...which is to say, I'll no longer be posting here. But don't worry, the Rainbow Chronicles aren't dead! We've ju...

Leonard Cohen made it hard for me to work today. This Monday started like many do in late September—sun pouring through the leaves, green ...

  In case you had forgotten that last night, FEMINIST flashed in giant words behind the "greatest living entertainer" during ...

I’ve been writing a lot of emails to myself lately. Mostly, I’m sending articles, essays, and short stories, but I’m also sending notes, quo...

[via here ] I can’t stop thinking about this New Yorker article I read last week, “Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy,” by Joshua Rothma...

“Break my legs so I won’t walk to you/Cut my tongue so I can’t talk to you/Burn my skin so I can’t feel you/Stab my eyes so I can’t see” F...

“And what about those who don’t have a mother?” — “The Unmothered,” by Ruth Margalit , The New Yorker, May 9, 2014 Last week an acquain...