Zach Baron

We lean on them to inspire us, provoke us, or make us LOL. Here, influential men of all ages and political stripes debates the big topics facing men today.

The Hollywood icon, 78, talks evolving with the times and refusing to abandon his identity.

The Atlanta rapper reveals new details about his two and a half years of detention and his latest album, ‘UY Scuti,’ in an exclusive interview and GQ Video Cover Story.

Ben Affleck wants to make films as an executive first, director second, and actor third these days. But can he really stop being one of the biggest movie stars alive?

The most decorated late-night host in the history of television meets GQ's Zach Baron in his hometown for a wide-ranging discussion on the cost of showbiz, the art of interviewing, and why he'll never retire.

Every weekday, Trent Reznor makes his way from his house, a cottagey sprawl behind a white wall in a canyon on Los Angeles’s Westside, to a studio he’s built in his backyard. There he meets his best friend, bandmate, and business partner, Atticus Ross, and they get to work. Reznor and Ross observe the same hours, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. “We show up,” Reznor told me. “We’re not late. We’re not coming in to start to fuck around.” It’s a methodical, orderly existence that Reznor co…

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss GQ story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When my son’s nose runs, which is often, him being small, I sometimes think about the genetic tests my wife and I took. It’s a stage in the IVF process; or at least, it was a stage in ours. A company draws your blood and looks at your DNA and your partner’s DNA and how that DNA might combine and then they tell you: your child is at ris…

Introducing the first-ever GQ Video Cover Story, a new format that delivers all the access and depth of a classic GQ print profile—but does it via longform digital video. For our inaugural Video Cover Story, we’re proud to unveil this 34-minute immersive feature on André 3000. Watch the video, reported by GQ’s Zach Baron and directed by Noel Howard, in its entirety above, and read the accompanying profile from our 2023 Men of the Year issue below. When André 3000 was a kid, he used to get on hi…

As Hollywood wages war over the future of movies, Harmony Korine and a gang of video game designers and AI artists are holed up in a house near Mar-a-Lago building it.

Starring as Ken in ‘Barbie,’ Ryan Gosling talks candidly about the new kind of films he wants to make—and the offscreen roles he’s prioritizing in real life.

He was a movie star who seemed to vanish from Hollywood. Now, suddenly, Brendan Fraser is an Oscar favorite—and reckoning with the kind of comeback you only see in the movies.

He’s spent decades pretending to not be himself. Now, at 47, one of the world’s greatest actors speaks with rare candor about navigating a career he never quite chose and building a life he sometimes can’t fathom.

His fairy-tale rise made him a sensation. But now, after turning the once-dismal Bucks into champions, he’s becoming something more like a legend. Inside the whirlwind next chapter for the NBA’s most dazzling global star—who’s deciding what he intends to conquer next.

Jeff Bezos’s epic quest to bring a beloved series of fantasy novels to life—and maybe change the face of global television forever.

The star of ‘Ted Lasso’ opens up about season two, recovering from his breakup, and what he really thinks of ‘SNL.’

“They’re manipulating people’s behavior,” the Apple CEO tells GQ in a frank conversation about his hope that Apple’s new privacy initiatives will help solve some of the internet’s scariest problems.

The actor, director, and GQ Icon of the Year is the one thing we can all agree on—at a time when we can’t agree on anything.

A treasured scene for me: a late-middle-aged Bill Murray, in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, showing up at Scarlett Johansson’s hotel room door in an inappropriately youthful orange camouflage T-shirt, only for Johansson to burst out laughing. Murray retreats to the bathroom, turns the shirt inside out. And into the Tokyo night they go, undaunted. What a vision of how clothing can both reveal and bolster the soul! Turn a shirt inside out and set yourself free. Coppola has a new movie out th…

See more from GQ’s Change Is Good issue. There Jaron Lanier and I were, side by side on my computer screen, in a virtual space that looked a little like a conference room and a little like a movie theater. We could’ve been jurors, maybe. I was able to approximate rubbing his head. “As you have discovered,” Lanier said, noticing, “you can reach and interact with people a little bit. So there is this shared-space quality.” He was in Berkeley, California, in the hills above the city, in a house th…

Joshua Williams was 18 when he was arrested for stealing a bag of chips and lighting a QuikTrip trash can on fire in the aftermath of a protest sparked by the death of Antonio Martin near Ferguson, MO. It was December, 2014; Williams had already been in the streets for months already at that point, protesting the killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. During that time, Williams became a well-known and well-liked activist in Ferguson. Williams eventually pleaded guilty to counts t…