The problem with a narcissistic doofus who sexts w/ multiple strangers while still a newlywed, midway through fertility treatment, isn't that he's a bad husband, it's that he seems like a reckless dummy who can be blackmailed or manipulated, whatever his political skills! Holy Anthony Weiner

Should Antisemitism Studies replace Jewish Studies? In @thecjn.bsky.social, I say why I think not. thecjn.ca/opinion/who-...

Public Jewish life has been all but abolished in most of Europe. This raises no civil liberties concerns with anyone - it is widely seen as the natural corollary to the culpable existence of Jews.

They are welcome to tag me!!

Sufficiently excited about the column I've just started writing (not about straight womanhood) that I can almost forget about the thing where I was so blatantly ripped off.

The important thing to understand is that I’m unfazed by this.

hope you brought urine!

The important thing to understand is that I’m unfazed by this.

It's a variation of my book, which no it doesn't mention. A book I suspect they were aware of and that came out shortly before this article did. Anyway!

There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o... Wow someone should write a book about that

among other things I am just really sick of seeing that man from Maine's bare chest

the high cost of bouncy castles is largely due to inflation

YOU GUYS www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

I made a round-up of few things I’ve been reading (including @phoebebovy.bsky.social's brilliant new book), contemplating, toasting in my toaster oven, and failing at this week. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I am now so confused. So there is a real radio program but this lady is an imposter? And one with a lot of patience as it was a normal email from a radio station and only the second email included the request for payment.

New scam just dropped: I was asked to go on an Irish radio program to discuss my book, I said sure, they replied with 'and that will be $200' what

Relieved to have gotten in under the wire and not even once considered having a mom aesthetic or that such a thing could exist. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/s...

“But they vote Trump anyway.”

On the low-effort heartthrobs of Britcom, and why they lack US counterparts. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-sexy-l...

The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. / S05E14 The Marine Biologist

Folks is it ‘Israel First’ to be against Nazi tattoos?

Put on a blouse to do a Substack Live and CBC Radio!

The emotional rollercoaster of book publishing: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/enough-abo...

My most impressive college classmate continues to impress.

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Get yer Literary Criticism & Theory here!

BlueSky's cycle of anxious self-questioning, triggered every time Someone Says Something and resolved by At Least We're Not X, makes it a soothingly familiar place for a Canadian.

I'm aware that there was Miller Lite discourse, not fully up on why, but desperately wishing Niles Crane would join the conversation.

As the parent of a kid with tree nut and sesame allergies and who outgrew milk allergy all I can contribute to this discourse is that it is possible to learn how to bake bagels at home.

Obsessed with the idea of a culture-wars take (from 2017, which may throw things off) about how Kids These Days ride bikes later because safety-ism when in fact they're riding bikes earlier because balance bikes. www.freerangekids.com/are-kids-lea...

Not to do the please consider rating and reviewing but yeah.

Book launched!

Book launched!

It's @phoebebovy.bsky.social's straight redoubt night. I cant go alas, not because of oppressive straight hegemony but rather I'm hosting a panel at the CN Tower for it's 50th bday year as part of Door's Open tonight. Many things in late May, the time of our lives.

That's great! And there is one now. See also: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG7R...

It is just really weird to act like dating around (with some sex) in one’s 20s and then going on to monogamy, marriage, motherhood is some sort of crazy, exceptional trajectory that Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper was rare & lucky to pull off reason.com/2026/05/20/c...

There's no other way to say this: PUB DATE! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513...

A new version of strangest blog comment just dropped: annoyed at an author THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO FOLLOW for mentioning their book, on the day the book came out.

Join The CJN's very own Opinion Editor @phoebebovy.bsky.social in celebration of her newest book, The Last Straight Woman, out today!

Not on the cover-inspo mood board but possibly also the vibe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvT...

You know you've been doomscrolling too much when whenever you see a post of an array of headshots, a group of children, you assume 'ah because these people are all now dead' and then it's something extremely innocuous.

This is a totally normal attempt to add a bit of color to a lede about a dry topic, of a kind that should be familiar to anyone who reads stories in the NYT’s Business section; it’s not a “glitch” of any kind

There's no other way to say this: PUB DATE! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513...

Happy book day to @phoebebovy.bsky.social, someone I'll read on any subject, even if I'm not the target audience (or worse, when I'm directly implicated) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513...

I love when people (accurately) guess the cover inspo!

Consider it done.

@phoebebovy.bsky.social Look what I found on the old Kindle this morning.

Of interest at least to @beckyaizen.bsky.social: Mrs. Slocombe's Jewishness, Mr. Humphries's gayness, and the sitcoms-and-linear-progress conundrum. thecjn.ca/arts-culture... @thecjn.bsky.social

There are two critiques of Trump I can't get on board with. 'He likes flashy decor' nothing wrong with gilded maximalism. 'He looks old' well whomst amongst us. These detract from the other criticisms which are all valid and then some.

Twins but they spent a lot of time away from each other.