Angling for the Big Fish That Breaks Hearts

People fall in love with Patagonia for many reasons. The breathtaking landscape. The gauchos. The Malbec For me it was the thrill of fly-fishing in a mountain stream near the bottom the world. On my latest trip would I finally hook that elusive trout worthy of my majestic surroundings? By David Coggins

The Undeniable Joel Kim Booster

The actor, comedian, and writer has hit his career sweet spot: not \"widely reviled on the Internet yet\" but high on the authentic power of making people laugh.

IN JUDGMENT OF DONALD TRUMP

He may never face justice for his most serious offenses. But the everyday prosecutors who've won clear verdicts against him have exposed Trump as the unfit citizen he truly is.

TRAVEL GETS LIT

Book butlers! Curated libraries! Custom cruises! Literary-themed vacations are the hot new trend in tourism.

RED ALERT

Dior’s asymmetrical, angular Chiffre Rouge watch is back and as bold as ever

EVERY THING MEANS SOME THING WHAT IT'S LIKE BEING ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

Last night he came downstairs around bedtime and didn't see either of them.

Shawn Fain Is Done Making Nice

The combative new president of the United Auto Workers has emerged as the strongest voice in a resurgent labor movement in America

Game Time for Grown-ups

My most meaningful form of self-help right now involves an afternoon of Skee-Ball, Super Shot, Pac-Man, and a double-pepperoni flatbread from the Shareables menu—all punched into my Dave Buster’s Power Card

SHOES FOR GETTING WEIRD

The Rick Owens sneakers that remind Christopher Fenimore, the photographer behind the popular Five Fits series on Esquire.com, of a stranger time in his life

MAC DADDY

You need the simple, streamlined mackintosh coat in your spring rotation

MEET THE WILDEST CHARCTER IN THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC SCENE

Right now, to be the most important new voice in Afrobeats means you might just be the most important new voice in global music, period. That title currently belongs to Asake, a Nigerian singer with bonkers style and a penchant for making speaker-melting hits.

QUEEN of the YOUTH

Hunter Schafer has built a career by saying yes: to activism, to modeling, and then to acting, where Euphoria made her a star. Now, with a budding movie career and big plans in just about every field you can imagine, the Gen Z icon is figuring out exactly what sort of creative life she'd like to lead.

LEWIS HAMILTON IS CHANGING LANES

The seven-time F1 champ says he still has a world title in him-maybe this year, his final one at Mercedes; maybe next year when he joins Ferrari, a shocking move he tells us he manifested. But it's his passionate work outside of racing-in fashion, in film, in music-that's setting him up to keep making moves after the checkered flag drops on his racing career.

INSIDE BANNY MCBRIDE'S LOWCOUNTRY COMEDY COMMUNE

After taking big screens and HBO by storm with his macho-lampooning humor, comedy hero Danny McBride uprooted his life in Hollywood to build his dream production studio in Charleston, South Carolina-away from the stifling industry, and alongside his closest friends and collaborators. That's where he's been unlocking a blistering new creative gear-and plotting his best work yet.

The New Gold Standard in Tasteful Watches

Piaget's Polo 79 once again marks the end of the steel sports watch's reign-and the start of something much more fun.

MARNI'S FRANCESCO RISSO WILL NEVER GROWUP

The eccentric Italian designer is proving that the very serious business of fashion doesn't have to be very serious at all.

WELCOME TO LAUREN HALSEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD

The red-hot 36-year-old artist has achieved global success with a very local approach: applying imaginative, laserlike focus to a few square blocks of her hometown. In doing so, she renders and reflects what it's actually like to live and work in-and never, ever leave-South Central Los Angeles.

DARK KINGDOM

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-best friends and Nine Inch Nails bandmates-found unlikely creative fulfillment (and a couple of Oscars) by reassessing what they had to offer as musicians. Now they're thinking even bigger, and imagining an artistic empire of their own making.

Profiles – Mr. Vengeance

The director of "Oldboy” and "The Handmaiden” brings his gift for spectacle to American television.

A Reporter at Large – The Assault

One of Ukraine's most skilled fighting units battles beneath a canopy of drones.

Our Local Correspondents – Trash, Trash Revolution

What would it take to really clean up New York City?

WILD THINGS

In movies as in life, never assume. One of the joys of being a film critic is encountering surprising work from filmmakers whose habits seemed all too ingrained.

SCARED STRAIGHT

The posture wars, past and present.

ON AND OFF THE MENU BALABUSTA

At home with Joan Nathan, the grande dame of Jewish cooking.

THE CRITICS BOOKS CANDYLAND

A new biography assembles the story of the trans actress and gender revolutionary Candy Darling.

Finistère Kevin Barry

The big man was in a condition of thrilling remorse. He was brokenhearted again at fifty-five and loving it.

OLD-FASHIONED KNOW-HOW

Listen, kid, when you’ve been through the things I’ve been through, you know some things about things.

At the Altar of Korean Fried Chicken

Coqodaq's owner calls it a cathedral. It feels more like a club.

In the Belly of the Barbz

Fear them. Cheer them. Nicki Minaj fans are sticking by their queen.

WHO ATE WHERE

119 YEARS of PUNK BREAKFASTS, UPTOWN LUNCHES, DRUNKEN DEALMAKING, and IMPOSSIBLE RESERVATIONS