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Meet the NBA’s Surging New Superstar, Cade Cunningham
At 24, the Detroit Pistons point guard has begun to steadily reverse the fate of his long-beleaguered franchise—becoming one of the youngest and most laid-back members of the league’s ultra elite. GQ hung out with him in the Motor City and his hometown of Dallas to learn the secret to his relaxed greatness.
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How Lewis Pullman Came Back to Earth
After flying high in Top Gun: Maverick and saving the universe in Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, the actor wanted to go naturalistic on his next project. Enter The Testament of Ann Lee—an eccentric period drama which forced him to face some long-gestating anxieties.
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The Naked Ambition of the Heated Rivalry Boys
Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams were both virtual unknowns when they signed up to star as on-the-DL hockey players in a boldly smutty gay romance shot for a Canadian streamer. Now that the series is 2025’s biggest surprise hit, they’re navigating unfamiliar territory (and negotiating unprecedented thirst)—but at least they have each other to lean on.
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How the Stranger Things Boys Said Goodbye
As the most monumental series finale since Game of Thrones approaches, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp confront the end of the show that defined their childhood.
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Dwyane Wade Conquered the NBA. Can He Win at TV?
Half a decade ago, the elite shooting guard hung up his jersey and retired from the game. Now he’s coming back—as a talking head. GQ hung out with Father Prime as he gears up to join the broadcast team for Prime Video.
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How Josh O’Connor Became the Thinking Man’s Leading Man
Challengers and The Crown made him the internet’s most reluctant thirst trap. Now, with no less than four new films (including the next Knives Out), the actor stands on the precipice of megastardom. But, as he explains on an idyllic stroll (and dip) at his rural retreat, he’s determined to stay true to himself.
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Charlie Hunnam on His Dance With Death for the New Season of Monster
How does a charming actor with a Method-like tendency to disappear into his characters play a deviant killer like Ed Gein? With total commitment—even when Ryan Murphy hands you an accordion and tells you to play a polka. Charlie Hunnam on getting to the dark side and back for the latest season of Monster.
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Tyriq Withers Is Blitzing Through Hollywood
In the new Jordan Peele–produced horror film Him, Tyriq Withers stars as a fresh-faced quarterback learning the ropes from a wily vet played by Marlon Wayans. The 27-year-old former football player was unusually well suited for the challenge—then again, meaningful projects do keep seeming to find him at precisely the right junctures in his life.
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Raiders Rookie Ashton Jeanty Is on a Path to Greatness. Stay out of His Way
The college superstar, whose new NFL contract guarantees him more money than any running back not named Saquon Barkley, is prepared to do whatever it takes to help revive the Raiders—and he’s very, very confident he’s going to pull it off: “I won’t say I’m a hero, but I can’t let people see weakness in me.”
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The Anxious Return of Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker
He survived a badly broken home in the most isolated city in the world to become the rock-star mastermind of Tame Impala. He has a wife and a growing family. He’s even become a hook whisperer for Rihanna, Dua Lipa, and Lady Gaga. But he’s still an awkward teenage loser at heart—and it might be the secret of his success.
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How Ethan Hawke Found the Sweet Spot
While other ’90s idols raked in blockbuster paychecks, the actor took an unexpected road: writing novels, staging plays and making low-budget indie flicks with director Richard Linklater. Now, with cinema culture firmly in its Letterboxd era and Hawke generating awards chatter once again, he’s showing a new generation the benefits of staying the course.
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Tyshawn Jones Is Still Skating the Edge of What’s Possible
Three years after pulling off a trick that made him a living legend—a death-defying kickflip over a Harlem subway-platform gap—the skater and Louis Vuitton ambassador keeps making the unprecedented look easy.
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Manhattan Is Back at the Center of the Restaurant Universe
In New York—and much of the country—COVID was a near extinction event for restaurants. But out of the ashes, an entirely fresh crop of new dining experiences has reasserted Manhattan as a place you have to be—and eat.
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How Too Much Star Will Sharpe Reinvented the Rom-Com Heartthrob
In Lena Dunham’s buzzy new Netflix series, the actor spins the love interest into something much more idiosyncratic—emotional baggage and all.
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Can David Corenswet Save Superman?
In a world-historical moment rife with villainy and loose scruples, James Gunn has staked his reboot of the DC Comics Universe on a Superman with core values, a sunny disposition, and a weakness for romance. Says Corenswet, who has to make it all work: “A role like Superman seems like something that everybody would want, and that’s not true.”
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We're All Aboard the Morgan Spector Train
The Gilded Age actor is back as robber baron George Russell (affectionately known as “Railroad Daddy” to his fans). Ahead of the HBO period drama’s thrilling third season, we hung out with Spector on the Upper East Side to talk subversive masculinity, being a wife guy, and suddenly becoming famous in his 40s.
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How Teyana Taylor Battled the Competition in Two Industries—And Won
Five years ago, she walked away from her record deal and bet on herself as an actress. Now she’s dropping a wild new visual album, Escape Room—and starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly anticipated One Battle After Another.
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How Haim Quit Caring About All That
With their fourth album, I Quit, Alana, Danielle, and Este Haim expunge negative feelings about shitty exes, bad dates, and a rock music community that refuses to acknowledge them. Now, as Alana puts it during a hang in the Valley, “it’s time to party.”
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Clipse Talk Love, Hate, and What Rap’s Been Missing
After more than fifteen years apart, the brothers Thornton, better known as Malice and Pusha T, are back together, with a new Pharrell Williams-produced album that ranks with their most potent product ever—and they’re ready to go on record about Kanye, Drake, and the state of the game.
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The Last of Us Star Kaitlyn Dever Is Only Getting Stronger
In making the zombie show’s most harrowing scene yet, Kaitlyn Dever’s life and work collided devastatingly. But in the end it helped her process the worst period of her life.