# 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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## [Provinces](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/provinces)

_2026-08-30 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

There’s a trajectory for Canadians, Torontonians, with interests and aspirations like my own: New York City.

## [A parasocial interlude](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-parasocial-interlude)

_2026-08-28 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

The world is full of people, you know?

## [Bread drama](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/bread-drama)

_2026-08-27 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

Or how I came around to Instagram

## [Good primping vs bad primping](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/good-primping-vs-bad-primping)

_2026-08-27 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

and clothes-shopping and mommy-blogging

## [Writing, podcasting, shoe-shopping](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/writing-podcasting-shoe-shopping)

_2026-08-25 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

Insert Carrie Bradshaw reference here

## [What did the 2010s look like?](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/what-did-the-2010s-look-like)

_2026-08-24 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

Dobby from “Peep Show”

## [Postpartum](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/postpartum)

_2026-08-22 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

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](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/mob-rule)

_2026-08-20 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

I have said, and will keep saying, that there’s such a thing as too much attention.

## [“Fashion roadkill”](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/fashion-roadkill)

_2026-08-19 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

On non-modeldom

## [Men are like so](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/men-are-like-so)

_2026-08-19 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

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,

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_2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_

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## [My no-good very-bad kids' birthday party idea](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/my-no-good-very-bad-kids-birthday)

_2026-08-17 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

A tale of modern parenting

## [Who can say?](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/who-can-say)

_2026-08-17 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

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](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/neck-lift-transparency-phone-scrolling)

_2026-08-14 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

-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'](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/on-the-books-that-should-have-been)

_2026-08-13 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

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](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/living-the-dream)

_2026-08-11 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

A hyperspecific European shopping post

## [Belgium and the south of France happened](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/belgium-and-the-south-of-france-happened)

_2026-08-10 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

“If anybody wants me, I’ll be in the lounge.” - Mr.

## [Away, message!](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/away-message)

_2026-08-01 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

Yes, that's right, she's touched a single solitary blade of grass.

## [An open letter to the algorithm gnomes](https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-algorithm-gnomes)

_2026-07-24 · Phoebe Maltz Bovy_

What Facebook, Instagram, and Substack are trying in vain to get me to care about