by itchysilk | Apr 22, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
In A24’s movie The Drama Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya)’s wedding preparation is thrown off by a seemingly innocent game, initiated by her maid of honour Rachel: revealing the worst thing they’ve ever done. SPOILER ALERT: The secrets of each person in...
by itchysilk | Apr 3, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
“Consuming a piece of art is two biographies meeting: the biography of the artist that might disrupt the viewing of the art; the biography of the audience member that might shape the viewing of the art. This occurs in every case.” ― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A...
by Sophie Roy | Mar 25, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
Eating is never just eating. It is habit, inheritance, access, geography, and, more often than we would like to admit, power. Taste, if anything, is trained. In Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (in the original mandarin chinese and translated by Lin King) food is...
by Sophie Roy | Feb 16, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
Many people will tell you that grief is what thrusts you into adulthood—that it marks the moment when the world stops feeling padded. It is the instant you understand that love and loss are not opposites but extensions of the same experience. Loss is love. Or perhaps...
