Eliza Dumais

In your ongoing quest to stave off lockdown ennui, you’ve likely attempted a dystopian screenplay draft, a soufflé, a mastery of the trombone — but ha

It’s hardly a stretch to suggest that wine shopping can operate as a unique form of masochism: The towering shelves, the breezy clerk, the siloed-off

These days, Jade Verette is a proud proponent of the 1:30pm cocktail. As a chef-turned-mixologist-turned-podcaster-turned-Culinary-Internet-Person, she’s

Ava DuVernay thinks empathy operates like a habit — some emotional version of muscle memory. It requires maintenance, repetition, routine exercise. 

Contrary to what Internet Culture would have you believe, all the best personal effects rest not in your purse, but on your nightstand. Sure, the “what?

Anthropologists of yore could hardly have predicted that masturbating and bread-baking would serve as summer 2020’s premier pastimes. But in the midst of

Six months ago, you were decades younger, and your concept of “joy” revolved around emphatic discussions carried on in dive bar booths to the tune of j

Friendship, when orchestrated through the blue-lit lens of a Zoom window, can seem a less-than-thrilling exchange. Socializing online and in the flesh are

Let’s take a moment to address the agony, I mean blessing, that is your period. For all the breadth to the canon of available synonyms — Aunt Flo,

For the most part, loneliness has an obvious antidote: human interaction. But for those of us who are single, lonely, and, well, quarantined, casual social

For now, while many of us are confined to our homes, the outside world may be feeling like a fond, distant memory. But there’s something to be said f

Of the 8,760 hours in any given year, each must be dispersed amongst a fairly standard set of categories: Social Affairs, Business, Pleasure, Philanthropy,

Remember that one date with the “method actor” who didn’t believe in tipping? The one with the stand-up comedian who insisted on recordin