summer friday

A Casual Date-Night Look That Isn’t Trying Too Hard The perfect amount of cool.

By Lindsay Peoples

Totally Soaked

A week dedicated to summer horniness

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When a Horny Meal Goes Wrong
By Madeleine Aggeler
It’s Always Horny Week If You Wear This T-Shirt
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Here’s the Horniest Song of Summer
By Allison P. Davis
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pretty simple
How to Get Perfect Eyebrows Tips from Meghan Markle’s makeup artist, Daniel Martin.
By Kathleen Hou
they seem cool
The Designer Creating Clothes by and for Trans People Meet Gogo Graham.
By Diana Tsui and Sarah Spellings
sex work
By Cameron Evans
11 Strippers on Being Criminalized for Doing Their Jobs “It’s entertainers and clubs who are penalized under these laws, not the (often male) customers who seek out these experiences.” 

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your mileage may vary
This Relationship Tip Is Extra Helpful When You’re Stressed It’s what I use to stop myself from starting silly fights.
By Cari Romm
gone sale-ing
The 12 Best Beauty Picks From Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale Le Labo, Diptyque, and more.
By Kathleen Hou and Erica Smith
movies
Eighth Grade’s #MeToo Scene Will Shake You to Your Core Bo Burnham’s remarkable film shows how an unwanted sexual encounter can turn life into a horror film.
By Anna Silman

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Style

parties!
The Best-est Party Looks of the Week One awe-inspiring look from every fête that mattered.
By Aubri Juhasz
gone sale-ing
25 Deals From Nordstrom’s Huge Anniversary Sale The best way to start the weekend.
By Indya Brown
how to stay cool
By Kelly Conaboy
Refrigerate Your Moisturizers A refreshing treat. 
space of the week
A Former Brewery Gets Transformed Into a Magnificent Home Architect and designer Jeffery Povero transformed the good bones of a gracious loft into a welcoming space for a couple with two young children.
By Wendy Goodman
2018 espys
The 10 Hottest Red Carpet Looks From the 2018 ESPY Awards Featuring Chloe Kim, Ciara, and Danica Patrick.
By Amanda Arnold

The Shopper

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ahead of the curve
The Street-Style Account Where Size Doesn’t Matter Street style the way it should be.
By Lindsay Peoples
tastemakers
This Young Designer Will Make You Want to Go Antiquing Emily Adams Bode shares her favorite things, new and old.
By Emilia Petrarca
the beauty of it all
Ulta’s Tara Simon Thinks Perfect Skin Is the New Luxury Talking to the store’s senior vice-president of prestige marketing.
By Jane Larkworthy

Power

movies
Eighth Grade’s #MeToo Scene Will Shake You to Your Core Bo Burnham’s remarkable film shows how an unwanted sexual encounter can turn life into a horror film.
By Anna Silman
sex work
11 Strippers on Being Criminalized for Doing Their Jobs
By Cameron Evans
metoo
By Katy Schneider
When Men Decide It’s Time to Say Sorry What to do with the spontaneous apologies that have followed in the wake of #MeToo? 
ask a boss
‘Should I Use a Job Offer to Get a Raise at My Current Job?’
By Alison Green
profile
Amber Tamblyn Is Advocating for Women, and Herself She’s lactating on late-night TV, teaching feminism to David Cross and Quentin Tarantino, and attacking rape culture in her debut novel.
By Lisa Miller
my two cents
How to Take Maternity Leave When You’re a Freelancer
By Charlotte Cowles
how i get it done
Rukmini Callimachi initially thought she’d be a poet. Now, she’s a foreign correspondent at the New York Times and a terrorism expert. Her latest project at the Times is Caliphate, a fascinating podcast that seeks to help us understand ISIS. Callimachi lives in the New York area with her husband. Here, how she gets it done.

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Self

ask polly
‘Who Am I Without My Anger?’ It takes a long time to learn how to feel your emotions without identifying criminals.
By Heather Havrilesky
sex diaries
The Yogi Ending an Affair and Exploring Threesome Apps This week’s sex diary.
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science of us
By Adam Sternbergh
Middle Children Are Going Extinct, Just As We Need Them Most They’re empaths, peacemakers, negotiators — and an endangered species. 
your mileage may vary
This Relationship Tip Is Extra Helpful When You’re Stressed
By Cari Romm
it's complicated
Setting Digital Boundaries in an Open Relationship It didn’t bother me that my boyfriend was spending the night with someone else – until I saw it unfold online.
By Shelby Lorman
motherhood
When Writers Become Mothers
By Laura June
scent memories
David Gandy, is a model, the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s original Light Blue fragrance, and the host of D&G’s Light Blue Italian Zest fragrance launch party. The new scent is a summery citrus one that’s reminiscent of Capri with notes of lemon, apple, white rose, and musk. The Cut spoke with Gandy about the smell of cheese puffs, and burnt hair. 
astrology
Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of July 16 Cancer season is coming to a close. How will you welcome the sun in Leo?
By Claire Comstock-Gay
my two cents
How to Take Maternity Leave When You’re a Freelancer It can feel like uncharted territory when you’re your own boss.
By Charlotte Cowles

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Culture

profiles
Ottessa Moshfegh Plays to Win The workaholic reinventing slacker fiction.
By Kaitlin Phillips
profiles
The Reign of King Princess Just months into her young career, the “1950” singer is queering pop.
By Katie Heaney
totally soaked
By Allison P. Davis
Here’s the Horniest Song of Summer It immediately communicates “I want to bang.” 
fixations
I Think About This a Lot: Horny Week Edition
By Gabriella Paiella
behind the scenes
The Pro-Life ‘Roe v. Wade’ Movie Sounds Like a Total Mess The film features scenes with “buckets of baby fetuses” and cameos by Tomi Lahren and Milo Yiannopolous.
By Anna Silman
you know what i heard
Is Justin Bieber Breaking Up With Hillsong?
By Allie Jones
parties!
The Best-est Party Looks of the Week One awe-inspiring look from every fête that mattered.
By Aubri Juhasz
movies
Eighth Grade’s #MeToo Scene Will Shake You to Your Core Bo Burnham’s remarkable film shows how an unwanted sexual encounter can turn life into a horror film.
By Anna Silman
2018 espys
The 10 Hottest Red Carpet Looks From the 2018 ESPY Awards Featuring Chloe Kim, Ciara, and Danica Patrick.
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7/3/2018
Marisa Tomei Knows What’s She’s Worth A frank conversation on money, beauty, and sticking with work you love.
By Stella Bugbee
6/29/2018
Summer of Rage White men are the minority in the United States — no wonder they get uncomfortable when their power is challenged.
By Rebecca Traister
6/7/2018
Meet Jorja Smith: The Soul Singer Who Turned Down Drake “Maybe I am a bit of a siren.”
By Allison P. Davis
6/4/2018
Time’s Up, Bill Is Bill Clinton the only one who doesn’t realize he needs to join the #MeToo reckoning?
By Rebecca Traister
5/28/2018
How an Aspiring ‘It’ Girl Tricked New York’s Party People — and Its Banks Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.
By Jessica Pressler
5/13/2018
What I Learned on My Date With a Sex Robot Maybe they need to be more like us. Or maybe we’re already learning to be more like them.
By Allison P. Davis
5/1/2018
In Her New Book Motherhood, Sheila Heti Confronts an Eternal Female Crossroads The writer takes up the problem of whether to have a baby in her engrossing autobiographical novel.
By Molly Fischer
4/5/2018
Busy Philipps on Instagram, Her BFF Michelle Williams, and Losing Heath Ledger Instagram’s favorite storyteller has so much more to say.
By Allie Jones
4/2/2018
The ‘Mirror Face’ of 17 New York Women Women, photographed through a two-way mirror, reveal what they desire in themselves.
By Molly Fischer
3/16/2018
Teens Already Know How to Overthrow the Government You would too if you’d grown up reading the Hunger Games.
By Lisa Miller
3/1/2018
Zazie Beetz on Deadpool, Atlanta, and Overcoming Her Anxiety In the chaotic world of Atlanta, she’s a grounding force.
By Allison P. Davis
2/5/2018
Jameela Jamil Has Found Her Good Place The British TV presenter turned American sitcom star embraces life as a loose cannon.
By Anna Silman