God Forbid a Girl Has Hobbies

Multimedia notes towards a comparative theory of Girlhood

Feb 22 • Olivia Giovetti

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The Protégé

Simon Ghraichy, Jeffrey Epstein, and the fog of art

Feb 9 • Olivia Giovetti

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“There Is a Reason You Are Still Struggling and it Is Not Your Talent”

What the latest Epstein documents reveal about his relationship with Leon Botstein

Feb 4 • Olivia Giovetti

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January 2026

Sight Unseen

Art, illusion, and the moral cost of looking away

Jan 7 • Olivia Giovetti

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December 2025

Fern von hier Folgers mir nun

Fern von hier Folgers mir nun.

Dec 24, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened

Because we've all read too much music theory to be merry.

Dec 3, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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November 2025

Dirtbag Winterreise

“more like suck-blick”

Nov 26, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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Of Course Jeffrey Epstein Was a Beethoven Fan

The complicitous silence of cultural capital

Nov 20, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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Music Unties

Classical musicians continue to insist that art has nothing to do with politics.

Nov 14, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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Real Reactions

Borys Lyatoshynsky’s The Golden Crown in Lviv, selective solidarity everywhere else

Nov 8, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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September 2025

Killing Khovansky

1,041 words about the past that have absolutely nothing to do with the present (until they do)

Sep 23, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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The Unsullied Face of Truth

A few scattered thoughts as I reconsider La clemenza di Tito

Sep 2, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

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