This Mother’s Day, we’re spotlighting just a few of our many pieces of writing on motherhood. From "All Fours" to "Mother Media" to mean mommies and more, it's undeniably been an age for the mother.

"Chew-Bose’s directorial debut is a love letter to Sagan’s stifling coming-of-age novella." Gabrielle McClellan watches Durga Chew-Bose’s "Bonjour Tristesse." lareviewofbooks.org/article/becomi…

#sirens is tonally all over the place but in a GREAT way that was, like, very Shakespeare problem play… midsummer night’s dream (definitely) x winter’s tale (maybe)

"With womanhood approaching from one side, the comforts of childhood from the other, Chew-Bose’s Cécile is frozen between two worlds." Read Gabrielle McClellan's review of "Bonjour Tristesse" (2025). lareviewofbooks.org/article/becomi…

Does anyone want to commission me to write about THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB LOOK? Please?

"I can’t tell if there’s something underneath the pageantry that is drawing me in, or if what I’m enjoying are the clear, shallow aesthetics of a television wishing well." Annie Berke-but call me @sayanniething.bsky.social reviews movie, "Materialists," and TV show, "With Love, Meghan." lareviewofbooks.org/article/materi…

In time for the end of the fiscal year, I took account of Severance for Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-pu…

I can’t believe this is the technology we’re going to let destroy the world.

Why should I bother composting my exfoliation wipes now that Leo went to Bezos' wedding?

I went to college and became a college professor (now I’m neither). The pressure to assign less is real. Reading entire novels is a gift, and pretending to have finished novels is a skill. College students should (and need to) do both.

Doing some research… what are some (other) books like NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS and THE MOBIUS BOOK, which is to say novels with two somewhat discrete halves that sort of overlap or connect but you need to do the work to figure out why?

Millennials may be getting older, but our pop culture stays *the same age* (fun, I mean, HELLO, we're the kids of America)... making my DEFECTOR debut with a review essay on "Clueless" -- many, many thanks to my editor Brandy Jensen for her help on this defector.com/ugh-as-if-take…

the cultural literacy required to work at Vogue in the 90s.

If I went around wearing a t shirt that said “I Told You So,” would you think I was referring to Epstein or HBOMax? To be clear, I would mean both.

GILDED AGE and BUCCANEERS both ending their seasons (so long summer)… what should my next period drama be? **extra points for soap and camp!**