If a signature scent represents the delineations of a person fully fleshed, perfume samples offer the liberty of a protean form.

If beauty is in acts of ordinary devotion I think ugliness must be in the acts of everyday neglect.

The author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars on the joy of writing a cast of women, the violence of passing and the responsibilities of media-makers.

I am learning what it is to be responsible for my own warmth.

One thing I love about many types of guardianship in food is that it requires you watch, but not too closely.

My neighbourhood doesn't look like a place where, a century ago, hundreds of people were incinerated, and that's exactly the point.