mysteries

The Watcher A New Jersey family bought their ideal home. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.

By Reeves Wiedeman
why is your skin so good
How This Wellness Blogger Gets Her Skin So Good Remy Morimoto Park on her vegan skin-care routine.
By Daise Bedolla
you know what i heard
Are Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Going to Have a Baby? And more in this week’s celebrity gossip column.
By Allie Jones
ask polly
By Heather Havrilesky
‘I’m Lazy, Reckless, and Addicted to Social Media. Help!’ The way you’re processing the world is broken. If you don’t fix it, you’ll just keep creating new problems. 

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shopping
A Woman Falls in Love With a Celine Bag An erotic play in one act.
By Stella Bugbee
the beauty of it all
Jill Scalamandre Thinks Clean Beauty Is Just Beginning Talking to the President of BareMinerals, Buxom, and Global Development for Shiseido Makeup.
By Jane Larkworthy
ask a boss
How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You a Job I’ve read thousands of cover letters in my career. Here are all the elements of an actually good one.
By Alison Green

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Style

self/reflection
Eyebrows Are a Constant Reminder That Trends Are Fleeting When I got halfway-decent at doing my eyebrows, the rules all changed.
By Helena Fitzgerald
in her shoes
The Retail Genius Who Loves Wearing a Sharp Jacket and Heels Every morning, chief brand officer Sarah Rutson likes to “dress from the feet up.”
By Diana Tsui
vogue fashion fund
By Emilia Petrarca
When Anna Wintour Opens Her Rolodex At 15, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund can give young designers a boost – if they’re lucky. 
self
When You Get Waxed for the First Time Just looking at my pubic hair embarrasses me, even when I’m all by myself.
By Chelsea Martin
happenings
Frivolity in the Capital: Couture Dresses Come to D.C. You can see Rodarte’s Star Wars dresses and Black Swan tutus up close.
By Kerry Folan

The Shopper

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fashion
Why Marc Jacobs Brought His 1992 Grunge Collection Back The Perry Ellis collection became a touchstone of the ’90s and beyond. Now, his eponymous label is reproducing 26 of the original runway outfits.
By Cathy Horyn
victoria's secret
How Victoria’s Secret Hair Has Changed Over the Years From shiny waves to even shinier waves.
By Erica Smith
parties!
The Best-est Party Looks of the Week One awe-inspiring look from every fête that mattered.
By Jessica Boddy

Power

encounter
Barbara Lee Talks Iraq, Poverty, and Her Seat at the Table “When I’m in the room and nobody else that looks like me is in the room, it makes a big difference,” says the House’s lefty conscience.
By Rebecca Traister
mysteries
The Watcher A New Jersey family bought their ideal home. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.
By Reeves Wiedeman
power
By Kerry Howley
How Did Larry Nassar Deceive So Many for So Long? Everyone believed the predatory trainer who may have just brought down USA Gymnastics. 
ask a boss
How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You a Job
By Alison Green
reading the signs
How Donald Trump Uses the Female Body As a Weapon The White House co-opts the language of #MeToo to punish a CNN reporter.
By Rhonda Garelick
my two cents
‘After My Parents Died, I Got Money to Buy an Apartment’
By Charlotte Cowles
how i get it done
Comedy writer Megan Amram of The Good Place on drinking too much coffee, becoming a L.A. caricature, and how Twitter changed her career

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Self

astrology
Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of November 12 Venus goes direct this week – finally! – but Mercury goes retrograde the same day.
By Claire Comstock-Gay
beat around the bush
9 Men Tell Us What They Do to Their Pubes There are rules and rituals, products and tools.
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reproductive rights
By Katie Heaney
Planned Parenthood’s New President Sued Trump (and Won) Dr. Leana Wen is the first physician to be president of Planned Parenthood in nearly 50 years. 
atypical
My Life As a Psychopath
By Katie Heaney
it's complicated
It’s Complicated: Spare Me the Grand Romantic Gesture Sometimes the small and the ordinary carry more meaning.
By Maris Kreizman
politics
I Voted for Republicans, Until They Voted Against My Son
By Tasha Nelson
scent memories
Natasha Gregson Wagner recently added a new fragrance, La Rose, to the line inspired by her late mother, Natalie Wood. Based on the roses her mom kept in their garden, the realistic scent smells freshly picked thanks to a mix of rose essence, geranium, and heliotrope. The Cut spoke with Wagner about the smell of dog paws, hamburgers, and oil on canvas.
sex diaries
The Single Man Who Doesn’t Like Guys Who Are Bad at Sports This week’s sex diary.
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beat around the bush
What Are Pubes Actually For? We don’t totally know why we have pubic hair.
By Katie Heaney

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Culture

the cut on tuesdays
If You Can’t Get Enough of Elena Ferrante, Read This This week’s podcast episode comes with some book recommendations.
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street style
27 Women of Color on Seeing Themselves in Literature We spoke to 27 women at the club’s festival about the black literature that left a lasting impact on them.
By Mariah Smith
never forget
By Erica Smith
Remembering the Best Victoria’s Secret Disaster of All Time The time Ariana Grande got smacked in the face by angel wings. 
fixations
I Think About This a Lot: St. Vincent Saying ‘I Love You’
By Grace Perry
2018 midterms
Of the Over 400 Black Women Running in Midterms, 5 to Know No matter how much you like Michelle Obama and Oprah, we’ve never elected a statewide top executive who looks like them. This year might change that.
By Brittany Packnett
you know what i heard
Are Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Going to Have a Baby?
By Allie Jones
beat around the bush
9 Men Tell Us What They Do to Their Pubes There are rules and rituals, products and tools.
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weekend with
A Cyclist Photographs Her Way Through Crete One amazing meal made her rethink her entire trip.
By Bailey Malone Kircher
out of office
A Stylish Travel Guide to Mexico City From a New York City expat with great taste, Abby Clawson Low.
By Jessica Boddy

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8/19/2018
Tessa Thompson Knows People Can’t Stop Thinking About Her She’d just rather you think about her work than her personal life.
By Allison P. Davis
8/6/2018
Sonoya Mizuno Doesn’t Just Want to Dance A conversation with the ballerina-turned–Crazy Rich Asians star about representation and following your gut.
By Kathleen Hou
7/3/2018
Marisa Tomei Knows What She’s Worth A frank conversation on money, beauty, and sticking with work you love.
By Stella Bugbee
6/29/2018
Summer of Rage White men are the minority in the United States — no wonder they get uncomfortable when their power is challenged.
By Rebecca Traister
6/7/2018
Meet Jorja Smith: The Soul Singer Who Turned Down Drake “Maybe I am a bit of a siren.”
By Allison P. Davis
6/4/2018
Time’s Up, Bill Is Bill Clinton the only one who doesn’t realize he needs to join the #MeToo reckoning?
By Rebecca Traister
5/28/2018
How an Aspiring ‘It’ Girl Tricked New York’s Party People — and Its Banks Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.
By Jessica Pressler
5/13/2018
What I Learned on My Date With a Sex Robot Maybe they need to be more like us. Or maybe we’re already learning to be more like them.
By Allison P. Davis
5/1/2018
In Her New Book Motherhood, Sheila Heti Confronts an Eternal Female Crossroads The writer takes up the problem of whether to have a baby in her engrossing autobiographical novel.
By Molly Fischer
4/5/2018
Busy Philipps on Instagram, Her BFF Michelle Williams, and Losing Heath Ledger Instagram’s favorite storyteller has so much more to say.
By Allie Jones
4/2/2018
The ‘Mirror Face’ of 17 New York Women Women, photographed through a two-way mirror, reveal what they desire in themselves.
By Molly Fischer
3/16/2018
Teens Already Know How to Overthrow the Government You would too if you’d grown up reading the Hunger Games.
By Lisa Miller