Rachel Dodes is a free­lance cul­ture writer. She’s a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Van­i­ty Fair, and her work has also appeared in Town & Coun­try, ELLE, Esquire, The New York Times, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She was pre­vi­ous­ly a staff writer at The Wall Street Jour­nal cov­er­ing the film industry.