Musings on Joan Didion — I first saw Los Angeles when I was 21. I flew in on a direct JetBlue flight from JFK and the “Manhattan Serenade” from the Godfather played in my head as we hit the runway. This was a time when I matched my headbands to my jackets was under the…

Introducing “Women Sitting on Grass” During the Fall of 2011, I spent a semester of my junior year of college studying in Paris. It was my first time living abroad and I relied on a petty stipend from the university to cover my monthly expenses. …

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city…

The summer before my freshman year of college I decided that I wanted to try something new. This didn’t come in the form of a belly button piercing or adopting veganism, it was fasting for Ramadan. …