In an essay from Amanda Hess's memoir 'Second Life,' she explores her parasocial relationship with the freebirther subculture amid her medicalized pregnancy.

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

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