Amanda Hess

Critic at Large at The New York Times

SECOND LIFE: HAVING A CHILD IN THE DIGITAL AGE is out now!!! https://t.co/YhdswmXUZF

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La fantasía de invadir los refugios de los magnates tecnológicos

1 week ago | infobae.com | Amanda Hess

High Net Worth IndividualsComputers and the InternetBooks and LiteratureTelevisionMoviesMountainhead (Movie)Black Mirror (TV Program)Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Movie)Made for Love (TV Program)Triangle of Sadness (Movie)Blink Twice (Movie)Mark Zuckerberg tiene su rancho hawaiano con un búnker a prueba de explosiones. Elon Musk, su complejo secreto de Texas para guarecer a su creciente prole.
The Dark Psychic Pull of the ‘Mountainhead’ Hideaway

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Amanda Hess

Mark Zuckerberg has his Hawaiian ranch with its blast-resistant bunker. Elon Musk, his secretive Texas compound to stow his growing brood. Jeff Bezos, a $500 million superyacht reachable by his fiancée’s helicopter. The private retreats of tech billionaires are absurd in their inaccessibility. But on the screen and on the page, they are now hard to avoid.
Meet the new (ultrathin) champions of body positivity

1 month ago | afr.com | Amanda Hess

Amanda HessMay 22, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Recently, Instagram led me to the account of a very thin social media influencer. I would not usually begin an article with a description of the subject’s body, but in this case, it’s also her personal brand.
The goofy, devious, alarming world of big data for anxious parents

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Maggie Lange |Amanda Hess

Book review:Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital AgeBy Amanda HessPublished by Abacus, £20About 450 years ago, a French surgeon-barber (two commonly overlapping professions at the time) published an astonishingly incorrect encyclopaedic volume, On Monsters and Marvels, to explain why some babies were born with abnormalities. The author, Ambroise Paré, listed five causes. The first four were twinned concepts; the final stood alone.
QuĂ© pasa cuando los estĂˇndares de belleza chocan con la positividad corporal

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Amanda Hess

Cuaderno de la críticaHa vuelto el ideal cultural de mujeres ultradelgadas, pero ahora está camuflado en el lenguaje de la inclusión y la autoaceptación. Credit... Ilustración por Leonie Bos Hace poco, Instagram me llevó a la cuenta de una influente muy delgada en las redes sociales. Normalmente no empezaría un artículo con una descripción del cuerpo de la persona, pero en este caso se trata también de su marca personal.
My daughter has tracked me down. But I can't give her what she wants from me.

1 month ago | slate.com | Amanda Hess

Skip to the content Being Stalked by an Undersea Monster Care and Feeding Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. For a special edition of Care and Feeding, we asked author Amanda Hess to weigh in your pressing parenting and family questions. Hess is a critic at large for The New York Times.
Don't Call Me “Mama”

1 month ago | vogue.com | Amanda Hess

All products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. I was such an easy mark. The day I discovered that I was pregnant, in January of 2020, I googled what to do when you get pregnant, and instantly the brands supplied me with their answers. They offered me leggings and belly oils and a new identity, too: They all called me mama. Not mother, or mommy, or mom. Mama.
'Second Life,' by Amanda Hess

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Amanda Hess

As seen through the gimlet eye of the New York Times cultural critic Amanda Hess, millennial parenting is anything but natural. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. SECOND LIFE: Having a Child in the Digital Age, by Amanda HessIn 1997's "Surrendering to Motherhood," the baby boomer writer Iris Krasnow jettisoned Ram Dass and journalism to find full-time enlightenment in her four joyously Fudgsicle-smeared sons.
My Pregnancy Obsession Became the Freebirth Subculture

1 month ago | marieclaire.com | Amanda Hess

In her debut memoir, Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age, author and critic at large for The New York Times Amanda Hess explores the convergence of technology and pregnancy. The below excerpt from Second Life, out May 6, examines her fascination with the Free Birth Society and its claims supporting "unassisted birth."When I first heard about freebirthing, I was sitting on a grassy knoll. This was early in my first pregnancy.
Sophie Gilbert and Amanda Hess on MLMs, Motherhood, and Menstrual Tracking Apps

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Amanda Hess

13 hours ago"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." From hot flashes and night sweats to vaginal dryness and other uncomfortable symptoms, menopause (and perimenopause) can be tough to deal with — but far too few healthcare providers are well-versed in …