"The brushstrokes are somewhat cruel and yet so purely existential that although Bacon exposes cruelty, all I feel is my heartbeat breathing new life into every vein."
"If the secret was out, if the Iranian religious police found your satellite dish on the roof, the shiny silver metal protruding outward into the open sky, you were in trouble."
"What might be the import of a literature for and by women in a period when women lacked sexual agency?" Scholarship on the female gaze in the works of Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon
"There were sensual photoshoots, repetitive interviews, and many asymmetrical haircuts." On femininity, authenticity, and failed categories of rock music.