The red-pilled among us might argue that the Pleats themselves made me trans.
September 16, 2022

Miyake’s Layers
Contemporary fashion often seems to be in mourning for itself
Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to proliferate in mollusks like scallops, mussels and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad toxicities of microplastics, I was most tickled to learn that they are estrogenic and lower sperm count; the red-pilled among us might argue that the Pleats themselves made me trans.

Shadow and Light
On Deborah Levy
There is something to the way Levy writes that makes one believe she could hear, see, read, or experience anything and say: OK. She offers many interpretations, but few judgments and even fewer conclusions. Her loyalties are total and her betrayals are final.
May 2, 2016

May Day
Will these hardworking and well-financed people pull off their lavish social event in time?
July 10, 2014

Mark Me Up, Mark Me Down
“Be. Better,” he says, something Ruth is already trying her hardest to be.
The people who succeed in retail are the people who succeed at mirroring the desires and demands of their customers and their bosses simultaneously. Ruth is not that employee.