The Viral Virus
...of your life goals and not have generalized anxiety disorder. You can enjoy watching Netflix alone and still be a little bit of an extrovert. It’s complex! You’re complex. But...
Labor Models
... Eating Disorder Awareness Week, an annual event from the National Eating Disorders Association, is always a bit of a conundrum for me. I feel passionately about eating...
The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
...loves to reward with a bubble bath and some crumbly cocoa solids. It sticks in the mouth a bit. … I think there’s a very real sense in which women...
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...their recently committed sins exist, perhaps as yet throbbing invisibly somewhere in the ethereal glow of the city’s never-quite-night night sky, which fades as they return to their nobler ordinary...
#mybodymyhome (i)
...case for “cultural exemptions” by claiming, “In some cultures, it is a demonstration of love when you do a bit of beating to your wife. . . .if you do...
Is Entourage Sorry?
...as I didn’t really want to watch Entourage, it would be okay to watch it a little bit. But then something strange happened: Instead of the traditional formula, the show...
Walter White Supremacy
...Breaking Bad so sparingly depicts. When we do see White's ultimate customers, they're zombies: all scabs and eroded teeth. We're not talking about impulse buyers or comparison shoppers here; it's...
Short Circuit
...(via Boston, Chicago, and Memphis) a bit over a decade ago, but Weintraub’s cinema is an altogether more sophisticated thing visually, playing on The New Talkies tired theme of youthful...
Grooming Style
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
Jennifer's Body, Redux: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Actresses
...of me has to agree. But I think that’s also a bit of a red herring, and here’s why: Talented actresses are asked all the time to manipulate their bodies...
A Sentimental Education
...Poet, essayist, translator, activist — Russian writer Kirill Medvedev has worn and taken off many hats While many things about present day Russia might seem still a bit Soviet,...
The Risks of Overreporting
...the real thing, and those gel trays are repulsive.) When we overreport—or overread reports—of beauty work that crosses the line, we nudge ourselves just a little bit closer to that...
Managing Hearts with Kim and Flo
...periods of waiting. They emphasize action, reflexes, decision-making, and efficiency. Diner Dash and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood games fill their screens completely, demanding their players’ full attention. Time management games require...
Paranoia lost
...(sometimes laundered as "sharing" and "tolerance"), more subsumption of everyday life by social media. It's a bit like how the internalization of cool into the fashion business means that nothing...
Anger Management
...value beyond this doesn’t exist, clear and simple, it’s the only value that exists. Which is why…I don’t understand how it could have occurred to you to come to this...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Our advice columnist Zahira Kelly specializes in the jolt of recognition that comes from rearranging or inverting mainstream hierarchies. In this month’s column, she dissects the costs of online...