Essays

Breaking the Cycle

  My health app starts to crack near day 47 of my menstrual cycle. Since going off hormonal contraception (for good this time!), I’ve started...

The Door Handle

My father appeared in my doorway on the first Monday of the New Year to inform me that my grandfather had died. I responded...

The Architecture of Absence

  “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”  —Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation.  “The way paranoia has of understanding anything is by imitating and embodying it....

Zara Larsson Didn’t Steal My Nani’s Jewelry Box

Somewhere in the internet's collective imagination lives a place called the Khia Asylum—a metaphorical purgatory named after the rapper only known for one song,...

Between Willows and Walls: The 1960s at Eton College

  There’s no doubt that the possibility of enrolment in what is generally considered to be the world’s most renowned public school should be regarded...

Found in Translation: On ‘Heart Lamp’ and Women We Meet Through Other Tongues

Heart Lamp takes you by the hand and plunges you into the tangled chaos of the everyday lives of Muslim women in Karnataka. Where...

The Final Cut of Thomas Shelby

Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 6 of Peaky Blinders "It means you f*** people over. Don't give a f***. Covet and steal and burn all...

Gossip Is Serious Business, says Kelsey McKinney

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “To a philosopher, all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it...

Sunlight, Scandals, and Sea Spray: Summer of ’59

Part One: Juan-Les-Pins--Comic Books, Cold Chicken, and the Hotel Juana The summer vacation that I was fortunate enough to experience, one school term prior to...

Love Through the Looking Glass: Taylor Swift and Referencing the Self

“Lookin’ backwards/ might be the only way to move forward”—Taylor Swift, “The Manuscript”. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”—Lewis Carroll, “Through...