In this hilarious essay, navigating Los Angeles’s cutthroat private school admissions becomes an unexpectedly personal education for New York Times bestselling author Mindy Kaling, where the parents are interviewed, everyone pretends to be relaxed, and nobody is fooling anyone. As Mindy...

Fashionable clothes and validation were great while they lasted. But what happens when acclaimed writer, actress, producer, and director Mindy Kaling can no longer fit into sample sizes? In this liberating essay, she learns that maybe there’s something more valuable. Being romantically dumped...

Is it the right choice for Mindy Kaling, one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” to track down the person who stole her ugly car? It’s not only right—it’s kind of exciting. When someone drives off with her Cookie Monster–blue car, Mindy tracks it through South LA with...

A fabulous vacation destination? A winter wonderland? That big fat lie is exposed once and for all in a bracing essay by Mindy Kaling. Mindy takes her family to Vail for a privileged experience she never had as a child. Instead of a wholesome family memory, it’s a slushy, expensive, and...

How exhilarating is a sale? For Mindy Kaling, exhilarating enough to sprint to Rodeo Drive the moment she hears Chanel is offering the impossible—a discount. Sporting a bandaged arm, a baseball cap, and unwashed hair, Mindy talks her way into one of fashion’s rarest shopping events, where...

There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she realizes the lighting isn’t getting worse—she is. Mindy Kaling has arrived. When restaurant menus, receipts, and Instagram captions become mysteriously unreadable, Mindy embarks on an eye exam that leaves her with reading glasses, dry...