Articles in this issue:

James Deen on The Canyons, Adult Film Clichés, and Sydney Leathers' Potential Porno

Books

Zimmerman, Abortion, and Obamacare: 25 Contemplations on Current Events

Fearing August Terror Plot, State Department Closes 17 Embassies, Issues Travel Alert for All U.S. Citizens

Royal Watch

Where I Go

Michael Lewis on Goldman Sachs

Audios Amigos!

The Writers of The Spectacular Now on Miles Teller’s Likeness to Ferris Bueller and Making Their Long-Distance Partnership Work

Shailene Woodley on The Spectacular Now, Loving Her First Sex Scene, and Redefining Movie Nerds

How Paula Abdul Reacted to Simon Cowell's Impending Fatherhood, and Other Imagined Celebrity Connections

Robin Thicke on Why His Controversial “Blurred Lines” Music Video Is Just as Dorky as It Is Sexy

The Spectacular Now Director James Ponsoldt on Why Mary Elizabeth Winstead Is His Muse

Movie Reviews

Photos: Movie Review: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring

The Wrapup, 2010

What It Was Like to Make The Canyons with Lindsay Lohan, a Producer’s Tale

Leven Rambin on How She’s Nothing Like the True Texan You Might Envision

The Proust Questionnaire: John Malkovich

Hot Type: Summer Reads from Peter Biskind, Brett Martin, and Kate Christensen

The Best Books of the Year, and Whom to Give Them To (Part Two)

Cullen Murphy Reads from God’s Jury

Kevin Avery Reads from Everything Is an Afterthought

Anita Hill Reads from Reimagining Equality

The Proust Questionnaire: Gina Lollobrigida

Lonely Island on the Wack Album, the Prospect of Touring, and Whether Any of Them Actually F***ed an Aunt

The Proust Questionnaire: Christine Baranski

Willie Geist Regrets His Sixth-Grade Style: Floral Jams and Teal Chuck Taylors—a “Key West Vibe”

Sister-Group HAIM on Touring the World and Sharing Clothes

My Family, Our Cancer, and the Murderous Cruelty of Conservatives

The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour

PRISM Isn’t Data Mining and Other Falsehoods in the N.S.A. “Scandal”