Maggie Lange

2 weeks ago | wmagazine.com | Maggie Lange

Collage by Ashley PeñaWe may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. One of the perks of long summer days: it’s not rude to simply roll over on your beach towel, away from your friends, and open a book. Below, you’ll find the best books coming out this summer, a few suggestions from the writer Melissa Febos, and a couple older books worth revisiting.

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.

1 month ago | infobae.com | Maggie Lange

Hace aproximadamente 450 años, un cirujano-barbero francés (dos profesiones que a menudo se solapaban en esa época) publicó un volumen enciclopédico asombrosamente incorrecto titulado Sobre Monstruos y Maravillas, en el que explicaba por qué algunos bebés nacían con anomalías. El autor, Ambroise Paré, enumeró cinco causas. Las primeras cuatro estaban agrupadas en conceptos duales; la última se presentaba de manera independiente.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Maggie Lange

The goofy, devious, alarming world of big data for anxious parents (washingtonpost.com) The goofy, devious, alarming world of big data for anxious parents By Maggie Lange 2025050912002900 About 450 years ago, a French surgeon-barber (two commonly overlapping professions at the time) published an astonishingly incorrect encyclopedic volume, "On Monsters and Marvels," to explain why some babies were born with abnormalities.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Maggie Lange

How 2000s pop culture taught us that sex is a currency (washingtonpost.com) How 2000s pop culture taught us that sex is a currency By Maggie Lange 2025042913005700 Toward the end of "Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves," Sophie Gilbert makes a statement so clear-eyed that it's startling: "For much of the aughts, the most popular pastime across culture and entertainment was watching and looking at women." America looked at women on reality television,...