A decade after its finale, HBO is bringing Girls back for five new episodes. The revival’s real question is how its characters—and its audience—have changed.
A job title can open doors, signal status, and explain your place in a room. It cannot tell you whether the life behind it still fits. “What do you do?” It is one of the first questions we ask someone we meet. Not what do you like, what are you obsessed with, what kind of […]
We used to experience our lives and then remember them. Now, increasingly, we experience them with an audience in mind. As social media turns ordinary moments into content, what happens to the parts of life that were never meant to be seen?
We have never had more access to one another, yet access is not the same as intimacy. As social media turns our lives into carefully edited windows, we are left to question how much we truly know about the people we see every day.
