Magdalene J. Taylor

Author Archive

  • May 2, 2025
    Some of you may have heard that I have recently started a new dream gig: for the next six months, I’m working with Playboy as Senior Editor. We’re working...
  • April 9, 2025
    This weekend, HBO aired the finale third season of White Lotus. From what I’ve read, it’s one that that left many disappointed. What happened to skewering the...
  • March 20, 2025
    Most of our love lives will, at some point within them, be the locus of a good deal of disappointment. There are few other aspects of ourselves that deal so specifically with...
  • March 5, 2025
    On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the...
  • February 20, 2025
    Biology has afforded men certain existential comforts. We are obsessed with women’s reproductive clocks, the idea that if they get married and have children when they’re...
  • February 14, 2025
    I learned in the booklet in my recent Tokyo Treat box that Valentine’s Day in Japan is traditionally celebrated almost exclusively by women gifting chocolate to men. Most all...
  • January 8, 2025
    Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. I hope you all had a lovely holiday season. I enjoyed a nice little break from working and writing, but make no mistake — I thought of you...