Nobody's watching me

Books

Number the stars by Lois Lowry

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Sheena Meyer by LB Anne

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

The Viscount who loved me by Julia Quinn

Raybearer by Jordan Ifeuko

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Articles

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declines to condemn phrase ‘Globalize the intifada’

Usha Vance’s Pregnancy Becomes a Talking Point

The Trad Hoe's dilemma

The GOP Women Are Humiliating Mike Johnson

Women and Impossible Decisions in Crime Fiction

There should be a murder in Bridgerton

Ruins in Reverse

How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did

Facebook releases new research into how people respond after a break up

On Anti Political Projects

The crane wife

The trouble with friends

The Addressable Thou

I thought being the low maintenance friend would set me free. Instead, it made me lonelier than ever

How Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica to further his alt-right vision for America

My hard won, useless knowledge

Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?

What made blogging different?

Wuthering Heights Review-Emerald Fennell's astonishingly bad adaptation is like a limp Mills & Boon

America is sliding towards illiteracy

The secret society of lightning strike survivors

Normal Novels

Hades video game commentary

Sleeping with the wizard

How to build a girl in modern America

The joy of reading books you don't entirely understand

On seatbelts and sunsets

A brutal normality: Switzerland's sex market

Creature of the late afternoon

The Other Route

Triumph of the worst

Being a black student in one of Indiana's whitest districts

Henry Ford and Antisemitism

We're Jews in Zohran Mamdani's neighborhood. We love New York-but not like this

Four Antizionist Muslims who became staunch supporters of Israel

I won't vote for Democrats who backed Mamdani. I know I'm not the only one (I am not pro Israel, I just read the last three and wanted to add it to my list of articles that I'd read)

The paranoid style in American politics

An exceedingly historical account of Jumbo, LBJ's very large penis

Caught in the ceasefire

An ancient Israeli law leaves thousands of women chained to their wayward husbands

Nick Fuentes is not just another alt-right boogeyman

Trump, the self-styled 'President of Peace' abroad, makes war at home

How Evie Magazine is packaging sex for the new right

Why are liberals returning to Elon Musk's X?

Women who weave

Upscrolled is a social media haven for unspeakable antisemitism. How does that help Palestinians?

Many Republicans support abortion. Are they switching parties because of it?

How Bridgerton season 4 changes the book's most controversial storyline

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

Parmesan Gnocchi Gratin

Nigella Lawson wants everyone to experience the (thoroughly guilt-free) pleasure of food

On the so called-reading crisis as class warfare

The myth of the red lipped suffragette

What does it mean that the world's biggest live-streamer is broadcasting himself reading

Baby catcher

How far back in time can you understand English?

Clear as cake

Visitations

Poems

Funeral Blues

I felt a funeral, in my brain

For Grace, after a party

To be alive

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

You

What resembles the grave but isn't

Onions

September tomatoes

The Raspberry Room

Blackberrying

From Blossoms

Blackberry picking

Dirty valentine

The 26th birthday poem

Want

I worried

God and a believer take a smoke break

Resume

The orange

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern

Hope you're well, please don't read this

On Valentine's day

On watching a parent age

Dead friends

Everything all at once

The summer you learned to swim

Small town English teacher

Hum, hum

The morning after

In the same space

Little things

Knowledge

A mid-sky February dance

Winter stars

Wound

January

Prayer/Oracion

Necromance

Intimacy

I loved you before I was born

Books

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Articles

How to be a good man

Ghosts

Peep show

The day the children left

Meet the Ancient Ancestor of Mac and Cheese-and cook it yourself

Enjoy your chocolate and champagne while it lasts

Love and Sustenance: Why Indian Mothers Obsess Over Feeding Our Kids

I moved my miso paste to the front of the fridge and it changed my morning routine more than any alarm or productivity app ever did.

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Zoo

Sympathy for wild girls

An Interview with Richard Siken

Love and P.O.P (pleasure or pain)

Portrait of the mythical man in finance

‘The most violent attack ever documented’: Five female bonobos kill a male, challenging beliefs about the species’ peaceful nature

When a Book Cover Designer Writes a Book, Who Designs the Cover?

American Woman doll? Samantha is getting a grown-up novel.

Strippers, coffins, and black arm bands: how Cambridge reacted to the admission of female students

Larry Sultan on the Role of Ambiguity in Art

A Mirror to Society: On Lee Friedlander’s Many American Christmases

Alice Waters on the Benefits of Making School Lunches With Local Ingredients

Why Are We So Obsessed With Avocados?

Little Meals for Little Ones: On the Joys of Sharing the Kitchen With Children

How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife

The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists

What are internet cookies

A modern take on a Palestinian classic

Eating Your Words: In Defense of Writing Without a Recipe

Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread: A Sweet Taste of Nostalgia

Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day

Animal Rights Are Women’s Rights: Why British Suffragettes Went Vegetarian

We are all confident idiots

Why go out?

The golden quarter

What makes us happy?

On keeping a notebook

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

How not to talk to your kids

Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good?

The men who like women and the men who don't

The real secret of the lives of Mormon wives is.... internalized misogyny

Attitude

The place to disappear

Burial At Sea: The Odyssey of JFK's Original Casket

Poems

At twenty eight

The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once

Persimmons

One Heart

This hour and what is dead

Postscript

A final thing

Telemachus' detachment

Meditations on the sufferings and deaths of others

While everything else was falling apart

Untitled

Books

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Jeeves Omnibus #4 by PG Wodehouse

Articles

After My Mother’s Death, I Had to Learn How to Dress

Why plain old vanilla is the world's favorite ice cream flavor

Poems

Wildness Before Something Sublime by Leila Chatti

Books

Jeeves Omnibus #2 by PG Wodehouse

Jeeves Omnibus #5 by PG Wodehouse

Jeeves Omnibus #1 by PG Wodehouse

At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

The Body in the library by Agatha Christie

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

A murder is announced by Agatha Christie

The 13 problems by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Emma by Jane Austen

Articles

The Power of Exposure by Derek Thompson

Go Ahead and Ban My Book by Margaret Atwood

Servants: A life below stairs

Regency Servants: Maid of All Work

All That Glitters Is Edible Gold and Silver

The Victorian Domestic Servant

Containment and Freedom: In Praise of the Boarding School Novel

The quiet grief of adult friendship

Breakfast For Optimists: How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg

Stop Coping About TikTok

A day in the life of a prison librarian

The cult of can't

My hard-won, useless knowledge

The Orthodox Twitter Revenge Porn Meltdown

Almost a Teen‐Ager, Caroline Kennedy Talks About Her Life

Love & P.O.P. (Pleasure Or Pain)

Marilyn Monroe Was a Voracious Reader, Despite Her Near-Debilitating Imposter Syndrome

When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

Poems

So what

Mothers

Drunk in a car

Magdalene the addict

Books

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Articles

From mammy to Ma: Hollywood’s favorite racist stereotype

Please, No More Disaffected White Girls

Marriage and the Maiden Name

Aja Gabel on Love and Grief

How Republicans became the party of raunch

The Color of St. Patrick’s Day Wasn’t Always Green

Emma Woodhouse is a Lovable Heroine (to me, at least)

I’ve Got a Headache… Now What? ~ A Look at Regency Pain Medicine

Spring’s Sweetest Jelly Calls for Hundreds of Dandelions

The Unlikely Hit That’s Popularizing a Whole New Type of Novel

Putting gay men back into history

Wedding Dresses

The Most Beautiful Dress

Rose City, City of Roses

Comparisons as predictable as the sunrise

What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel

What Science Journalism Taught Me About Writing Fiction

An Interview with Marjane Satrapi

The Origins of LGBTQ-Affirming Churches

Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

The Science Behind Why Cats Love Catnip

Seven Books You’ll Never Outgrow

Poems

Against Empire

Buying stock