It feels somehow significant to me that men seem more interested in the Epstein story. Maybe a feed fluke, but this does not stop me from forming theories.

cannot wait until the word pedophile is slightly less omnipresent in the news cycle.

Long(er) form thoughts phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/gossip-and...

Have people on here read the NYT articles they’re mad at? Because that would be my first of several questions.

The book, the backstory, a chronology: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/straight-w...

The book, the backstory, a chronology: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/straight-w...

A gentle suggestion: if someone is hit by a subway car, making it so the subway needs to stop and everyone on it needs to get out, the conductor could euphemize this some way other than that a "serious emergency" has happened "on the subway."

Ding ding ding! x.com/amyklobuchar...

I’m a writer not a publicist so expect periodic similarly inelegant reminders that my book is coming out in May.

Have confirmed I will need to do author photos. Where does one do this in Toronto, and what dramatic, instantly-regretted thing should I do with my hair ahead of this?

Had gone Poshmark cold turkey mainly for logistical reasons (mail strike followed by moving) but someone was selling a Laura Ashley cotton floral 1990-era TOP and those are near-impossible to find so, here we are.

Genuinely remarkable how often someone posts something rightfully called out as outrageous and I see the name and remember I had blocked them like 15 years ago for similar shenanigans.

YOU GUYS phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-last-s...

YOU GUYS phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-last-s...

Why the message of the Epstein story is not that MeToo just needed to MeToo even harder. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/male-patte...

Gift link! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/be7c741...

Cinderella narrated by David Frost with Beryl Reid, Babs Windsor, Una Stubbs and Nicky Henson? Yes please!

To the extent that Jews are being spared from the right-wing campaign to eliminate "DEI," the expectation is that those Jews are not Jewish leftists or anti-Zionists. "There are Jews and Jews," Alvin Rosenfeld, the founder of Indiana's Jewish studies program, told me. forward.com/news/783205/...

Writing output vs: household norovirus, the eternal struggle.

My book Live to See the Day is off to the printer and available for preorder. I’d love it if you bought a copy or spread the word. It took me around the world — and took seven years to write! Which is fitting for a book about things that might never happen. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/645965...

Ahhhhhh: "The AI boyfriend as feminist alternative to flesh-and-blood man-about-the-house has something in common with political lesbianism. In both scenarios, men are liberated from housework and child care."

Gift link! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/be7c741...

Thank you to @phoebebovy.bsky.social for having me back on CJN’s The Jewish Angle to talk antisemitism and the American political right thecjn.ca/opinion/how-...

I wrote about boyfriend embarrassment and the not-actually-feminist 'just date women' refrain. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Exactly. “Overreach” wasn’t a claim that too many rapists were facing justice. It was about inappropriate or annoying not always even sexual behavior getting conflated with horrors.

Our three rabbi podcasters unpack the love story between a rabbi and a podcaster – a story that, as Opinion Editor @phoebebovy.bsky.social puts it, is “an awkwardly-timed infomercial for Judaism”. Read Phoebe’s column: thecjn.ca/arts-culture... Full episode: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

In retrospect, musings on women's mathematical prowess may not have been the main concern.

One would think pedophilia would be disqualifying but open admiration for Hitler isn't these days so who can say?

Writing something new on this but in the mean time: thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

100% misread that as Rod Dreher and was so confused

As an unabashed, unapologetic fan of The Row, I do think it’s funny that they just kind of ate up Eileen Fisher‘s whole deal like Pacman eats ghosts

Over at the other place. It's long, these are just the opening paragraphs. ISI is an old-line conservative organization— with a tradition, virtue, and religion orientation, not the fusionist/ libertarian version found in some other student-facing groups. It wasn't Trumpist. x.com/FrankChodoro...

A litmus test that will be nearly impossible for women to clear. Cool cool cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/s...

I could not include EVERY thought Nobody Wants This tangentially inspired in my review, so, some outtakes here: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-45-yea...

Covering all the important issues of the day (but actually, kind of) thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

Covering all the important issues of the day (but actually, kind of) thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

I believe the most significant culinary development to date is ajitsuke tamago — salty soft boiled eggs that you just leave in your fridge for breakfast every morning or eat standing up over the sink at 3 AM www.justonecookbook.com/ramen-egg/#r...

SO DO I. This was bad when it was 'why don't we have authors from certain minority groups only write sob stories' and it's bad when it's 'so, you're Jewish, not Israeli but same thing right? where's your novel of apology?'

In the wake of USAID cuts killing hundreds of thousands, of a US-led end of liberal democracy, will American writers self-flagellate instead of going about their lives?

The subhed on the article here is making my blood pressure rise. Will I read the essay? Stay tuned...

Meanwhile in Canada.

My fate: www.youtube.com/shorts/Hjl7Y...

On screens in kids' museums, parenting discourse, and the pure continuous joy that is thinking what to serve one's family for meals. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/complaints...

across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one

On screens in kids' museums, parenting discourse, and the pure continuous joy that is thinking what to serve one's family for meals. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/complaints...

Professor David Schraub’s forthcoming book, "Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy," challenges readers to confront society’s tendency to brush off hard thoughts. Published by Oxford University Press, it’s out now and available to order. 🔗 Read more and order a copy here! @schraubd.bsky.social

Realizing that my memory of Reese's Pieces (a delicacy!) is not squaring with my middle-aged revisiting via excess Halloween candy (borderline vile)