Everybody’s choice for villain of the year, beating out even Charlize Theron’s brilliant and ghastly portrayal of a serial murderer in Monster , is the unseen wife in Lost in Translation . She’s perceived as a domestic witch, obsessed with redecorating her husband’s study while the poor guy is having an existential meltdown halfway around Read More
When I first saw the flyers all over the telephone poles in my neighborhood announcing a community meeting to debate the proposed opening of a transient home for battered women, I didn’t think: “I should go, to stand up for my less fortunate sisters.” I didn’t even worry: “Uh-oh, how will this affect my bourgeois-aspirational Read More
Recently, I was fixed up with a man who announced that he had a stalker. “That’s awful,” I said. “What was she doing?” He told me she had e-mailed him a few times asking questions about the date they went on. I waited for him to continue, but he didn’t. I was intrigued, and I Read More
And so a month has passed. Thirty days that feel like a lifetime. And for a moment-just a moment-maybe it’s time to pause and take stock of who we are, where we are and how we’ve changed.
Or how we haven’t changed.
In the past four weeks, along with the stories of epic Read More
