I have been working in Maternal Intelligence for the past eighteen years, because of a profound belief that, with care and attention, human offspring can grow to accomplish important things—such as curing diseases, preventing wars, and giving their neighbors…

My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past. When she died, she left me to write the story of how she triumphed over hardship to become herself.

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Test engineers stage reality, sometimes by extreme means, to make sure airplanes don’t fall apart, children can’t open pill bottles, and bears won’t break into coolers.

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A hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf published her second most famous essay. “On Being Ill,” from 1926, cedes first place in the Woolf nonfiction canon to the feminist cornerstone “A Room of One’s Own,” from 1929, but the two essays share a preoccupation with…

After MacKenzie Scott quietly published her third novel—“Last Days in Two Nations,” a work of dystopian fiction set in a near-future America—in installments on Substack, in August, there was much speculation about her choice of venue. Was Scott, whose first…

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