new years day reading

whether hungover, just standard bone tired, or bored of trying to hide from covid and her ombre of strands, these are the articles i enjoyed reading most this year to help keep you company in bed

1. my favourite fellow bravo reality television programming aficionado naomi fry wrote about ghislaine maxwell’s relentless ego for the new yorker. i remember reading the times piece a couple of years ago about the sisters who first tried to take down jeffrey epstein and maxwell and being so floored by the calculated precision maxwell used to target victims. there is so much still unknown about the crimes and clients of the dark sided dynamic duo and the curiousity/desire for more details will only be fueled further when prince andrew’s trial begins (wonder if the queen’s death being revealed could be used to delay the trial next year). this was the most illuminating portrait of the person who seems to appear in every photograph ever taken.

it is yet to be seen whether maxwell’s conviction is the start of a widespread reckoning—one that finally unravels the skein of the epstein affair—or just an exception to prove the rule.

despite everything, this is my favourite image to exist on the …