Editor’s note: On Friday, Kanye West premiered “Famous,” an extended music video for his single in which he portrayed a variety of recognizable faces sleeping in the nude. The 10-minute video has naturally sparked a mixture of outrage and confusion. Here, critics Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich attempt…

As you might imagine, a porn star takes her lingerie drawer very seriously. “This is the working lingerie desk,” says Stoya, gesturing to a vintage-looking writing desk in her Brooklyn apartment. “It’s for sets that are special for me but haven’t been shot, things I haven’t worn on-camera. They live…

Well, here’s one of the most straightforward video game reviews I’ll ever write. Back in 2010, a Danish indie studio called Playdead released a macabre side-scroller called Limbo . It was good . In 2016, that same studio is releasing a new macabre side-scroller. This one’s called Inside , and it’s…

88 Everyone who has ever played Éric Chahi’s Another World (1991) remembers the “Beast.” Emerging from a pool of water, you see a four-legged silhouette perched menacingly on a nearby ledge. The creature then exits to the right. On the next screen it appears momentarily in the background, but you’re…

BREXIT backers must now put flesh on the bones of their post-EU plans, including new arrangements for trade. During the campaign, Boris Johnson said Britain could follow Canada’s example and strike free trade deals with the rest of the world while maintaining control of its borders. But what is the…

The SNP's attempt to be made the official opposition at Westminster has been rejected by the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Scottish National Party had argued that its Commons leader enjoyed the support of more MPs than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. There are currently 54 SNP MPs but only 40 of…

The name of a new polar research vessel will be chosen by a panel of experts, even if the public overwhelmingly votes to call it Boaty McBoatface. Lord West, ex-First Sea Lord, said he was rather proud "silly names" had been suggested but hoped none were chosen. The Natural Environment Research…

Angela Merkel told the Bundestag talks over UK’s post-EU future would not be a ‘cherry-picking exercise’.Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Angela Merkel , the German chancellor, has dismissed Boris Johnson’s proposal that Britain might enjoy access to the European single market and restrict immigration…

“IMMIGRATION, immigration, immigration,” shouted a headline in the Sun , a right-wing tabloid newspaper, the week that Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed weeks of campaigning from the Leave side assuring voters that they would “take back control” and restrict EU migration if…

GROWING up a British, and specifically an English person, is bound to have some effect on one’s personality. Just supporting the national sports team induces a sense of perpetual disappointment, as the recent loss to Iceland has illustrated. There is a trait of self-deprecation, which Americans…

Justin Timberlake and Vic Mensa. Last weekend, the annual Pride celebrations and the BET Awards hit on the same summer Sunday evening, as they often do, and incidents arose out of each event that illuminated a need for keener, more informed social-justice advocacy from stars in and around hip-hop.…

Boris Johnson may appear shambolic. He is anything but. The UK’s possible next prime minister is an upper-class master of schmoozing and game-playing. Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Amid the post-referendum rending of garments over Brexit, it has become settled wisdom that it was older working-class voters…

On Friday morning, flags displayed to support the English soccer team seemed like sinister manifestations of the country’s new patriotism of Brexit. PHOTOGRAPH BY SERGEY DOLZHENKO / EPA Sometimes, everything seems connected. While the U.K. has been debating its eventual departure from the European…

A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, officials say. Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back. PM Binali…

The BET Awards Sunday featured tributes to Prince and Muhammad Ali, and a performance by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar. But this year, the actor Jesse Williams commanded the spotlight with an impassioned speech calling for an end to police killings, racial inequality and cultural appropriation. — deray…

Phil Toledano I t’s 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term. Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at the establishment. Congress and the White House seem incapable of working together on…

Here is a guide to understanding Britain's vote to leave the European Union, a decision known as “Brexit” that will have global consequences for years to come. Complete news coverage is here. What happened? More than 17.4 million Britons voted June 23 to sever ties with the European Union , whose…

“DON’T go anywhere near a mosque,” I told my mother. “Do all your prayer at home. O.K.?” “We’re not going,” she replied. I am the son of Muslim immigrants. As I sent that text, in the aftermath of the horrible attack in Orlando, Fla., I realized how awful it was to tell an American citizen to be…

Britain's shock vote to pull out of the European Union wiped $2.1 trillion from global equity markets Friday as traders panicked in the face of a new threat to the global economy. Investors fled to the safety of gold, the yen and blue-chip bonds as the seismic shift in the structure of Europe left…

ON JUNE 17th Radiohead, a British rock band, played an unexpected cameo role in Turkey’s increasingly bitter conflict between secularists and zealots. About two dozen men, some armed with pipes, stormed an Istanbul record shop where fans of the group had gathered to listen to their new album.…

There are reasons to doubt whether last week’s decision by British voters to leave the European Union, a move supported by Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, will ever be implemented. Photograph by Neil Hall / Reuters As I noted on Friday, Britain won’t be exiting the E.U. anytime soon . If…

Update: In case you needed evidence that Trump was indeed having a very bad month, he just parted ways with his campaign manager . Below is a post from Sunday breaking down just how disastrous this month has been. Supporters of Donald Trump got an unexpected plea on Saturday: a request to send the…

Joshua Davis has come a long way since DJing for his college radio station in the ’80s. As soon as he adopted the name DJ Shadow and released his first LP Endtroducing …. in 1996, he began altering the musical landscape with his highly sampled tracks. Now, he’s achieved cult status. Each release is…

The X is dead—long live macOS. With this fall’s release of macOS Sierra, Apple is bringing some familiar iOS features to the Mac, along with interesting interactions with iOS hardware, a dramatic expansion of iCloud, a major update to Photos, and a lot more. I’ve spent the past few days using an…

THEY hoped—and believed—it wouldn’t happen. But now the world’s biggest banks must brace themselves for Britain’s departure from the European Union. Today bankers will simply be trying to weather the turmoil after yesterday’s vote. But in the weeks and months to come they will have to decide whether…

In college, I majored in Rhetoric. Yes, I know . My major disqualified me from every job imaginable. Yet, I've been employed my entire adult life. This is because after college I realized I am good at filling out job applications. I'm really fucking good at it. Filling out applications is my super…

BRITAIN has never been a typical European Union (EU) member. It is the only country vetoed for membership (by France), and twice, at that. It joined only in 1973, almost two decades after the original six members established the European Economic Community. It is more free-trading, free-marketeering…

LONDON — I have been overcome by gloom since Britain voted to leave the European Union. It’s not just the stupidity of the decision. It’s not merely the lies of the charlatans who led the “Leave” campaign. It’s not only the absence, now so evident, of any “Nextit.” It’s not even the betrayal of…

IF BRITAIN votes to leave the European Union, it seems likely to spell the end of David Cameron as prime minister. Even if he does not resign, his backbenchers will force him out. In the circumstances it will be hard for those who backed Remain to step into the role; the most likely replacement…

The centre-right appears to have been re-elected IN ITS second general election in six months, Spain has moved much closer to breaking its political deadlock. The big winners in the vote on June 26th were Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister, and his centre-right People’s Party (PP). The PP did not…

Courtesy of Kanye West I’m watching a video of 12 of the most famous people on the planet naked in bed together. The material is being guarded so closely that the people in possession of it have refused to send me a link in case it gets hacked. Instead I’m looking at it via Skype, with the person on…

Mainstream video games have a problem with sex. The question they struggle with today is not whether or not to include it, but rather how to portray it. According to Robert Yang during a 2016 Games for Change talk, most video games are still missing some key points: Sex can be awkward, and it's…

Are you still undecided? Are you someone who – pummelled by weeks of claim and counter-claim – has been left exhausted and annoyed? Have you been looking for answers, yet all you’ve encountered are insults and exaggeration? Maybe you’re so fed up you think to hell with it, let’s throw caution to the…

A dachshund passes through the lives of several owners in Todd Solondz’s movie. Illustration by Guillaume Plantevin The new Todd Solondz film, “Wiener-Dog,” really is about a dog. The animal in question is a female dachshund, with a sleek chestnut coat and a purposeful trot, plus the indefinable air…

IT WAS a troubling exchange. On live television Faisal Islam, the political editor of SkyNews, was recounting a conversation with a pro-Brexit Conservative MP. “I said to him: ‘Where’s the plan? Can we see the Brexit plan now?’ [The MP replied:] ‘There is no plan. The Leave campaign don’t have a…

A string of frontbenchers depart in protest at their leader’s tepid referendum campaign IT IS the sort of political crisis that might normally dominate the headlines for days. But these are hardly normal times in Britain. After a week in which voters decided to leave the European Union, causing the…

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC that Holyrood could try to block the UK's exit from the EU. She was speaking following a referendum on Thursday which saw Britain vote by 52% to 48% to leave Europe. However, in Scotland the picture was different with 62% backing Remain and…

BY INSTINCT Americans cheer declarations of independence, especially when those going it alone claim to be throwing off the shackles of foreign tyranny. A certain note of piquant irony may intrude when the revolutionaries hail from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. But no…

HOW quickly the unthinkable became the irreversible. A year ago few people imagined that the legions of Britons who love to whinge about the European Union—silly regulations, bloated budgets and pompous bureaucrats—would actually vote to leave the club of countries that buy nearly half of Britain’s…