All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me
Tolentino explores the recent “Becky With the Bad Grades v. UT Austin” Supreme Court ruling through the lens of her own experience writing college essays for privileged white high school students.
Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks
When an expectant mom learned, at 31 weeks, that her fetus was “incompatible with life,” she flew to Colorado to get a shot that would start the process of a third-trimester abortion, then returned to New York to finish the delivery.
Is This the End of the Era of the Important, Inappropriate Literary Man?
Unpacking the problems around the dynamics between male professors and female students in the literary community, how accusations should be reported, and journalistic responsibility.
What Should We Say About David Bowie and Lori Maddox?
A superb essay by Jia Tolentino about rape and the story of Lori Maddox, who spoke about losing her virginity to David Bowie when she was just 15 years old.
No Offense
“I can’t think of an obligation that feminism ought to have lifted faster than the obligation that a woman construct her life around agreement—and yet, this year, it seems like this is exactly what many people understand feminism, within its own sphere, to be.”
Death to the Maxi Dress: A Manifesto
Writer Sarah Miller expresses her feelings about a certain fashion trend.
Rush After ‘A Rape On Campus’: A UVA Alum Goes Back to Rugby Road
Jia, an alumnus of UVA, visits the campus during rush week after the Rolling Stone rape story controversy.
The Promise in Elena Ferrante
An essay about women’s writing on the internet, Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, and the potential of fiction writing to expose certain truths.
Interview: Dionne Osborne, the Vocal Coach Who Changed Drake’s Style
Osborne, who’s been working with Drake for more than four years, on what it’s like to work with the star—and what it takes to properly care for one’s voice while on tour.
Shit Actually
A scene-by-scene reassessment of Love Actually. It’s not positive:
Okay. Seriously. Is this Colin Firth storyline actually about human trafficking? Colin Firth shows up in France and this woman just gets dropped off at his house and he “falls in love with her” even though they cannot communicate and the only thing he knows about her is that he’s really, really into her butt. But it’s “love”! So he just “has” her now! She’s “his”! Colin Firth decided they should be together without ever saying a single word to each other, and so that’s what happens. Congratulations, now you have a weird stranger who lives in your house and fat-shames you in Portuguese. “Love.”
This entire movie is just straight white men acting upon women they think they “deserve.” This entire movie is just men doing things.
Also, who writes their novel on loose pages on a typewriter in an open-air shack next to a pond?