Watching The Bear is guaranteed to make you ravenous—especially if you’re into close-up shots of extremely Chicago-coded meats and breads—but once I’d caught up on the show’s third season this weekend, I found myself hungry for something inedible: namely, more shows about camaraderie forged in the fire of a tumultuous workplace. They didn’t even need … Read more
In The Coin, Yasmin Zaher’s novel about a young Palestinian woman doing her best to build a life that works for her in New York City, cleanliness is, indeed, close to godliness. Zaher’s narrator becomes obsessed with spotlessness and purity even as she gets sucked further and further into chaos while balancing her job teaching … Read more
I love a good historical adaptation (actually, if it’s beautiful and fun enough, I’ve even been known to appreciate a bad historical adaptation, i.e. Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette), so naturally, I was more than ready when I read that My Lady Jane, a historical fantasy-slash-romance series about Lady Jane Grey, was in the works. The … Read more
What I love most about The Crown, especially the early seasons, is that every shot looks like it cost a million dollars. Playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan’s illustrious stab at the inner workings of the most famous, insular, and once-powerful family on the planet never doesn’t look like the real deal. Excellent acting aside (Olivia … Read more
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t experienced imposter syndrome at one point or another. But while it’s commonplace, it’s still a damaging mindset that can hold us back from reaching our potential—particularly when it comes to our careers. We asked Gemma Perlin, a behavioral change coach, to share some practical tips for … Read more
As in Breillat’s previous films, however, a sense of timelessness pervades the aesthetic; the exact year and place are left intentionally unclear. “I don’t want my films to ever be dated,” the director explains. “I choose costumes and haircuts for the actors that don’t go out of style because the emotions they’re expressing don’t go … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I booked a summer trip to Mallorca and Menorca, two of the four main Balearic islands in Spain. Since then, I have done approximately zero things to prepare for my travels except listen to Joni Mitchell’s legendary 1971 album Blue over and over again, specifically the fitting lyrics from her … Read more
The collaboration opened up a Pandora’s Box of sorts. Had Lorde owed Charli an explanation for their dynamic? And how much personal information does an artist owe the public? Has this beef—if that’s even what it was—been one big marketing plan from the jump? Two of Vogue’s staff writers, Emma Specter and Hannah Jackson, convened … Read more
The 77th Annual Tony Awards weren’t short on noteworthy moments, nor did they skimp on fashion. (I’m as obsessed with Jocelyn Bioh’s purple look as I am with Jeremy Strong’s little mustache, albeit in entirely different ways.) Not only were fan-favorite shows including Appropriate, Stereophonic, Suffs, Merrily We Roll Along, and Hell’s Kitchen honored, but … Read more
Are there any resources you recommend for BDSM or kink-curious people who might not see much representation of their desires in their daily lives? Well, there are as many different styles of BDSM as there are people. You know, one thing that I talk about in the book is that sexuality is often siloed in … Read more
