Summer days are ripe with the promise of bonus reading time.

How might we invite more poetry into our lives?

A re-read of Normal People illuminates the brilliance of the new BBC series

Maybe it’s a kind of mid-life crisis, maybe it’s just the timely reboot of High Fidelity, but making playlists has become my latest grasp at journalism.

Life itself is the proper binge, said Julia Child, because of course she did.

Gathering at the table for serious conversations about feminism and food.

Frankly, if you’re not making a wholehearted attempt at reducing your meat consumption these days, I don’t know what you’re doing.

It's no surprise that newly legalized weed has been co-opted for a wholesale brand makeover.

The construct of a 9-to-5 workday is irrelevant and disconnected from the rhythms of our creativity and productivity. Sitting at a desk all day is literally killing us slowly. Our growth conforms to the shape of its container. Well goodbye to all that.

On special occasions, my grandma wore Chanel No. 5, the height of sophistication. When getting ready, she’d give me a tiny spritz “on my pulse points” that I would relish all day, sniffing at my wrists.

“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”

Is it possible to feel growing pains when you’re about to turn 40?

A new wave of super cool, super smart, and super talented women are in formation in kitchens everywhere, rocking their Polka Pants, and I am completely, shamelessly in their thrall.