Hermione Hoby
The Guardian
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Hermione:
‘All is not lost!’ Yeah Yeah Yeahs return with riffs, risks and radical optimism
The darlings of 00s indie sleaze shook jaded audiences into life with their raucous rock’n’roll. Twenty years later, facing ecological catastrophe and middle age, can they do it again? → Read More
Shunned, seized and now celebrated: the porn paintings of Betty Tompkins
Inspired by her husband’s porn stash, the artist’s explicit work horrified galleries and customs officials. Now the world can’t get enough. We visit her New York studio → Read More
A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops
Writer Philippe Ungar and photographer Franck Bohbot travelled across the Big Apple to meet 50 indie booksellers in their habitats → Read More
Karley Sciortino: the sex blogger and Slutever presenter redefining sexuality
Sciortino – a real-life Carrie Bradshaw – uses humour, parody and satire to open up conversations about sex → Read More
Zadie Smith’s Varieties of Individuality
Her new book “Feel Free” explores selfhood, chance, and what it means to be human. → Read More
8 of the Best New York City Meet-Cutes in Literature
Hermione Hoby, author of ‘Neon In Daylight,’ has found the most thrilling romantic beginnings in stories about New York → Read More
Jeffrey Eugenides: ‘I’m not trying to compete with the outrageousness of Trump’
The Pulitzer prize-winning author on his pledge to be cheerful in dark times → Read More
Good Time directors the Safdie brothers: ‘Robert Pattinson was just a guy chasing work’
The low-budget crime-thriller film-makers talk about being ‘petrified of stasis’ and casting the Twilight star in their latest release, despite not having seen his movies → Read More
Naomi Campbell: ‘People try to use your past to blackmail you. I won’t allow it’
Late and distracted by her phone, the model soon transforms from hauteur to warmth. She discusses racism, Vogue, stereotypes of black women and how, at 47, she’s finally become comfortable in her own skin → Read More
Banker Street, Brooklyn
They took you to church. → Read More
the turtleneck is an icon of thoughtful design
Hermione Hoby unpacks the Prius of garments. → Read More
the turtleneck is an icon of thoughtful design
Hermione Hoby unpacks the Prius of garments. → Read More
Eastbound L Train, Manhattan
Minor humiliations and idle cruelty. → Read More
Harvey Weinstein: fall of Hollywood player they once called ‘God’
For years rumours surrounded the movie mogul behind films such as Shakespeare in Love and Gangs of New York, but now his accusers are going on the record alleging sex assaults → Read More
Starbucks, Seventh Avenue and West 38th Street
On butts. → Read More
Exhibition at New York's MoMA embraces fashion for second time
The Museum of Modern Art last devoted a show to clothes in 1944. Its new show considers the last 100 years of dress → Read More
Greenpoint Subway Station
The celestial colander. → Read More
Trump Tower, Manhattan
You don't deserve attention. You can stay a stranger. → Read More
Stranger of the Week –
I will forever hold wearing a sailor dress to Molly Warren’s ninth birthday party as one of the great humiliations of my childhood. The mortification at realizing every other girl was in tracksuit… → Read More
The day Taylor Swift held my hand for a photo shoot
It’s summertime, New York City, 2014 and a starstruck reporter interviews the charismatic singer at a restaurant. Then it’s time to go… → Read More