It’s been hard for critics to write about Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings and Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs without leaving fictional territory a READ MORE >>
Waterworld
Painting Ugly
On Her Own Two Feet
Two Therapies
The Goal Was Greatness
My Big Fat Eco-wedding
I recently downloaded the Real Simple (ha!) 16-month wedding checklist, in advance of my own upcoming nuptials, and was duly appalled, not only by the fact that, six months out, I'm apparently supposed to be booking portable toilets and composing a day-of timeline (isn't that something you do, like, the day of?), but also by the general excess, financial and otherwise, of the whole thing. READ MORE >>
Unintended Metaphor Alert
From Each According To His Ability ...
Amazon Deforestation Even Worse Than We Thought
This is hugely depressing: Despite the Brazilian government's recent crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, rates of deforestation are booming, with far more acreage clear-cut over the last nine months than were torched over the full year before that. READ MORE >>
