Please, just tell me what your book is about. Quickly.

“Look at me,” she murmurs, her voice small, but no less bitter. “I have already been destroyed.”

Alt: An animated gif from the animated film The Last Unicorn, showing a newly humanized Amalthea tearfully saying, “I can feel this body dying all around me.” She’s a pale skinned woman with white hair.

As I always say (mostly to myself): the past is set, and the future as yet unwritten; all that I can do is focus on the present.

For some viewers, Heated Rivalry was a wake-up call for what’s missing in their own relationships.

“Plotting to usurp me and take Hida for yourself, little lamb?”

I’m drowning by degrees, and there is no one to reach out their hand to clasp mine.

New York Magazine said it updated 67 of Ross Barkan’s columns that did not include proper attribution. His Penguin Random House book on Mayor Zohran Mamdani was set for the fall.