Grazie Sophia Christie

2 months ago | thepointmag.com | Becca Rothfeld |Jessi Jezewska Stevens |Grazie Sophia Christie |Rafael Frumkin

By Jessi Jezewska Stevens How should the left counter right-wing irony, if not by adopting the same destructive rhetorical strategies as Trump, or else slipping back into its own contemptuous habits?

2 months ago | thepointmag.com | Grazie Sophia Christie

I was scammed once, during the single, broiling summer I ever lived in New York City. In urgent need of an apartment, I exchanged messages with a friend of a friend; soon I found myself exchanging money, although I suppose exchange is the wrong word. I got nothing in return for my timely wire: no keys, no half of a decent two-bedroom, no reply to my furious question marks. It was a great deal of money for me and I felt too ashamed to go to the police and more ashamed than that to go to my father.

Apr 16, 2024 | trillmag.com | Kat Sung |Grazie Sophia Christie

Trigger/Content warning: This article includes brief descriptions of racism, gun violence, and child abuse. Chicken coops, vegetable gardens, embroidered aprons, and freshly baked bread. There has always been an appeal to the “simple” life in the country with just enough land for yourself and your family and/or a dog or two. On social media there are remnants of this tendency. Posts and accounts center on the simple pleasures of plants and baking.

Apr 4, 2024 | hertelier.com | Grazie Sophia Christie

“I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!” – The Beatles A woman’s life is all work and little rest. An age gap relationship can help,"by Grazie Sophia Christie? Oh, you must!  Seriously!  And oh, how I wish we could discuss her transactional approach to marriage afterward, cocktails in hand. Before I read, and reread, Chrisrtie’s 4,000-word essay on New York magazine’s The Cut four times, I was intrigued reading "A Latina Harvard grad advised women to marry older men. The internet had thoughts," byRaul A.

Aug 9, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Grazie Sophia Christie

When Granta Books reissued Virginia Woolf’s diaries this summer, it advertised them as “unexpurgated for the first time”. I was struck by the word choice. After all, I associate “purging” with the process of writing a diary, not publishing or editing one. Taking up the pen, opening the blank page like a toilet bowl, spilling guts and confidences. The last time Woolf’s diaries were published, between 1977 and 1984, they comprised around 2,000 pages of such intimate disclosures.