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Author Archive

  • Aug 17, 2026
    New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv has built a reputation writing probing profiles of overworked nurses, wronged women, and toxic mothers. 
  • Aug 14, 2026
    When Lena Dunham first met her future husband, she told him two things: “I was sick, and people did not like me. If he could be comfortable with those two immutable truths,...
  • Aug 6, 2026
    When the world needed Phoebe Bridgers the most, she vanished. It’s been six years since she released her breakout hit album Punisher and charmed the world in a skeleton onesie....
  • Jul 20, 2026
    When The Guest took the Hamptons by storm, many considered Emma Cline to have crafted the book of the summer. “People scour the pages to catch a glimpse of a version of their...
  • Jul 16, 2026
    How sexy is a pop star really allowed to be? Not very, if recent controversies about the male gaze are anything to go by. Serving cunt must be completely asexual to be socially...
  • Jun 11, 2026
    There are precious few “ambiguous monument[s]” still standing. Many periodicals like Lionel Trilling’s beloved Partisan Review are now extinct. The wages of the...
  • May 26, 2026
    Katherine Packert Burke’s second novel All Us Saints is structured like a chamber play. Trading in the autofictional, referential, hyper-contemporary context of her first...
  • Apr 7, 2026
    Would you fuck Ben Lerner? Or perhaps "Adam," the autofictional protagonist of Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka School who also appears as "Ben"...
  • Mar 2, 2026
    The antidote to oversharing has arrived. Vagueposting is anything I want to hear, oversharing is anything I don’t want to hear. For years, the personal essay industrial complex...
  • Feb 23, 2026
    Why is the Right so appealing to young women novelists? The protagonists of Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth and Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs are enamored...