As far as marketing buzzwords go, “ethical” has become a popular one. We love the idea of an "ethical" business. We love to read books that will help us be, or at least appear, more...
So here’s the deal — I am alive today because of black men. I am a functioning human being and a relatively capable mother because of black men. Black male doctors, to be specific. The people...
If you believe in science, you are probably groaning under the weight of conspiracy theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic — just as I am. If I wanted to have a competition about it, I’d...
Twin Peaks is a good show to revisit in the middle of a global public health crisis — if only because its audiovisual iconography perfectly reflects the dark, absurd time that we are living in....
Margarita Mikhailovna, or Babusia, as we all called her, was my last remaining grandparent. She passed away last week at the age of 90. My cousin was supposed to help Babusia video chat with me from...
Whenever I wake up from a good dream these days, there is that moment of lag. The birds will be singing, there will be sunlight in the window, or else rain whispering against the glass. I will...
The last time I was kissed by a man, it felt like the end of a chapter, the kind you pause over, time thickening around you, feeling the story settle in your bones like radiation. I knew it would be...
“I want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe I want to live on the Upper East Side And never go down in the street” — Warren Zevon It’s bizarre to be writing a...
Well, the world is ending — again — and we are being told to hoard our medicine. This is not going to work out very well now, is it? This is what author Andrea Phillips had to point out on...
One of the reasons why progressives frequently irk me — besides the quite natural situation in which familiarity breeds contempt — has to do with how mental anguish and even victimhood can be...
