Sometimes two people are lucky enough to find each other. And then they live an exquisite romance together, for five or even seven days. Sometimes the bliss lasts even longer. Then there is the far-too-inevitable rupture of the affair. It is often as quick and unforeseen as the initial enchantment. My friend recently put his [...]

There are few things more awkward or irritating than the annual gynecological visit. Well, I can think of loads of more uncomfortable scenarios, but on this icy March afternoon, the last thing I wanted to do was to sit semi-naked, partially wrapped in over-sized white paper towel “gowns,” atop a hospital table with its own [...]

This afternoon Hanif Kureishi, English-Pakistani novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, came to Pierson College for a Master’s Tea, blanketing my 4pm procrastination in a bitter British coziness. Kureishi wrote the charmingly geriatric film with Peter O’Toole, Venus: the story of an unexpected relationship between a lazily gauche girl and an elderly actor (a veteran of Britain’s [...]