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Early on in 3 Women by Robert Altman (1977), Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek decide to become roommates.
Aug 18, 2025 • Miri
Head troubles
Lately, I keep having this recurring disembodied vision where I am floating in a large calm body of water, Ophelia style.
Jun 15, 2025 • Miri
Negative options
There is a scene in the underrated 2000s rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic where the titular shopaholic, Rebecca Bloomwood, squints at a credit card…
Apr 16, 2025 • Miri
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Laissez Faire Femininity
Nov 27, 2023 • Miri
Social Life
Feb 25, 2025 • Miri
Revenge of the girl
Dec 20, 2023 • Miri
On loneliness
Nov 19, 2024 • Miri
On beauty
Mar 7, 2024 • Miri
abject women
Dec 14, 2022 • Miri
Baby fever
This summer, my sister is having a baby, which means that for the first time, I will be an aunt.
Apr 14, 2025 • Miri
Social Life
When I was an undergraduate, I took a comparative literature seminar where we read, among other introductory works of literary theory, T.S. Eliot’s 1944…
Feb 25, 2025 • Miri
Women in power
I went to see Babygirl on Christmas Day.
Jan 2, 2025 • Miri
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My boyfriend told me the other day that lists are kind of fascist. Still, I persevere.
Dec 4, 2024 • Miri
On loneliness
“I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness,” declares the narrator at the start of Borges’s short story “The…
Nov 19, 2024 • Miri
Divorce plot
The first great divorce novel doesn’t actually feature a divorce at all.
Sep 29, 2024 • Miri
About love
Sally Rooney and Chantal Akerman
Sep 24, 2024 • Miri
On takedowns
At the start of Spare, his much maligned memoir, Harry Windsor, formerly a member of the British royal family, quotes Faulkner in his epigraph: “The…
Sep 4, 2024 • Miri
Reciprocity
From Miriam by Kate Riley
Aug 30, 2024 • Miri
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