Thanks to the popularity of the well-known app, Co-Star, astrology is more prominent than ever this year. From Twitter accounts dedicated to posting daily horoscopes with half a million followers to Instagram pages that relate the signs to viral memes, astrology has long since graduated from the back pages of printed newspapers and taken on a life — and cult following — of its own. From Urban Outfitters graphic tees to dating apps, it has infiltrated nearly all domains of social life — I recentl

When I think of the meals my mother and I have shared, I am not hit with a wave of culinary nostalgia. There are no wafts of homemade sugar cookie frosting in the air or hearty scents of a pot roast baking in the oven over the holidays. Food has never been my mother’s love language. As a child, I dreamt of having the kind of mother who dutifully baked and chopped and peeled, whose primary domain was the kitchen. It seemed to me that cooking and feeding were traits a woman naturally assumed without effort after having children.

In the quest for authenticity, influencers are curating a new type of aesthetic. Today, trendiness is no longer measured by the number of likes on your avocado toast pictures and hyper-posed selfies but instead by the relatability of your content. Realism has replaced aspiration. Recently, sites like Instagram and Pornhub champion content creators who’ve managed to perfect this amateur aesthetic. Through ad revenue, brand deals and sponsorships, “influencing” has established itself beyond Gen Z

"Consequences of Flight is for anyone longing for something just out of focus, which describes us all. This collection, an elegant interrogation of loss, family, and becoming, is excellent company." - Ellen O'Connell Whittet, Author of What We Become in Flight "I think anyone who has been through a similar situation will be affected by them, and those who haven't will come out with a better understanding." - Bob Krut, Author of The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire, and This is the Ocean

We’ve seen the memes. We’ve seen the Snapchat stories. It’s not COVID-19. I’m talking about Animal Crossing and how it’s staked its claim as a cultural phenomenon of 2020. Since shelter-in-place orders and social distancing regulations swept across the country, the video game industry has boomed. They’ve become a unique source of solace and remedy to the inevitable boredom of staying inside all day for long-time video game lovers and especially for the new and uninitiated. There’s something for

Lucy Liu, famed Asian-American actress and one of the three Charlie’s Angels (in the 2000 reboot), will receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star next to Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American actress to grace American film screens. Last year, “Crazy Rich Asians” racked up $238.5 million at box offices worldwide. Asian-Americans are breaking the bamboo ceiling with a bang. 2019 is the year of Asian-American representation in pop-culture and media. We are no longer being portrayed as racist arche