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Jul 31, 2026
“In the end,” the omniscient narrator of 1984 explains, “the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”
So it goes...
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Jul 17, 2026
There’s a certain type of horror story that begins with a knock at the door.
A stranger stands on your threshold, waiting to be asked in. And so you invite him to enter your...
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Jun 4, 2026
I. I Hate This Story
I mean, I really, really hate this story.
I hate it because it’s stupid, first and foremost. Any time I’m asked to tell it, I’m always...
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May 28, 2026
From the beginning, Belle Burden’s memoir, Strangers, was the stuff that middle-aged female nightmares are made of. A high-flying woman who had it all—beauty, money,...
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Apr 13, 2026
Once upon a time, no conversation about Playboy magazine was complete without a jab at the oft-repeated claim by certain men to read it for the articles — which was broadly...
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Apr 1, 2026
A couple years ago, a group of freshmen at a college in Massachusetts staged a To Catch a Predator-style sting of a so-called “pedophile.” Their target: a 22 year-old...
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Mar 11, 2026
“If you think I have been brainwashed and I am secretly miserable, I simply do not know what to tell you.”
So proclaims the final chapter of Adult Braces, a new...
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Mar 9, 2026
There’s a scene in My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the novel by Otessa Moshfegh, where the protagonist takes a dump on a piece of modern art. That’s not a euphemism:...
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Jan 30, 2026
Somewhere in the middle of my multiday bingewatch of Bridgerton—the sexy Netflix period drama which returns today for its fourth season—I started thinking about the...
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Jan 26, 2026
There’s a dad out there who I think about sometimes. Not my dad, to be clear; just a dad—a man I’ve never met, whose existence I’m only...
Jul 31, 2026“In the end,” the omniscient narrator of 1984 explains, “the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” So it goes...
Jul 17, 2026There’s a certain type of horror story that begins with a knock at the door. A stranger stands on your threshold, waiting to be asked in. And so you invite him to enter your...
Jun 4, 2026I. I Hate This Story I mean, I really, really hate this story. I hate it because it’s stupid, first and foremost. Any time I’m asked to tell it, I’m always...
May 28, 2026From the beginning, Belle Burden’s memoir, Strangers, was the stuff that middle-aged female nightmares are made of. A high-flying woman who had it all—beauty, money,...
Apr 13, 2026Once upon a time, no conversation about Playboy magazine was complete without a jab at the oft-repeated claim by certain men to read it for the articles — which was broadly...
Apr 1, 2026A couple years ago, a group of freshmen at a college in Massachusetts staged a To Catch a Predator-style sting of a so-called “pedophile.” Their target: a 22 year-old...
Mar 11, 2026“If you think I have been brainwashed and I am secretly miserable, I simply do not know what to tell you.” So proclaims the final chapter of Adult Braces, a new...
Jan 30, 2026Somewhere in the middle of my multiday bingewatch of Bridgerton—the sexy Netflix period drama which returns today for its fourth season—I started thinking about the...
Jan 26, 2026There’s a dad out there who I think about sometimes. Not my dad, to be clear; just a dad—a man I’ve never met, whose existence I’m only...