Joanna Scutts

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Joanna Scutts

The story of pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood follows a preordained, overarching plot—ignorance to knowledge, innocence to experience—but its contours are as variable as the curves of a pregnant body or an individual digital footprint. As a longtime reporter on internet culture for The New York Times and elsewhere, Amanda Hess excels at connecting our private online encounters to wider cultural shifts.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joanna Scutts

The story of pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood follows a preordained, overarching plot—ignorance to knowledge, innocence to experience—but its contours are as variable as the curves of a pregnant body or an individual digital footprint. As a longtime reporter on internet culture for The New York Times and elsewhere, Amanda Hess excels at connecting our private online encounters to wider cultural shifts.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joanna Scutts

The story of pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood follows a preordained, overarching plot—ignorance to knowledge, innocence to experience—but its contours are as variable as the curves of a pregnant body or an individual digital footprint. As a longtime reporter on internet culture for The New York Times and elsewhere, Amanda Hess excels at connecting our private online encounters to wider cultural shifts.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Joanna Scutts |Anne Berest |Claire Berest |Tina Kover

"Gabriële" considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. GABRIËLE, by Anne Berest and Claire Berest; translated by Tina KoverWhen Gabriële Buffet-Picabia died in 1985 at the age of 104, her great-granddaughters, Anne and Claire Berest, neither knew her nor knew of her.

Jan 3, 2025 | newrepublic.com | Joanna Scutts

On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between contraception and termination, sensible planning and irresponsible destruction. What Stephanie Gorton’s exhaustive history of the fight to legalize birth control makes clear, however, is that we maintain that separation at our peril.