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Essays, features, and profiles for The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Oprah Daily, People, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more.
Oprah Daily
Don’t Fall For These AI “Therapy” Tricks
Chatbots are designed to tell you what you want to hear, not actually help you. Here’s what to watch out for.
Harper’s Bazaar
How Therapy-Speak Became the Love Language of the Modern Workplace
In an era of worsening mental health, we’ve evolved new ways to talk about our feelings at work.
The Guardian
The Simple Trick That Can Sabotage Your Critical Thinking
Influencers and politicians use snappy cliches to get you on their side – but you can fight fire with fire
People
When Celebrity Lookalikes Go Too Far
“Lookalikes’ devotional cosplay may seem like a ‘bit’ at first, nothing more than flattering fun, but it can creep into dangerous territory,” writes Amanda Montell
NYTimes.com
Can You Guess These 10 Wacky Words From the Scripps Spelling Bee?
From nonsense terms to 20th-century slang, these words from past Scripps Bee competitions or training lists will test your pop cultural knowledge, Latin chops, and spelling skills.
LATimes.com
Think Life Keeps Getting Worse? Trying Being Nostalgic for the Present
Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age…
Cosmopolitan.com
Influencer Witches of Instagram
Meet the mystical millennials who are spellbinding the internet.
MarieClaire.com
What It’s Like to Die Online
Chronically ill women are turning to YouTube to share their lives-and deaths.
Cosmopolitan.com
A Toxic Relationship Is Just a Cult of One
According to the author of the new book Cultish, all you need to know to understand followers of groups like QAnon and Heaven’s Gate is what it feels like to fall in love…
MarieClaire.com
Your Favorite Influencers Aren’t Writing Their Own Content-These Women Are
Ghostwriting for social media stars is the secret new Millennial It-career.
Who What Wear
Jane Fonda Cordially Invites You to Come Get Arrested
The 82-year-old climate activist says, “There’s hope”-if we follow her lead.
Who What Wear
Chloë Grace Moretz on Fashion, Feminism, and the Future of Her Career
I’m trying not to spill cold brew on the rainbow of expensive garments currently hanging like fresh fruits from an iron rack at a loft in Downtown Los Angeles when Chloë Grace Moretz arrives for her photo shoot, right on time, wearing a sundress spattered with cherries.
Who What Wear
Welcome to Shailene Woodley’s Saturn Return
“Despite how externally positive I might have been, I was internally at war with myself throughout a lot of my 20s.”
Who What Wear
Chloë Sevigny on Flirting, Female Power, and Being a Freak Before It Was Cool
“I just feel like every time I come to Hollywood, I’m dressed like a weirdo,” Chloë Sevigny says matter-of-factly. We’re lounging around a glass coffee table in a hotel suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills: me, Sevigny, and Kristen Stewart, her co-star in the duo’s new film, Lizzie.
Who What Wear
Maggie Rogers on New Fame and Finding Her Style Identity
“Just yesterday somebody told me that I was intimidating,” Maggie Rogers tells me, ambivalent chuckles bookending her statement. Rogers and I are on a transcontinental phone call discussing her new album, Heard It in a Past Life, which dropped in January this year, as well as the ever-swelling attention and tumult (and criticism) accompanying it.