Julia Fox Didn’t Want to Be Famous

Julia Fox, an iconoclast in a generation notably lacking them, is most famous for what might be the least interesting thing about her—her brief, ultra-publicized relationship (of sorts) with Kanye West, in 2022. She’s also an actress (the role that she played in “Uncut Gems” took inspiration from her) and a downtown It-Girl-of-all-trades: she designed a fashion line, self-published photography books, and once put on an art show with canvasses painted in her own blood. She’s now a podcast host, a single mother to a toddler, and a staple of the New York paparazzi diet, regularly appearing in outfits that sound as though they were generated by pervy A.I. (“Julia Fox Wore a See-Through Outfit Made Entirely of Condoms”—InStyle.) With her new memoir, “Down the Drain,” Fox has become a writer, telling her story with a kind of dissociated, deadpan sweetness born of having experienced several lifetimes’ worth of adventure and disaster by the age of thirty-three.