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Articles by
Deborah Ostrovsky
Deborah Ostrovsky lives in Montreal with her family where she is an editor, creative non-fiction writer, and occasional translator.
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January 26, 2022Our School District’s New Emergency Preparedness Guidelines Are Based on the Book of Revelation
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January 12, 2021The Final Days of Graduate School or the Final Days of Trump’s Presidency?
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March 30, 2020Self-Isolation or Graduate School?
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January 31, 2018Task List of Emotional and Physical Labor Performed During Meeting With Your Academic Supervisor to Discuss Dissertation That You Desperately Need to Finish But Can’t Because Your Supervisor Believes That Students Represent a Pool of Potential Dates
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November 30, 2016A Break-Up Letter Written as an Abstract by an Organizational Psychologist
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November 11, 2016A Patient’s Guide to Whitelash
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July 15, 2024I Can’t Believe Such a Hateful, Violent Act Could Happen in the Hateful, Violent Era I’ve Created
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July 12, 2024Schedule of Speakers for the 2024 Republican National Convention
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July 16, 2024Hillbilly Elegy Edited for J. D. Vance’s Vice Presidential Campaign
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May 10, 2024What Your Favorite ’90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
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July 26, 2024I’m a Childless Cat Lady, and If Trump and Vance Win I’m Going to Start a Sexual Relationship with My Couch
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July 26, 2024Skills You Need as President of the United States or Skills You Need as a Stepmom?
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July 26, 2024If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Wouldn’t Have Tolerated the Cynics
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July 26, 2024We Went Ahead and Made an AI Olympian