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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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June 2024
The Virgin Plot
Love and a cough
Jun 22, 2024
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May 2024
Zero-sum game
Love and a cough
May 25, 2024
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