Between The Covers - The Appetite Issue

Appetite is the first thing a girl is taught to ration — hunger, money, anger, rest, the size of her own ask, all trimmed down to a portion that keeps everyone else comfortable. This issue is about what that costs. Inside: the woman who was loved if — if she didn't cut her hair, if she wasn't a mother, if the conditions were met. The woman who left a kind man and has been explaining herself ever since. An interview on saying the number out loud, and then shutting up and letting it sit. Essays on anger as information, desire after nine years of silence, and the discipline of wanting less on purpose. Plus a $1,560 bath, a grown-up pizza joint in King City, and Bitch Fest — the advice column that says what your friends won't.