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Because Devo Is Cool

On my father’s secret Devo pins, the conceptual weirdness we lost, and the band that has been right since the 70s.

Jun 18

Reporting From Inside the Breakdown

What Gen X learned from the 70s about chaos, selfhood, and the collapse of the American container

May 21

Justin Bieber Is Doing a Retrospective and I Need to Lie Down

On Coachella 2026, Trent Reznor at 60, and who gets to be nostalgic.

Apr 21

The Store Is the Point

On shopping IRL, women dressing for each other, and why being in the room still matters.

Apr 16

Wherever You Go, There You Are

On reinvention, the reinvention trap, and seven years in a pink building in Miami

Mar 24

A Dalí Summer

On surviving the dorm posters, the carousel I cannot stop scrolling, and what a Dalí summer would actually require.

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The Having Is Harder Than the Wanting

On the Knicks, the championship, and what nobody teaches you about receiving the thing you’ve been working toward.

Jun 16

Ten Thousand Hours of Something You Love

On mastery, invisible expertise, and the difference between going higher and going deeper.

Jun 12

It Will Always Be New York or Nowhere

On the Knicks, the city, and what it feels like to want something this badly again

Jun 11

The Master List

Twelve women who picked one thing and went all the way in. A study in dev

Jun 9

A Field Guide to the Lady Bro

How to identify one in the wild. And the harder question, which arrives later and usually at night: whether you qualify.

Jun 4

Nobody Has Ever Looked Better in Cozumel

On the greatest vacation wardrobe of the eighties, and the woman who taught me what effortless looked like before I had the word for it.

Jun 2

Rachel Ward Quit Hollywood. I Quit Botox. We're Both Doing Fine.

On the Thorn Birds star's viral grey-hair moment, the year I stopped getting injections, and what happens to your face when you stop interfering with…

May 28

The Sacred Season

A love letter to summer in the northeast.

May 26