“Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”
Sara Fredman
The World’s Tallest Dwarf
Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
Lindy West is Preaching to the Choir
Sara Fredman talks to author Lindy West on women and likability, the evolution of pop culture, and navigating conversations in a complex, messy world.Â
How Do You Move Past a Dad?
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
And What of My Wrath?
Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.
Everything is Fine
A personal essay in which Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life, as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
Everything is Fine
Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
Everything is Fine
Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
The Blaming of the Shrew
Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.