After a decade of writing and editing for legacy magazines and newspapers, I am launching Letters from Eve in a bid to recapture the magic that media once held.
This bimonthly newsletter will blend subversive essays and cultural critique on everything from feminism to capitalism to the body with notes on art, food, fashion, film, literature, and travel. I’ll also be featuring some of my favorite creative and thinkers in this newsletter, and giving you excerpts from my own fiction, and other longer-form projects.
In this early sample of both a magazine and an essay collection, I promise never to bore you, speak in vanilla, or obsess over anyone like Donald Trump or Bella Hadid. So much of publishing has become a boring parade of received wisdom and algorithm-driven bids for relevance, which has paradoxically had the opposite effect. Here, we will be following the world’s heat and light wherever it leads us, and leaving you - my all-important reader - shaken, stirred, and excited to engage with our strange and gorgeous world on whatever terms move you most.
Eve, of course, is an homage to the biblical Eve: a woman whose desire overruled a relatively arbitrary command she had been given to ignore it. This tension between our wanting and the many ways we are told to want less or want differently is a subject I find myself returning to time and again in writing. It will be a focus of the essays in this newsletter; coupled with a hefty dose of recommendations and reportage on all the world’s beauty I see that there is to want.
We’ll be launching next Monday with an essay on the political economy of beauty and some notes on and shots of everything from palaces to jewels in Istanbul. Subscribe in the link below, and follow along on Instagram here and here. Most of all, welcome.