Monica Heisey

2 months ago | vogue.co.uk | Monica Heisey

The old joke goes that martinis are like breasts: one is too few, three is too many. While a few rebuttals – a particular recent dinner party, that scene in Total Recall – spring to mind, I understand the sentiment. I am often torn between honouring Saturday night’s potential and remembering Sunday morning’s non-refundable reformer class; between acknowledging the cost of living crisis and drinking through it; between feeling sober-curious and curious to try everything on the cocktail list.

2 months ago | havenmagazines.com | Monica Heisey |Rebecca Traister |Grant Ginder |E. Lockhart

REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY By Monica Heisey Love is in the air, but for some people it’s a toxic cloud that keeps us from seeing ourselves clearly.

Sep 4, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Kelli Maria Korducki |Monica Heisey |Stephie Grob Plante

Twenty years ago, during a particularly soggy late-summer hurricane season along North America’s eastern seaboard, a 62-year-old Hofstra University professor named Silvia Federici published one of the most influential feminist texts of the 21st century. That book, Caliban and the Witch, traces the emergence of witch hunts throughout medieval Western Europe amid the transition from serfdom to proto-capitalism.

Jul 27, 2024 | msn.com | Monica Heisey

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Jul 27, 2024 | theguardian.com | Monica Heisey

Late in the novel Ex-Wife, a pair of newlyweds turned sudden divorcees gather for a final dinner. Peter and Patricia are both somewhat battle-worn: after their lopsided open marriage came to drunken blows, Peter took up with a series of other women and moved out, while Patricia refused to formally divorce him. Unkind words were exchanged, and each had a habit of drunk dialling the other and suggesting doomed lunches or even more doomed sex. Someone was thrown through a glass door.