‘Panic has its own logic separate from earth-logic; it’s not fear, but another plane, an Upside Down of the mind’

‘In this season of chaos and exhaustion, sometimes exercising one’s hands and feet can be the best way to relieve the steady throb of despair’

‘My sexual education was limited to imagination, Google, the great novels of the mid-twentieth century, and the horny men who wrote them’

‘Roth’s horniness was intertwined with his Judaism in ways I loved, even if I didn’t fully understand them’

‘It is time to recognize that the right to criticize the powerful is sacrosanct’

‘What matters is how we meet these acts: Do we look away in cowardice, or do we respond with a salvo of disgust?’

How a virulently misogynist subculture made its way into the paper of record

The Milo mishegas speaks to an intellectual barrenness at the core of Trump-era conservatism: Having found themselves in political power, they must manufacture a sense of powerlessness

“Stormy was putting a new face to sex work for America: a spiky, thoughtful, unabashed one, demanding to be the subject, not the object, of her narrative”

“Leaving Facebook is a bit like leaving New York — while not yet a classic essay genre, it’s really about leaving a version of who you were”