personal essay

How movies brought me back to myself: A personal essay on how cinema saved my life

There’s a certain exhaustion that comes with modern film discourse. Open any social media app after a major release and you’ll inevitably see somebody proclaiming a film the “best movie ever made” or the “worst thing ever created” within approximately six minutes of leaving the cinema. Every reaction has become immediate hyperbole. Every opinion has…

Read more
Quietly Hostile

Book Review: Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile is a joyful exercise in oversharing

Quietly Hostile is Samantha Irby‘s fourth collection of hilarious, off-the-wall personal essays. Almost blog-style in its randomness, each chapter takes us on a journey through a variety of Irby’s loves, hates, flights of fancy, reimagined TV episodes, lists of food, embarrassing anecdotes, and misadventures in bodily functions that will give you whiplash as they switch…

Read more