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Women Looking at Women Looking at Their Phones

Early on in 3 Women by Robert Altman (1977), Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek decide to become roommates.

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June 2025

Head troubles

Lately, I keep having this recurring disembodied vision where I am floating in a large calm body of water, Ophelia style.

Jun 15 • 

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April 2025

Negative options

There is a scene in the underrated 2000s rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic where the titular shopaholic, Rebecca Bloomwood, squints at a credit card…

Apr 16 • 

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Baby fever

This summer, my sister is having a baby, which means that for the first time, I will be an aunt.

Apr 14 • 

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February 2025

Social Life

When I was an undergraduate, I took a comparative literature seminar where we read, among other introductory works of literary theory, T.S. Eliot’s 1944…

Feb 25 • 

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January 2025

Women in power

I went to see Babygirl on Christmas Day.

Jan 2 • 

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November 2024

On loneliness

“I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness,” declares the narrator at the start of Borges’s short story “The…

Nov 19, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Divorce plot

The first great divorce novel doesn’t actually feature a divorce at all.

Sep 29, 2024 • 

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About love

Sally Rooney and Chantal Akerman

Sep 24, 2024 • 

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On takedowns

At the start of Spare, his much maligned memoir, Harry Windsor, formerly a member of the British royal family, quotes Faulkner in his epigraph: “The…

Sep 4, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Reciprocity

From Miriam by Kate Riley

Aug 30, 2024 • 

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Into the Well

Love and a cough

Aug 8, 2024 • 

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