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Growing up, most of us know we may not snag our dream job or become famous. But a relationship, a family, a place to build a life together—many of us
Giving up dating brings good days and bad. You can’t just stop hoping for a partner on command, after all. In certain moments—on Valentine’s Day, or w
Nobody throws you a shower for becoming self-sufficient. Nobody sends a formal invitation that says: Please join us in celebrating Natalie, who has su
n a global Ipsos poll from last year, about a third of Gen Z men agreed that “a wife should always obey her husband”—more than double the share of Bab
(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices: Me: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same. The boy who will g
Scoffing is the first mistake a woman can make.
The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you. Or perhaps the moral is that brides never fare well in stories, and one should avo
he was on his way to the dump to throw out the drawings and paintings that Julia had made in the months when she was sneaking off to sleep with the ma
Linguistics
Short stories, like middle schoolers, are an awkward size. They don’t fit easily in today’s media landscape.
The short story’s subversive power is inversely correlated to its popularity, even to its academic credibility.
(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices: Me: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the same. The boy who will g
Girlhood
In truth, I hated boys—their bravado and the tangy smell they carried in their skin. I hated their loud voices and growing muscles and how easily they
But I wanted to be like the other girls, the normal girls. I wanted boys to want me before I understood that really, I wanted girls to want me.
Men have treated me like one of the guys, a person so far beyond the reach of their desires as to be just like them. Women have treated me like one of
Menopause is, technically, a year after your last period so I don’t know if I am in menopause. I’m hovering in yet another stasis, wondering if a sign
It was reading that made me realize that I could change the story, because I am the story.
how I find meaning in my life. My answer was that you have to start by respecting yourself and then go on respecting yourself every single day. Not to
In particular, Ronson focuses on a demographic whose life expectancy has dropped in the 21st century: middle-aged white men without college degrees, m
. Decades of waiting go by until you reach middle age and are forced to ask yourself, “When will I really start living?”
In an 1835 parliamentary motion, Ewart argued that, to compete with France, Britain needed to find “the best means of extending a knowledge of the Fin
our rules: Stand behind every sentence in a document as your own thinking, not just what a model spit out. Writing is thinking, so skipping the proces
Yesterday, the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia promo poster came out and it looked like AI, so they had to post something showing all the Photoshop
Much like turning a home into a financial product also hurts homeowners, it’s probably not great for your soul to be in it for the love of words and t
We are not self-made in our tastes; instead, we move through an infinitely expanding landscape of information and objects, guided by the people we mee
Pagliarulo’s Oleszko show was only the third exhibition he had ever mounted by himself, and it was all the result of cold emailing the artist about a
There's a difference between an endless supply of content and works that require time, talent, risk and intention to create.A society in which everyon
exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory
Communities require tending: moderation, strategy, rituals, leaders, onboarding and programming, and conflict resolution.
For creators whose work depends on relationships — if your audience learns together, solves problems together, shares an identity, or wants to meet on
Fast fashion and mall brands used to look to the runways for inspiration. Now, much of their output has been slopified by back-end data and internet s
In an 1835 parliamentary motion, Ewart argued that, to compete with France, Britain needed to find “the best means of extending a knowledge of the Fin
I have always thought that there was nothing braver than leading a creative life first. And I mean a life: not a make-a-living.
“One good thing about being a woman is we haven’t too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me” - Sheila Heti
Perhaps gumption, common sense and entrepreneurship - the things I have often been rewarded for - are the antonyms to creativity.
Every big industry that produces creative work, or funds creative work, has a risk-taking problem. They do not want to take a risk on something unless
Fast fashion and mall brands used to look to the runways for inspiration. Now, much of their output has been slopified by back-end data and internet s
We may wear skinny jeans one decade and wide ones the next, but the elevation of corporations over designers has been the industry’s overarching trend
Part of me wants to just blame the internet and call it a day. And by the way, it is the internet’s fault: When you can order a cheap facsimile of any
But I think this whole business hurts more than the eyes. The subcultures of my youth were a sort of surrogate extended family. In a society jettisoni
While it’s often assumed to be consumed passively, people who truly love the genre engage with it through a far more analytical lense. With a whole on
At a time of divisive politics, there’s a comfort in seeing real people resolve their differences and find their shared humanity.”
“How do you face the future when it is so totally unpredictable? There is something really useful emotionally as well as intellectually about understa
But I think this whole business hurts more than the eyes. The subcultures of my youth were a sort of surrogate extended family. In a society jettisoni
contemporary life
Prayer is unsanitary. It’s messy. It’s real-talk.
reports of unexpected mental clarity in gravely ill people. Evidence of such events existed going back to antiquity, but the phenomenon had been large
The two popes shared the same underlying concern: if we do not decide otherwise, our technologies will amplify a political economy of violence, injust
this is very much a summer of sport.
I bet you can't find another sporty read that includes Lady Gaga
By the age of 14, girls drop out of sports at twice the rate of boys, due to factors like social expectations, lack of investment in quality programme
ESPN profiled mediocre basketball player and rage-baiter extraordinaire, Sophie Cunningham, and there was a lot to dislike about the profile. Even the
When politics is understood primarily as an expression of individual morality, collective action becomes extraordinarily difficult – because a person’
But one’s personal morality is no substitute for shared solidarity. Solidarity is the recognition of our interdependence
From 2012 to 2025, support for religious people in government ticked above 50 percent in just two of the countries, Jordan and Morocco. Support for cl
When the East Asian economies began pulling off these rapid leaps from postwar devastation to global tech-dominance, it shook the West hard. None pred
I spent so much time worried about money when I was younger that now that I make more money than I ever thought I would, the gift I’ve given to myself
We think of ourselves as consumers – not just of goods, but of political identities – expressing who we are through what we buy and the language we us
