​​We spoke with Alice Englert about the art of disappearing, why perfection is overrated, and playing the first woman on the moon.

Bonnie Langedijk traces storytelling back to the women who kept it alive long before they were allowed to write it down. Occasioned by Miu Miu's Tales & Tellers in Shanghai, her essay asks what separates telling a story from keeping one, and why the keeper of the record has so often been a woman.