Trigger for What
Trigger warnings on literature in college courses is not illiberal coddling but a reflection of the false universality of "great books" syllabi
True Stories
Only fiction can be about the trivial without being trivial.
The Princess and the Brain
Kate Middleton and the limits of choice feminism
The Two Standards of Beauty
On the inevitability of imperfection
An assortment
Riffing off Autumn's head-to-toe theme
Too Brilliant to Bathe
Does soap kill brain cells?
So French
On the insouciance of thousand-dollar moisturizer.
"Real beauty comes from within"
When concerns about cosmetic safety are not what they seem
"Never could I tell him it was him."
How Rufus Wainwright and George Costanza explain female heterosexuality
"How many avocadoes is too many avocadoes a week?"
Gwyneth Paltrow and the avocado menace