Amanda Hess

Every AI video is like someone made a collage out of magazine cutouts and wants me to be impressed with their ability to glue

the girlboss and the tradwife are one and the same. both rely on the idea that the exceptional individual woman can resolve all the contradictions of capitalism, which is essentially anti-feminist

spoke to @nytimes about heated rivalry 🫢⭐️🏒🥅 thank you @amandahess for letting me talk about the show on everyone’s minds

Time to learn to ode

I feel bad for that monkey but I lowkey have to focus on myself right now

when you talk to your AI agent this is who you’re talking to

“Wuthering Heights” is a faithful adaptation of Jacob Elordi being 6’5”

my brain has adapted to ignore anything published with this line spacing

New York is the first state in the nation to require paid leave for prenatal care. I talked to some of the women who used it over the last year: nytimes.com/2026/02/06/nyr…

if i were a famous longevity guru i would advise my clients against dying in prison on sex trafficking charges

i hope they do learn how to speak privately. i don't need to read that

In our new issue, @madeleine_watts compiles a bibliography of writing on maternal loneliness: Amanda Hess’s “Second Life,” Olga Ravn’s “My Work”, Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Wilderness,” Lucy Jones’s “Matrescence,” and more. thebaffler.com/outbursts/mama…

"'Second Life' gives us thoroughly fresh ways to think through the fact that virtual living is now compulsory and consuming, embedded in our intimate lives for both better and worse." Isabel Davis reviews Amanda Hess's "Second Life": lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-wo…

great profile and really useful to understand why people are flocking to podcasters who are unafraid to go beast mode while the latest profile of harris has a top line takeaway of ‘wants to be heard but is not yet sure what she wants to say’

I profiled @MizzWelch, 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, @CoryBooker, @RepJeffries, @hasanthehun, @mattxiv, @NelStamp & her country club tennis bud nytimes.com/2025/12/07/sty…

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

@zachdcarter love this writer

This story is outstanding. nytimes.com/2025/11/24/mag…

'Tomorrow!' cried Toad. 'I will do it all tomorrow!'

Echoing @DavidKlion recommendation to buy @amandahess captivating new book showcasing the paradigm shift of new motherhood in the modern era as technological innovation has utterly upended what it means to have a child in America, which was reviewed for @BooksinFive below! 1/5

@AsteadWH 😭

Some life news: this is my last week at The New York Times — a place I have enjoyed working from my first story to the last. I was 25yo when I started, and the last 7 years have pushed me as a reporter and person in ways I’m forever grateful. Colleagues have made me a better journo. Pals have made me a better friend. Proud of The Run Up, the mag pieces, the stories, the Daily appearances — all of it. We cook and we move