Dec 2, 2019

Unfortunately, I Like It Too

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, published in 2017, has been one of the great literary success stories of the Brexit and Trump eras, especially among readers who, ...

Apr 1, 2020

I Celebrate Myself, and Erase Myself

In its broadest sense, a temple is a place devoted to a specific and elevated purpose, one not necessarily limited to the spiritual. Maybe it’s fair to say that what I’ve ...

Jun 1, 2020

Art by Women About Women Making Art About Women

T he first lesbian movie I loved was Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s sumptuous 1994 film starring a young Kate Winslet as a dangerously charismatic schoolgirl who ...

Oct 1, 2020

Bookselling in the End Times…Again

PRINT IS DEAD In his late-fifteenth-century woodcut of a danse macabre, Matthias Huss depicts Death striding into a printer’s shop to remind a bookseller and his colleagues ...