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Zoe Kazan Gives Steinbeck’s Monster, Cathy Ames, a Childhood
Netflix’s seven-part East of Eden, written by Zoe Kazan and starring Florence Pugh, puts Cathy Ames at the…
A $30 Gertrude Abercrombie Just Sold for $1.35 Million
A small 1951 painting of ten shells, picked up at a Michigan estate sale this summer, set the…
Why Does Aging Seem More Serious for a Woman?
Time passes across every face, but not every face receives the same judgment. A man’s gray hair may…
When We Confuse Being Needed with Being Loved
Sometimes we believe that keeping our place in someone’s life requires us to solve, care for, and carry…
There Is Grief in Losing a Friendship, Too
When an important friendship ends, we do not always know how to name what we feel. There was…
The Cost of Looking Naturally Perfect
The beauty we call “natural” often has a routine behind it: products, appointments, clothes, time, and money. There…
Love, Power, and a Twenty-Year Age Gap
When a man chooses a woman twenty years younger than him, we usually look at the woman first:…
Alison Knowles Made a Masterpiece Out of Lunch
The Fluxus artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025) turned a diner lunch, a salad and a computer printout into art.…
Ruth Asawa Was Not Forgotten
The American sculptor showed in three Whitney Annuals in the 1950s and was profiled in Time and Life,…
The Woman That Little Girl Needed
The past is part of our story. It doesn’t have to write the rest of it. By Laura…