Friendship I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships. Michelle Dean 17
Christmas Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. Michelle Dean 12
Christmas I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas... Michelle Dean 24
