Encounter - The Cut

encounter May 2, 2023

Minka Kelly Lets GoFor years, the actress lived under the weight of her chaotic upbringing. Now, with a new memoir, it’s time for release.

By Monica Corcoran Harel

encounter Apr. 21, 2023

Bridget Everett Finally Gets Her Due“No. 1 on the call sheet is not always a plus-size fading flower.”

By Juan A. Ramírez

encounter Apr. 20, 2023

What If You Weren’t Scared of Your Kid Being Fat?Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith wants to change the way parents think about healthy eating.

By Erica Schwiegershausen

encounter Mar. 2, 2023

Camila Morrone Steps Into Her Own SpotlightOn Daisy Jones & The Six, Morrone plays second fiddle to a guitar hero. In real life, she’s the star of her own show.

By Hannah Jackson

encounter Feb. 22, 2023

The Decision-MakerFor $197 an hour, Nell Wulfhart will tell you what your therapist won’t.

By Charlotte Cowles

encounter Feb. 9, 2023

It’s Not Just You — Lukas Gage Really Is Everywhere“I got to stop going viral. I got to just lay low.”

By Ira Madison III

making it Jan. 19, 2023

Casey Johnston Turned Bulking Up Into a BusinessThe unlikely weight-lifting coach is making a killing arguing that pumping iron can be for everyone (yes, even you).

By Emily Gould

encounter Dec. 16, 2022

A Holiday Engagement With Zoey DeutchWith Something From Tiffany’s, the actress revives the holiday rom-com.

By Katja Vujić

encounter Nov. 23, 2022

Allie Rowbottom Is No Botox MoralistHer new novel, Aesthetica, is a deft horror story about how far we can take our clout-chasing.

By Brock Colyar

encounter Nov. 9, 2022

The Nightgown Doyenne of Brooklyn HeightsAt the shop with Sandeep Salter.

By Madeline Leung Coleman

encounter Oct. 19, 2022

Carly Rae Jepsen Has a Cynical SideBut she’s still optimistic about love.

By Danielle Cohen

encounter Oct. 10, 2022

Danielle Brooks Must Go OnThe actress returns to Broadway as a leading lady in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.

By Tirhakah Love

encounter Oct. 7, 2022

She Could Handle Death Threats. Leaving Her Home Was Harder.Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor opens up about the decision to flee her homeland and the criticism around her return.

By Claire Lampen

encounter Sept. 12, 2022

Juuling With the Dudes Behind God’s Favorite BrandThe founders of niche Internet brand Praying on God, garbage, and that “Holy Spirit” bikini.

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

encounter Sept. 1, 2022

I Hate How Much I Don’t Hate Nick Viall’s Dating AdviceWe sat down with the surprisingly helpful former Bachelor.

By Emilia Petrarca

encounter Aug. 16, 2022

Alex Wagner Is Ready for AnythingThe 44-year-old journalist meets her moment as the new face of MSNBC.

By Karen K. Ho

encounter Aug. 10, 2022

Abbi Jacobson Knows the Pressure Is OnA League of Their Own, her first big project since Broad City, premieres this Friday.

By Katie Heaney

encounter July 1, 2022

Becca Tilley Gets Her RoseComing out to Bachelor Nation wasn’t easy, but it sure felt good.

By Katie Heaney

encounter May 30, 2022

Arden Cho Knows the Power of Saying ‘No’The actor opens up about walking away from Teen Wolf over unequal pay.

By Olivia Truffaut-Wong

encounter May 27, 2022

The Hostess Who Kept Their SecretGrace Faison — the 97-year-old Brooklyn Heights fixture — opens up about secretly housing women seeking illegal abortions in the late ’60s.

By Eliza Gray

encounter May 16, 2022

Would You Time Travel Back to Your Sweet 16?In Emma Straub’s latest, the novelist uses fantasy to revisit the past. It all happened in real life, too.

By Kate Dwyer

encounter May 11, 2022

The Second Coming of the Hipster GrifterIn 2009, Kari Ferrell made headlines for duping men in Williamsburg. Now she’s ready to reenter the spotlight.

By Bindu Bansinath

are u coming? May 2, 2022

Michael R. Jackson Doesn’t Really Care How You React to A Strange LoopBut he’d love Tucker Carlson to come see it.

By Brock Colyar

encounter Apr. 27, 2022

Can Heather Dubrow Save The Real Housewives of Orange County?She and her husband have blessed the show with their presence once again. Did it work?

By Katie Heaney

encounter Apr. 13, 2022

Sienna Miller Will Be Doing This Until She’s 80The actor, now starring in Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal, has been quite choosy about her career moves. Now she’s ready to have some fun.

By Hanna Hanra

encounter Apr. 11, 2022

Ocean Vuong Considers His Work ‘Badass Emo’“I don’t see the fame until it pounces on me, which literally happened the other day.”

By Brock Colyar

encounter Apr. 8, 2022

A Broken Heart Put Syd in a Better PlaceIn Broken Hearts Club, the R&B artist opens up about a terrible breakup. It all works out in the end, though.

By Bindu Bansinath

encounter Mar. 1, 2022

Ben McKenzie, Actor Turned Crypto NaysayerWho knew the world needed a celebrity crypto anti-influencer influencer — and that it would be Ryan from The O.C.?

By Bridget Read

encounter Feb. 3, 2022

Wendy MacNaughton’s Drawing LessonsThe illustrator teaching kids (and their parents) how to see.

By Elizabeth Weil

encounter Dec. 27, 2021

Peter Sarsgaard’s Literary FixationsThe bee-raising, orchard-tending Brooklyn aristocrat on reading Nabokov and making films with Maggie.

By Katja Vujić

encounter Dec. 16, 2021

Nicole Ari Parker Is SATC’s New GuardThe actress brings an energy that stays true to the show’s spirit.

By Aamina Khan

encounter Dec. 7, 2021

At Jamian Juliano-Villani’s New Gallery O’Flaherty’s, ‘Taste Is Out the Door’The painter and her pals thought the art world had gotten too prissy. “This is the thing. No one’s doing anything cool.”

By Matthew Schneier

encounter Dec. 6, 2021

This Is Still Candace Bushnell’s CityAnd just like that … she’s back! For ten weeks.

By Juan A. Ramírez

encounter Nov. 24, 2021

Christine Quinn Understands the AssignmentThe Selling Sunset star will do anything to make great reality television.

By Topher Gauk Roger

encounter Nov. 15, 2021

The Texas Pastor Preaching About Abortion RightsAmelia Fulbright has been taking a stand for years. More and more clergy are joining her.

By Amelia Schonbek

encounter Nov. 8, 2021

A Wet Afternoon With Snail MailThe singer-songwriter spends a rainy day being as confessional as her new album, Valentine.

By Marianne Eloise

encounter Nov. 2, 2021

Huma Abedin Is Ready to Tell You Who She IsThroughout a public career and an even more public marriage, the political confidante has remained an enigma, until now.

By Lisa Miller

encounter Oct. 22, 2021