Culture

I’ve had this letter planned since the first quarter of 2025, but now that it’s time to write it, I have no idea how to do so without going blind from gazing too intently at my own navel. (Nevertheless, she persisted.) At the start of this year, I color-coded a blank editorial calendar. Every empty […]

I woke up Saturday morning eager to clean my apartment.  My excitement surprised me. Six months earlier, I had resigned myself to the idea that a smaller space meant cleaning professionals were no longer necessary (yet another cost-efficient benefit of downsizing), the way you might resign yourself to getting up early for the gym or […]

Love Is Blind season 9 contestant “Sparkle” Megan Walerius says men are intimidated by her. In her own words: “I’ve done very well for myself professionally. I think it takes a very confident and secure man to be with a woman like me. It’s going to be interesting to navigate, are they just after me […]

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Rich Boy, 1926 “You know how people who come into money suddenly look better?” I texted my friend the other day as I breached the threshold of the grocery store’s automatic doors. “How does that […]