Astrology Year Zero
This essay was due on November 6, 2018, but I didn’t finish it on time.
Lauren Oyler
Lauren Oyler is a writer living in New York. You can find her on Twitter @laurenoyler.
Habitual User
What is it about social media that’s so depressing? I’m asking for myself. And I mean beyond the obvious: that much of the imagery and information presented there accelerates suffering and despair; that many people who use it are themselves plainly, often explicitly ...
Motherhood!
May 1, 2018
Sheila Heti's Motherhood is indeed a political novel. But it may not be about motherhood.
The Screwer and the Screwed
The situation may be OK, but it’s certainly not good.
The Thou of Zadie Smith
February 6, 2018
In Feel Free, Zadie Smith's first nonfiction collection, the author courts the paradox of infinite subjects.
The Miseducation of Lady Bird
November 15, 2017
Greta Gerwig's much-praised "Lady Bird" puts us all in a teenage wasteland.