In 2026, I plan to fail spectacularly at constant self-improvement by choosing joy, rest, and dessert.

the silencing of the rents

I write about books, family, love, sex, and culture—subjects I will never see as soft, silly, or, ugh, just for the girls. For almost twenty years, I ran All About Romance, one of romance’s essential institutions, a place where the genre was taken seriously without anyone having to pretend we loved the latest unreadable Booker…

thin is in and that’s not good

and, yes, I’m definitely impatient

the women are killing it