Molly Fischer
Molly Fischer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2022. She covers books, style, the media, and culture at large. Previously, she was a features writer at New York, where she was also an editor at The Cut and the host of the podcast “The Cut on Tuesdays.” Her work has appeared in Bookforum, n+1, and the New York Times Book Review.
Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance
The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.
Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations
In “Morning After the Revolution,” the former New York Times reporter sets out to uncover a not-so-forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy.
Why We Choose Not to Eat
Can the decision to forgo food be removed from the gendered realm of weight-loss culture?
How Quinta Brunson Hacked the Sitcom
With “Abbott Elementary,” the comedian and writer found fresh humor and mass appeal in a world she knew well.
Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity
The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine.
How Glossier Made Effortlessness a Billion-Dollar Brand
In the influencer era, Emily Weiss built a beauty empire on hashtags, highlighter, and customer-led marketing campaigns.
Biomilq and the New Science of Artificial Breast Milk
The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition.
The Rules According to Pamela Paul
At the Times, Paul often writes on the hazards of shifting norms. But she’s also revealed the fraught position of the opinion columnist.
Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?
World of Women confronts the limits of selling cartoon avatars on the blockchain after the crypto bubble burst.
The Frictionless Triumphs of “She Said”
The movie, which dramatizes the New York Times’ reporting on Harvey Weinstein, takes us far from the usual clatter and grime of newspaper dramas.
What a Screen Can’t Capture About Fashion
A 1956 book is a refreshing reminder that there’s more to clothes than how they look.
Flower Power Underfoot on a Fashion-Week Runway
For Ulla Johnson’s show at the Brooklyn Museum, the florist Emily Thompson decapitated thousands of blooms to create pools of color that looked like lichen. Her motto: “Seduction-repulsion, always!”
The Real Backlash Never Ended
Three decades later, Susan Faludi’s 1991 feminist classic still shows us how to read between the lines.
The Numbing Rise of I.P. TV
Whereas golden-age television aspired to bring viewers something unexpected, a new glut of ripped-from-the-headlines content gives them exactly what they’ve had before.
Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance
The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.
Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations
In “Morning After the Revolution,” the former New York Times reporter sets out to uncover a not-so-forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy.
Why We Choose Not to Eat
Can the decision to forgo food be removed from the gendered realm of weight-loss culture?
How Quinta Brunson Hacked the Sitcom
With “Abbott Elementary,” the comedian and writer found fresh humor and mass appeal in a world she knew well.
Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity
The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine.
How Glossier Made Effortlessness a Billion-Dollar Brand
In the influencer era, Emily Weiss built a beauty empire on hashtags, highlighter, and customer-led marketing campaigns.
Biomilq and the New Science of Artificial Breast Milk
The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition.
The Rules According to Pamela Paul
At the Times, Paul often writes on the hazards of shifting norms. But she’s also revealed the fraught position of the opinion columnist.
Yam Karkai’s Illustrations Made Her an N.F.T. Sensation. Now What?
World of Women confronts the limits of selling cartoon avatars on the blockchain after the crypto bubble burst.
The Frictionless Triumphs of “She Said”
The movie, which dramatizes the New York Times’ reporting on Harvey Weinstein, takes us far from the usual clatter and grime of newspaper dramas.
What a Screen Can’t Capture About Fashion
A 1956 book is a refreshing reminder that there’s more to clothes than how they look.
Flower Power Underfoot on a Fashion-Week Runway
For Ulla Johnson’s show at the Brooklyn Museum, the florist Emily Thompson decapitated thousands of blooms to create pools of color that looked like lichen. Her motto: “Seduction-repulsion, always!”
The Real Backlash Never Ended
Three decades later, Susan Faludi’s 1991 feminist classic still shows us how to read between the lines.
The Numbing Rise of I.P. TV
Whereas golden-age television aspired to bring viewers something unexpected, a new glut of ripped-from-the-headlines content gives them exactly what they’ve had before.