Always Been Power

The host of The Cutting Room Floor is releasing season six of her show on April 2nd. The new batch of conversations with fashion's most educated set is more honest than ever.

What Womanhood Feels Like In Japan

Life!

A critical look inside the oppression Japanese women endure today. And how questionable gender roles and laws are instilled in our daily lives.

BY MEGUMI KOIWAI

Wet’s Kelly Zutrau On Risk Now And Then

The artist reflects on the biggest leaps she’s taken, one of them being motherhood, ahead of the release of her forthcoming album, Two Lives.

BY KELLY ZUTRAU

Gambles

The Perilous Act Of Writing About Someone Who’s Going To Read It

What happens when the man you love starts reading between the lines?

BY ANTONIA BENTEL

How Katarina Zhu Made The Year's Most Haunting Indie

The filmmaker behind Bunnylovr on making a debut feature that’s quiet, personal, and powerfully dissociated.

BY LILY LADY

A Velvet Voice Covers A Living Legend

Musician Loren Kramar releases Living Legend, a soulful, stripped-down EP of Lana Del Rey covers that honors the intimacy, melancholy, and mystique of a generational icon—while carving out a new kind of devotion.

BY JACK RYAN

A short story about a tour guide in Italy who brings a couple to a holy site each day. Disenchantment ensues.

My Pilgrims

BY DEAN JAMIESON

The Price of Milk, Eggs, and Wellbeing

A story about quitting the corporate world and instead working at a grocery store to cope with grief and find solace.

BY ARABELLA BRECK

Anne Imhof Dares To Reject Tradition

The artist behind DOOM is no stranger to going against the grain. Her latest piece, a reinterpretation of Romeo And Juliet, places bets on unconventional storytelling.

BY ANNE IMHOF

To squash or to endure? That is the question.

Love And Other Bugs

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

And 50 ways to find a new one.

What's the purpose of makeup? How can it change the way one feels about themselves? In an exploratory shoot with men in makeup, we sought answers behind the purpose in play.

HMU

For the Boys

BY MADELINE MONTOYA

Ramisha Sattar On Building A DIY Popstar

As creative director for Chappell Roan, she is quite literally your favorite artist’s favorite artist.

BY GABY GLORIA

New York

Lina Sun Park Weaves A Spell From The Every Day

As an artist drawn to life's small details, Lina Sun Park creates delicate, dreamlike worlds. Her exhibition at Ace Hotel Brooklyn is no exception.

It's Time To Quit Your Therapist

Sometimes, the person meant to help you is the vice you need to drop.

BY DEELIA CAI

The story of a boy I finally never texted back.

Girl, Get Up!!

BY MACKENZIE THOMAS

Catching The Thief Of Joy Red-Handed

How to quit comparison, an age-old habit exacerbated by the digital era.

BY ALANA CLOUD-ROBINSON

The Untold Paradox Of A Nose Job

Since getting a nose job at 18, I've lamented losing what was actually mine.

BY CHARLIE Q. KOLBRENER

Will I Ever Stop Obsessing Over My Skin?

You can’t avoid your skin. But you can learn how to live with it. Sort of.

BY LUCAS OAKELEY