Readings

My Mother's Disappearances

Children like me, whose parents suffer from mental health issues, often become invisible ourselves.

Divining the Secrets of Human Connection

Searching for a meaningful bond among those who are paying to find it. 

What A Bullet Can Do

A shot from my father’s gun killed our neighbor and traced a trajectory through decades of guilt, shame, fear and anger. Unraveling the moment my family calls "the accident."

The Problem of Here

Since returning to New York City, I’ve thought deeply about the ways trauma has estranged me from myself. Growth has meant restoring my relationship with my bodily experience.

Life and Death Online

As more and more friendships are built virtually, we must confront the nuances of grieving someone you've never met in person. 

Under the Hollywood Gaslight

Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.

Luca Guadagnino Is Love

On the aesthetics and sensuality of the Oscar-nominated director behind Call Me By Your Name. 

'The TV Industry is Massively Fracturing': An Interview with Joy Press

The author of Stealing the Show on the provocative power of representation, tracing female characters from Mary Tyler Moore to Broad City's Abbi and Ilana, and why it's strange that we still call it television. 

The Agony of Intimacy

After years struggling with painful vulvodynia, my relationship hit a breaking point. When I finally found help, I had to wonder who I'd be if I had never learned to fear sex.

In the Dark All Katz Are Grey: Notes on Jewish Nostalgia

Searching for where I belong, I find myself cobbling together a sort of mongrel Judaism—half-remembered and syncretic and porous and contradictory and all mine.