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The Death Of The Album Has Serious Consequences For Music Lovers.

The Reluctant - Father's Guide To Being A Dad

“I never wanted kids,” says Sorabh Pant, taking a swig of his Erdinger beer. “I just never got the idea of children. Heck, I didn’t even want to get married.” On this balmy afternoon, the stand-up comic is seated at Woodside Inn in South Mumbai, “trying to get some writing done” between meetings, press interviews and testing new material at open mic nights.

Cardi B's Money Moves

The rapper responsible for last year’s most unexpected hit emerged from a singular New York City story of strip clubs, gangs and below-board basement butt injections. Navigating new fame and a new record, Invasion Of Privacy, Cardi B is fighting to stay true to her Bronx roots while the world clamours for her to become a global superstar

The Importance Of Being Ranbir

The Kapoor scion with a Supreme addiction on the value of solitude, being selfish – and growing up

Across The Spectrum

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that pop music’s gone queer. And Leo Kalyan, the British singer-songwriter of South Asian origin, is here for it

This Is Hollywood's Inner Sanctum

New LA members’ club San Vicente Bungalows stakes its reputation on protecting that of its guests. A home away from home for A-list actors, music legends and studio executives, it’s the truest expression of owner Jeff Klein’s philosophy: Discretion is the better part of luxury. Here, GQ takes a rare look at the secretive world behind the toughest doors in town

Second Innings

With a new season of Sacred Games and a brand new production house, Anurag Kashyap is ready for another chapter in his long Bollywood career

How To Become A Superhero Version Of Yourself

The life-changing benefits of training (or, why I took up bodybuilding at 30)

Drive Rising Star

Lexus may have arrived to the party a bit late in the country. But a revealing dime tour of its homeland shows that it’s got plenty of aces up its sleeve

The Long Game

With Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor has delivered the biggest hit of 2019 so far – and ascended to the top tier of Tinseltown. The best part? He’s done it on his own

Mr Brightside

He’s the clown pimp in luxury fashion. Better yet, Justin O’Shea is putting men back into menswear.

The Long Road

Cartier’s stylish new men’s only Drive watch collection has one foot on the throttle.

The Art Of The Reveal

The ghostwriter of Trump’s best-selling memoir says the business mogul is unfit to lead.

Everything You Need To Know About Matt Damon

As Matt Damon returns to the Bourne franchise, we decided to assemble this handy guide to the habits, quirks and inner life of an honest-to-god screen legend, as told by George Clooney, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck and the other titans who know him best

Break The Rules

What do you wear when you can wear anything? We’ve got a few ideas

Paradise Found

Veteran cynic Anish Trivedi finds a spa he approves of in a forest outside Chandigarh

Second To None

A. Lange & Söhne’s back to galvanising the art of timekeeping with the Triple Split

Day Of Reckoning

Hollywood legend Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona is quite possibly the most culturally significant wristwatch of the 20th century. And, as of three months ago, it’s also the most expensive one to be sold, ever

Seine Language

As India’s most famous contemporary artist readies for his debut solo retrospective in France, Subodh Gupta talks objects, objectives and obsessions

Paranoid Android

As a new season of Jonathan and Lisa Nolan’s Westworld readies to infiltrate the human world, GQ catches up with James Marsden, who plays a sentimental-gone sentient humanoid, on the sci-fi heroes the world needs right now

The Kids Are All Right

Following their smashing success in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, these new Indian cricketers are gunning for the spotlight in the big league

What Kind Of Perfect Body Am I Supposed To Be Jealous Of Now?

The jacked “This is Sparta!” bod is out; svelte is in. Here’s a breakdown of the new body goal (#goals?) for narcissistic men everywhere

String Theory

Get to know London-based sarod virtuoso Soumik Datta, who’s keeping classical music relevant in an age of ever-diminishing attention spans

Becoming Single

WHEN CHANGE COMES, IT’S RUTHLESS

How Donald Trump Fooled The Media!

Not a single newspaper or TV network backed Donald Trump for president. So when this media made Frankenstein's monster beat Hillary Clinton, it vindicated everything his supporters believed about the mainstream elite. Now, GQ asks where the liberal establishment can go from here.

Hollywood's Handsomest, Wittiest, Song - And - Danciest , Leading Man

Ryan Gosling is already timeless. He can go away for a while, do some art-movie adventuring and some enthusiastic kid-having with Eva Mendes, then waltz right back into his gig as Hollywood’s leading leading man. He’ll probably do it all again in five years – waltz off, waltz back, slay, repeat. But he was at the Oscars last year (and the year before that), and this year he’s inheriting Blade Runner from Harrison Ford. Right here, right now – this is Ryan Gosling’s next peak. GQ’s Chris Heath travels to Budapest to witness it up close.

Why You Should Write Emails Like A Lady

Eavesdropping is, you understand, my sacred journalistic duty.

Are You Having a Midlife Crisis!

You’ve seen him. Fifty-plus with fresh hair plugs gunning his leased Porsche 911 at the lights while the 20-year-old Tinder date riding shotgun crops him out of selfies. And you think, “That’ll never happen to me.”

The Heat Is On

Ice caps are melting, forests are on fire, the floods are coming. Rolex Award winner Sonam Wangchuk wants to know what you are doing about it.

Why The World Is Loving Dev Patel?

Few actors seemed to get more attention at the Oscars this year than Dev Patel, who rocked up to the red carpet fresh off his BAFTA win for his stirring performance in Lion. Through the ceremony, the cameras were trained on the actor (his clowning around with co-star kid Sunny Pawar briefly broke the internet on this glitziest of nights), a marker of his rapid ascension in the Hollywood pecking order. Yet Patel, who came into the spotlight for his role in Slumdog Millionaire, could have been a onehit wonder.