amanda hess

Tech companies are powerfully influencing our relationships with our kids, starting before they’re even born. I wrote a book about the surveillance, commodification and eugenic thinking embedded in everything from period trackers to baby monitors, and you can buy it now bookshop.org/p/books/seco...

I wrote a book and it's out today. This is not a drill. Get the book critics are calling "captivating, charged and crucially provocative": SECOND LIFE: HAVING A CHILD IN THE DIGITAL AGE bookshop.org/p/books/seco...

I profiled Parker Posey, the brilliant "indie queen" who long waited for Hollywood to wake up and say: “Wow, Parker Posey can play more than a contemporary New Yorker with a lot of problems.” Now she's on "The White Lotus," slaying as a whole new archetype—the mother. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

the first look at SECOND LIFE is in the @nytimes.com magazine this week! The internet distorted my imagination around my child before he was even born — then forced me to grapple with how much of our real life to share. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/m...

I profiled @mizzwelch.bsky.social, who wakes up at 5 a.m., calls out Democratic leaders to their faces, then runs her own interior design empire—with comments from @rahmemanuel.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and her country club tennis bud www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...

I reviewed BARBIELAND by Tarpley Hitt, a book about scheming doll people, which I loved www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

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