Life Style

In her debut story collection, Watching Women & Girls, Riposte founder Danielle Pender discusses life's pillars: the desire for love, the urge to serve, the desire for ambition, the need for friendship, and the necessity to sustain sexual desire. Ahead of its publication date on June 23, she considers what it takes to sustain sexual attraction with a long-term partner. Want, what an inebriating drug. More intense than any class As, more overpowering than any psychedelic drugs. It's a need, a need, a longing for a person or thing that can consume your contemplations, energy, and here and there your life. Toward the start of any relationship, want is the fuel that pushes two individuals toward one another, and it tends to be a hazardous encounter. Along these lines, no big surprise wh...

Penguin Random House has announced that it will posthumously publish Work in Progress, a book Virgil Abloh began writing before his death in 2021. Work in Progress, co-authored by the late, visionary Off-White founder and artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton and Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, founder and editor-in-chief of Vestoj, will be a “hybrid work that combines cultural criticism, theory, art, and personal narrative.” It does not yet have a publication date. Abloh has sought refuge in intellectual, theoretical, and imaginative conversations with Aronowsky Cronberg about his work. One World told Vogue that Abloh’s new book, Work in Progress, is the culmination of their dialogue. The book illuminates the ideas behind Abloh’s astonishing process and practice. Nicole Counts, senio...

Amber Valletta has been focusing on environmental impact issues on a global scale for over 20 years, with ocean conservation her primary concern. When Valletta’s son was six months old, she moved to California and began working with non-governmental organizations that focused on environmental sustainability. She joined the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which works to cut carbon emissions and expand clean energy. Valletta also partnered with Oceana, the nation’s largest international ocean conservation organization, on its Seafood Contamination Campaign. She worked with them to shut down coal mines because of mercury poisoning in fish. Eventually, Valletta’s ongoing commitment to sustainability caught the attention of the Fashion Institute of Technology where she served as Su...

Nicole Berrie begins her new cookbook, Body Harmony, with a journey through her past. Before the founder of food and wellbeing site Bonberi and plant-based New York convenience store Bonberi Mart shares aspirational pages of colourful, vegan recipes—from her go-to green lemonade to tomato coconut-milk bisque and Chunky Monkey Froyo—Berrie reveals snapshots from a lifetime of disordered eating. It started with the covert packs of Doritos she'd bring to bed at age seven, around "similar time my folks' marriage started to disentangle", she composes, and she started to experience constant verbal, profound, and on occasion actual maltreatment from somebody near her. "I would grip that foil sack like a familiar object in obscurity," Berrie recalls as one. In her teenagers, she intensified foo...

I got Covid after a good stretch of avoiding it. I anticipated mild cold symptoms that some people I had spoken with had talked about, but it wasn't to be. I only had two weeks of confinement and emerged feeling weak and tearful and substantially depleted. That is entirely normal; official counsel lets you know that you're probable not to feel like your old self for a decent couple of weeks post-infection. So while it's not exceptionally decent, it's normal. What's more, I felt fortunate to be inoculated and not massively sick thus. Yet, I didn't expect that my period would choose not to appear. Days went by and I started to consider what was happening. Once more, it's not absolutely surprising for your feminine cycle to escape whack when you've been debilitated. Fortunately your body i...