As a very young South Korean-born girl growing up in Utah, Anna Park fell deeply and permanently in love with drawing. “I just found it very seductive,” she tells me. “It made me feel good.” She still feels that way. Her fluent, immersive, black-and-white images, often 10 feet long, have put her in the forefront … Read more
This might sound weird for a lesbian to say (we famously like sports, right?), but I’ve been avoiding women’s basketball for most of my life. I grew up visiting my dad’s parents in West Hartford, Connecticut, not far from where the legendary UConn women’s basketball team practiced, and my grandfather was a big fan of … Read more
Having bid farewell to The Crown in a blaze of corgis and crêpe de chine, Imelda Staunton seems to be having period drama withdrawals. The 68-year-old—who’s appeared as lady-in-waiting Maud Bagshaw in both Downton Abbey: The Motion Picture and Downton Abbey: A New Era, and is married to Jim Carter of Carson fame—dropped by BBC … Read more
Levy plays…Marc, a gay man in his late 30s confronted with the sudden death of his dreamy husband, Oliver (Luke Evans). An artist who abandoned his painting practice after the loss of his mother, Marc had been living contently in Oliver’s shadow, illustrating his young adult novels and playing the role of “Gay Best Friend” … Read more
Many of us discovered our love for reading through young adult books. They were truth-tellers, examining themes like friendship, loss, puberty, mental health, and sex in ways that gently let us know we weren’t alone in our thoughts or experiences. Now, to revisit those books is to return to a time when life seemed both … Read more
