Catherine Baab-Muguira

“It’s not always easy to enter the emotional state of those with dementia,” says Poh Yun Ru, a young designer at the National University of Singapore’s Design Incubation Center. And she would know.

In recent years, Mexico has witnessed a surge in digital banking, with many traditional banks and new entrants offering online and mobile banking services. The rise of fintech companies has also disrupted the traditional banking landscape.

Flo Health’s Sue Khan grew up observing her mother—a female doctor in 1980s Saudi Arabia—provide healthcare to women who “didn’t know their own bodies,” she says. Nowadays, her own professional life also advances the cause of female reproductive health, only from a different angle. Early this year, the London-based lawyer stepped up to direct data security and privacy initiatives at the world’s most popular menstrual-tracking app. Under Khan’s leadership, the Belarus-founded platform now lead...

All the way back in 1893, at a conference in Chicago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner introduced what’s become one of the single most influential theories of U.S. history.

In 2021, a depressed 20-something Texan named Keila Shaheen self-published a book called The Shadow Work Journal. Shaheen’s book has since become a pop-culture phenom, selling a million-plus copies, primarily through TikTok.

Colleen Hoover, CoHo to fans, might just be the biggest author you’ve (possibly) never heard of.

My publisher’s sales portal updates in massive tranches every few (or two) weeks, so naturally I check it every day. And here was an update—in fact, a huge leap, with total u...

Four different East Coast cities claim Poe, but he belongs to Richmond. Here's why.

A couple offered to buy our house and it made me cry.

Few creative careers that have risen to such heights have also been conducted under so much stress— financial stress, professional stress, familial stress, psychosexual stress—and it shows in his work.

Poe is remembered as the inventor of the horror genre, thanks to Halloween-friendly poems and stories like “The Raven” and “The Tell-tale Heart.” But his creative work can be seen as another kind of business enterprise, charting his valiant but often futile attempts to “coin one’s brain into silver.” This makes him an instructive example today, when new technologies mean that creators face some of the very same problems that they did in the 19th century, including an oversupplied market and the proliferation of free content.

Doubling down on your ambitions is the best way to get revenge, and no one ever knew this better than Poe.

If you’ve read any self-help before, then you know that most of it reads like a 90-percent redacted NSA document obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request—all the most salient details blacked out, unavailable. Exactly how many nannies, for instance, did it take for Sheryl Sandberg to Lean In? If the Rich Dad, Poor Dad guy is such a financial genius, how come he shills real-estate seminars? And if Rachel Hollis really knows how to have a successful, sexy marriage, why’d she get div...

I’d like to float a fresh theory about Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story “William Wilson,” which I think casts light on Jordan Peele's new movie Us, too.

“My mom had five kids by the time she was my age. My dad was starting his second career. And I’m still punching in my parents’ landline at CVS to get the discount.”