There is a guy on the new (and very good) Showtime docuseries Couples Therapy I have not been able to stop thinking about since watching it. His name is Mau, and though he appears to be well into his 40s, he is obsessed with his birthday. He comes into the therapist’s office complaining that his […]
Follow Me is a weeklong series about personal brands, for better or for worse. A few weeks ago, the Cut’s social media editor, Nana Agyemang, sent me a link to an Instagram profile. “I’m obsessed with this couple,” she wrote in all caps. “I think they live in Paris? Maybe Spain? I can’t tell.” Click Here: […]
I’ve never gotten into Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The few times I watched was like baking very antagonizing bread. Almost nothing happened, but there was so much to respond to. To ward off the program’s characteristic blankness, my head filled up with a running commentary; I could not quiet it. Which is why I […]
On Wednesday morning, the skies opened, and a mysterious figure emerged … from where? Heaven? Hell? Another dimension? It took the shape of a man, one who looks uncannily familiar, but is impossible to place. Was he everyone, or no one? As soon as one gazed at his face, it seemed to disappear, our human […]
It’s almost Thanksgiving, and in my world that means hanging on a couch in elastic-waistband pants. Same goes for the entire month of December. But if you’re in Burberry’s world — the world they constructed for their festive campaign this year — it means something a little different. It means wearing a white silk dress […]
At the top of the escalator in the new Nordstrom flagship on 57th Street is a pair of Manolo Blahnik pumps. You know the ones: those bedazzled blue satin heels Carrie Bradshaw made famous. Sitting there, front and center, they serve as a strategic reminder that New York department stores were once the stage of […]
This holiday season Meghan and Harry are switching up their Christmas schedule, The Sun reports. A source told the tabloid that the royal couple plans to pass on the usual Sandringham festivities because they “need some time away to recharge and decide their plans for next year.” This would seem like a perfectly reasonable choice […]
Every so often, someone who knows how to cook eagerly informs me that I could easily make one of my favored store-bought treats myself. Usually I am not interested, because the whole point of liking the treat is that I like it as is, and not in some allegedly superior, more wholesome form. (See, for […]
My daughter made it clear that the food and activities at her birthday were far less important than the rose-gold-glitter curtain and HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner in front of which she and her guests would take photos of themselves for Instagram. But it was windy that day: The curtain was gathering in clumps like rose-gold seaweed, […]
Follow Me is a weeklong series about personal brands, for better or for worse. When New York–based couple Bryan Reisberg and Alex Garyn got a corgi puppy, Maxine, in 2016, they did what most of us would do: They created an Instagram account for her. Being film buffs, they chose the handle @madmax_fluffyroad (at the […]