Lucy Ives

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The Ends of Innocence January 29, 2025

During my junior year of college, I lived in a house full of ambitious young men. We were not Econ majors, however. Not doctors nor lawyers nor titans of industry in training. We were artists and writers and musicians and intellectuals. We spent a lo...

A Review of 'An Image of My Name Enters America' October 25, 2024

When Greta Gerwig’s film Barbie came out last year, I was inundated with essays that analyzed the film’s joys, flaws, and gender politics. They often did so using a popular formula: mix high culture and low—children’s toys with critical theory—to rev...