Tag: The Cut

Patrick Burleigh carried an extremely rare genetic mutation, which brought on puberty prematurely.

“We are experts in our own lives, but ignored by the world at large.”

This week, we’re sharing stories from Nell Boeschenstein, Hannah Giorgis, David Davis, Chris Randle, and Kelly Conaboy.

As Caitlin Moran explains, there are Bad Men, and then there are Badly Educated Men.

More families are having only two children, leaving an entire culture to fade away: middleborns.

The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.

In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Pao reveals the harassment and discrimination she experienced at a Silicon Valley venture firm.

Despite a high demand for it, plus-size fashion has been largely neglected and poorly executed by major brands. But that’s starting to change.

Gabrielle Bellot explores the original inspiration for Betty Boop—a black jazz singer with an iconic style and voice.

Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”

It took Leah Carroll years to determine that her mother was murdered by an organized crime syndicate as a suspected drug informant.

I used the seven deadly sins–lust, gluttony, envy, greed, sloth, pride, and anger — as the springboard for choosing these stories. 1. LUST: “Eileen Myles on the Excruciating Pain of Waiting for Love.” (Eileen Myles, The Cut, February 2016) Poet and novelist Eileen Myles muses on a summer fling that should’ve lasted forever. 2. GLUTTONY: […]

At The Cut, Emily Gould profiles Cat Marnell, the famously self-destructive former beauty editor who miraculously managed to complete a compelling, well-written memoir, How to Murder Your Life — despite first blowing her entire advance on drugs.

Discussing how privilege factors into Gilbert’s story and success.

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.

Time for flip-flops, sunscreen, and, of course, summer reading.

This week, I’ve collected stories about new moms, missing moms, dead moms and boomer moms, if only to demonstrate that there is no one way to have a mother or not have a mother.

These stories offer a glimpse into the weird world of “professionalism,” how young women are expected to adapt to rapidly changing, innately biased work environments.

Revel in all the feels with these 14 (get it?) essays and interviews.

From The Cut’s excerpt of Mike Albo’s funny, touching, all-around excellent new Kindle Single, Spermhood.

But one white female privilege had always been withheld from the girls of Negroland. Aside from the privilege of actually being white, they had been denied the privilege of freely yielding to depression, of flaunting neurosis as a mark of social and psychic complexity. A privilege that was glorified in the literature of white female […]

Moving is on my mind, so here are five essays about relocating, repacking, and rearranging.

Now that we’ve all had a chance to finish watching Orange is the New Black (who am I kidding — we all binge watched it in a day or two, right?), I thought I’d share four pieces that clarify and critique the way prison is represented on the show. The first two pieces cover season one, for […]

From New York magazine and The Cut, an essay from Sasha Sagan about the lessons that her father, astronomer and author Carl Sagan, taught her. Here, Sasha recalls what her parents told her when she went through what she describes as a “mini existential crisis”: “You are alive right this second. That is an amazing […]