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  • We All Want to Live in the Golden Girls House—Don’t We?

    A house filled with one’s closest friends living together and caring for each other as senior citizens is deeply comforting

    Jan 23 - Corina Zappia
    Books & Culture Three women sitting, drinking tea, and one standing

    I Brought My Kids On Tour For A Book About Motherhood

    Having my children in the room transformed my events into live enactments of the main ideas in “Mom Rage”

    Jan 18 - Minna Dubin
    Books & Culture A woman in a white shirt sticks up her middle finger and sneers.

    How Anthony Veasna So’s Unfinished Novel “Straight Thru Cambotown” Became a Collection

    So's writing is boisterously funny sparklingly real, and spectacularly alive

    Jan 11 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business A blank sheet of ruled paper on top of printed pages

    My Mom Rage Is a Response to the Avalanche of Worry That Comes With Parenting

    When my daughter was born I became obsessed with all the ways I might lose her

    Jan 4 - Jill Kolongowski
    Books & Culture Woman pulling hair and screaming

    It’s Just My Memoir, B*tch

    For years I rarely shared my thoughts and feelings outside the pages of my journal

    Dec 14 - Delia Bennett
    Books & Culture A father, daughter, and mother standing in doorway of yellow house

    What the Real Housewives Franchise Tells Us About the Triumphs and Pitfalls of Modern Feminism

    Rewatching Bravo's landmark reality TV show felt like reliving my own life

    Dec 12 - Anna Sims
    Books & Culture

    Before 2016 I Dated Republicans Without Much Shame

    We all like to think we can influence our partner’s political views but “Everything’s Fine” tells a different story

    Dec 6 - Ginny Hogan
    Books & Culture Two hands reaching for each other

    My Love for “Frankenstein” Taught Me To Let The Monsters Be Damned

    I was looking for a father to love me anywhere I could find

    Oct 31 - Addie Tsai
    Books & Culture A group of hands reaching up into the air

    I Loved “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Before I Loved Myself

    With each rewatch, I got further from the me I was in high school and closer to my truest self

    Oct 26 - Zefyr Lisowski
    culture A woman screaming with blood on her body

    I Survived a Lot of Edwards and Now I’m Team Bella

    I wonder how many of us end up marrying our Edwards because we don’t see another path for ourselves

    Oct 25 - Caitlin M. Andrews
    Books & Culture Twilight's Edward and Bella laying on the ground

    I Was Too Quick To Call Out Cultural Appropriation

    George Harrison went from chief villain to unlikely hero in my story of how Indian music came to the West

    Oct 24 - Kavita Das
    culture George Harrison in a car

    Joan Didion, Meet Seema Patel

    “And Just Like That” portrays a loneliness that isn’t empowering or aspirational or beautiful

    Oct 19 - Kelsey Shelton
    Books & Culture Seema and Carrie from “And Just Like That” standing in the rain with umbrellas
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