“You can wear something to be cool,” you told me, “or because another person likes it. You don’t have to be truly ‘yourself,’ or whatever.”
Cassandra Neyenesch
Cassandra Neyenesch is the author of Euphemia Fan: Spy Girl (Full Fathom Five, 2014) and the forthcoming novel Owl Canyon. She is also founding director of Abortion Stories: An Interactive Arts Festival, which will take place in New York on May 6-8. She has written art and book reviews for Art in America, The Guardian, the Brooklyn Rail, and many other publications. 
How Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” Misses the Mark
When in December I heard an interview with Greta Gerwig on All Things ...
Taking a Nine-Year-Old to See “The Danish Girl”
I decided about a year ago, when my younger child turned eight, that Pixar and I were calling it quits. Don’t get me wrong, Up and Toy Story were great, but given the choice between a real movie and ...
A Small, Simple Stone: Looking for Barbara Pym in Oxfordshire
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. In the summer of ‘14, as my family was planning a trip to England, I learned that I ...
Murakami on Friendship
It might be fair to say that Haruki Murakami has had two narrative modes in his novels and short stories. Works like Norwegian Wood (1987) illustrate his “normal” mode, in which he recounts a ...
That Silver Building on Powers
East Williamsburg is fast becoming one of the most dramatically gentrified neighborhoods of Brooklyn, with glass-fronted condo buildings shooting up in their narrow lots like beanstalks in a ...
Déjà Vécu
Kate Atkinson has had an intriguing literary career. After winning popular and critical success with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995), and a Whitbread Prize, she spent most of ...