Tag: Elle

Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Bazelon, Alex Ronan, Justine Harman, Emily Harnett, and Sam Leith.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Brittany Packnett, Rahima Nasa, Jordan Smith, Scott Korb, and Chris Heath.

Emily Perper shares their love of dance with five great reads on ballet.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.

How one woman struggled to make sense of the exorcisms she witnessed as a child.

The house at 808 East Lewis Street has helped the upwardly mobile reach for their dreams. It’s also seen great violence.

Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Caity Weaver, Marisa Meltzer, Jiayang Fan, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Jeff Maysh.

Roxane Gay on her new memoir and on gaining acceptance for the female body in every shape and size.

To scientologist Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale speaks to the importance of separation of church and state, rather than the dangers of religious extremism.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.

There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.

Eight must-read essays on how we cook and how we eat.

This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.

Rebecca Solnit is expert at crystalizing common experiences in such a way that lays bare deeply ingrained patriarchal influences

Was the Women’s March “… the most successful protest in U.S. history”?

“Pregnancy is a time of regression. It throws the mind into maturational crisis.”

Ada Calhoun writes, in Elle, about a weekend getaway with her husband to the kind of “romantic” Poconos resort she used to see advertised on television as a kid. Could a couple of nights away from their kid and all the post-election news — not to mention sleeping on a bed beneath a mirrored ceiling, […]

For so long, conversations about money were considered gauche. With every essay and podcast episode, that taboo is broken down.

“One woman [told me] that if she didn’t keep her shackles on, she wouldn’t be able to go to her appointment and [that] other women have been denied access to prenatal vitamins.”

I feel very strongly that almost the entire city has copied my glasses. I went to a fashion show during fashion week, and everyone there had on my eyeglasses. Warby Parker has also copied my eyeglasses. Here’s what started happening: A few years ago, kids—and by which I mean, my friends kids—started coming up to […]

“Burnout happens when you’ve been experiencing chronic stress for so long that your body and your emotional system have begun to shut down and are operating in survival mode.”

Our favorite stories of the week.

A man writes to a convicted killer. Fan letters to a troubled country star. Letters by parents. Here are five stories about the letters we write to one another.