Mastermind

Features - News

Five Takeaways from Hoyeon and Alicia Vikander’s Cover Story

In Mastermind 20, the pair reflect on their respective paths to fame, self-doubt and how they supported one another in ‘Hope,’ their new film.

Words by Jeremy Olds
Photography by Ethan James Green

Features - News

Ten Years of Mastermind

Mastermind celebrates a decade in print with a series of events and projects, including a new issue, a podcast, an exhibition and a surprise.

Words by Jeremy Olds
Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

Features - Film

The Venice Film Festival Warns of a World on the Brink

From Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ to the Golden Lion winner ‘Woman Unknown,’ this year’s festival offered a sobering portrait of wealth and control.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Image of 'Primetime' courtesy of A24

Features - Film

Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz Play a Marriage on the Brink in ‘Bunker’

Florian Zeller’s architecturally minded drama casts the pair as a couple whose foundation is cracking, with Paul Dano stealing the film as a ‘prepper’ tech mogul.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Image courtesy of Venice Film Festival

Features - Film

‘Woman Unknown’ Is a Tense Portrait of Postwar Denmark

In her latest film, May el-Toukhy uses one woman’s wartime secret to interrogate shame and survival in liberated Denmark.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Image courtesy of Venice Film Festival/Jasper Spanning

Features - Film

‘Primetime’ is Peak A24, For Better or Worse

Robert Pattinson shines in Lance Oppenheim’s ‘To Catch a Predator’ drama, but the film lacks substance.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Image courtesy of A24/Sinna Nasseri

Features - Interviews / Literature

Laura Kasischke’s Portrait of an American Illusion

Laura Kasischke spent 12 years writing 'The Lifeguard' – a journey of endurance mirrored in the novel itself, where a small-town community struggles to come to terms with the drowning of a child.

Interview by Léonard Desbrières
Image courtesy of Gallimard

Features - Film

Éric Rohmer’s Endless Summers

A field guide to the director’s tanned and tormented vacationers.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Still from 'Claire's Knee,' 1970 / Alamy

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Summer Through Mastermind: End of the Golden Weather

Alasdair McLellan captures the ineffable blur of the last summer day before the sun goes down. A tender portrait of youth soaked in nostalgia, it holds a longing for something only just passed.

Features - Food and Travel / Recommendations

The Scoop on Paris’s Ice Cream Boom

As Paris swelters through another heatwave filled summer, four ice cream makers reflect on queues, virality and surviving winter.

Words by Grace Jewitt
Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Features - Food and Travel / Recommendations

Inez and Vinoodh’s Guide to Amsterdam

Partners in work and life for more than four decades, photographers Inez and Vinoodh return to the city that shaped them, curating a guide to their favourite spots around Amsterdam.

Interview by Elspeth Mair
Self-portrait by Inez & Vinoodh

Features - Literature

A Reader’s Guide to Rachel Cusk

From the crowd-pleasing 'Outline' trilogy to the memoir she called her "creative death," a way into Rachel Cusk's uncompromising body of work.

Image courtesy of Faber & Faber
Words by Barry Pierce