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Why true crime isn't real
As a writer of murder mysteries, I often joke that making these stories believable requires making them profoundly unrealistic — simply because actual crimes and the investigation thereof have a way of...
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What Playboy got right about men
Once upon a time, no conversation about Playboy magazine was complete without a jab at the oft-repeated claim by certain men to read it for the articles — which was broadly understood to be nonsense,...
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Why heartbreak is good for you
It’s remarkable, if you think about it, how much of what we call “society” is about building containers of various shapes and sizes, both literally and figuratively. The houses that shelter us from the...
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Can we forgive Olivia Nuzzi?
In 2011, the online lifestyle magazine xoJane launched a much-lauded — and, later, much-parodied — personal essay series called “It Happened to Me”. The authors of these essays were always young,...
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Why men hate short hair
Long before she finds herself devouring raw meat in a pregnant fugue state, or tormented by bizarre dreams in which she’s doing the horizontal mambo with the devil, the titular protagonist of...
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Gwyneth Paltrow never grew up
Gwyneth Paltrow is not much for confrontation, which is to say, if she doesn’t like you, she probably won’t tell you to your face. Instead, her signature move is as follows: she’ll wait until your back...
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How Trump lost the Epstein truthers
Not since Jack Nicholson screamed, “You can’t handle the truth!”, at a young, unspoiled Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men has there been a meltdown like the ongoing imbroglio in Trumpworld, after the...
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How to win American citizenship
Etched on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty is Emma Lazarus’s 1883 poem “The New Colossus”: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses Yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse...
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America’s baby boom is doomed
One of the most trenchant lines from the 2004 film Mean Girls is spoken not by any of the girls but by one of their adult male teachers. “Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die,” he...
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Laura Loomer is degrading politics
One of comedy’s greatest stock characters is the guy who’s his own worst enemy. You know the type: Kramer from Seinfeld; Michael Scott from The Office; the fanatical Wile E. Coyote who stalks the...
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The age of the prude is over
It was just last spring when a viral video of a bouncing, scantily clad Sydney Sweeney was heralded by the Right-wing internet as an early harbinger of the coming vibe shift. “Wokeness is dead,”...
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Why the Left always takes the MAGA bait
The current state of the American political discourse is best understood through the lens of the 1987 movie The Princess Bride — or more specifically, one scene therein. It’s the part where Miracle Max...
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How DEI is harassing yoga
A man named Javier urgently needs my help. He’s just hired a new associate named Raphael at the company where he works as a manager. Raphael is openly gay, which Javier is fine with, he quickly assures...
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Kamala Harris, triumphant cat lady
For all the firsts that Kamala Harris represents as a presidential candidate, there’s one part of her identity that seems to both inflame her opponents and energise her supporters like none other. If...
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In defence of pick-up artistry
To say that The Game has aged badly would be to understate how outrageous it was even in its own time: 20 years ago, just as women had finally become empowered to pursue sex on its own merits, and on...
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Why Ozempic is cheating
Ten years ago, I was moved to tears by a fruit salad. I was on a stationary bicycle at the gym, half-heartedly scrolling Tumblr while my feet pushed the pedals, and suddenly, there it was: a tapestry...
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Polyamory is a luxury belief
What happens when the fantasy of getting everything you want collides with cold, hard reality? Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility attempts to answer that question by plotting the love lives of two...
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In defence of grumpy old men
In every culture, in every era, you will find the archetype of the cantankerous old man. He’s ubiquitous in cinema — the aged, scowling hero of Gran Torino; the feuding codgers of Grumpy Old Men; the...
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Millennials are rebranding the menopause
There’s a scene in Sunset Boulevard in which Norma Desmond, the former silent film star, is watching a movie in her Hollywood mansion. It’s one of her own movies, of course — they’re all she ever...
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Women are losing the abortion election
Ever since the Dobbs decision redefined the reproductive rights of American women, the issue of choice has started to resemble a frantic game of ping-pong. In red states, Republican-controlled senates...
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