Provinces
There’s a trajectory for Canadians, Torontonians, with interests and aspirations like my own: New York City.
Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy
All the clothes, interiors, and cultural politics of TV shows very much not of the moment.
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A parasocial interlude
The world is full of people, you know?
Bread drama
Or how I came around to Instagram
Good primping vs bad primping
and clothes-shopping and mommy-blogging
Writing, podcasting, shoe-shopping
Insert Carrie Bradshaw reference here
What did the 2010s look like?
Dobby from “Peep Show”
Postpartum
When someone out of their mind does something awful, there is often a temptation to stuff their actions into culture-wars categories, as though they had been acting rationally.
Mob rule
I have said, and will keep saying, that there’s such a thing as too much attention.
“Fashion roadkill”
On non-modeldom
Men are like so
Adelle Waldman, author of famously well-executed-male-protagonist-having The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,* writes, of seeing her ex-boyfriend out with his hot ditz new girlfriend,
My no-good very-bad kids' birthday party idea
A tale of modern parenting
Who can say?
By the time the upsetting news that former Cambridge professor Jason Arday had done the thing one fears whenever there’s a pile-on, I had just caught up with what this story was about.
Neck-lift transparency, phone-scrolling at playground, and eggs in deep freeze
-I’m confused about the purpose of Molly Jong-Fast’s—Erica Jong’s daughter’s—op-ed about the lifting of her neck.
On the books that 'should have been an essay'
I am doing the post-vacation thing with the glamorous name, playing catch-up. It’s such a cringe thing to admit to, and one that has this bizarre yet understandable tendency to lead interlocutors to imagine you’re one of them that’s always on vacation. I want to be like,
Living the dream
A hyperspecific European shopping post
Belgium and the south of France happened
“If anybody wants me, I’ll be in the lounge.” - Mr.
Away, message!
Yes, that's right, she's touched a single solitary blade of grass.
An open letter to the algorithm gnomes
What Facebook, Instagram, and Substack are trying in vain to get me to care about