Emily Bobrow is a staff reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal’s Review section. Previously, she worked as a staff editor and writer at at The Economist.
Why Are Women Both Sadder and Happier Than Men?
An investigation into the so-called "Female Happiness Paradox"
Two new memoirs about polyamory and divorce
Leslie Jamison and Molly Roden Winter explore modern marriage
On Gaza, an American Rabbi Decries Hamas but Finds Fault With Israel’s Leaders Too
Sharon Brous criticizes those on both sides who embrace violence as an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Scott Pelley Doesn’t Want You to Look Away From Ukraine
The ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, winner of 51 Emmys, has thrived on showing viewers ‘what they should be paying attention to.’
Championing Diversity From Inside Google
Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company’s not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive
A Free-Speech Advocate Says That Colleges Are Doing It Wrong
Greg Lukianoff fights efforts to silence controversial voices on college campuses: ‘This just makes it worse.’
An Astronaut With ‘Bad Eyesight and a Fear of Heights’
Mike Massimino hopes that people can see themselves in his tales from orbit, including a nearly disastrous blunder fixing the Hubble telescope
Jesmyn Ward returns with an evocative tale of slavery
“Let Us Descend” takes its name from Dante’s vision of hell
Will Rose Zhang Be Golf’s Next Tiger Woods?
The 20-year-old phenom outdid his college-tournament record while at Stanford. How far can she go while still doing homework?
A Tech Pioneer Focused on Making AI a Force for Good
Fei-Fei Li was jolted a decade ago by a question from her mother: ‘What can AI do to help people?’
Alice McDermott Is OK With Being Called a ‘Woman’s Novelist’
Her search for the ‘underside of a story’ often leads her to depict the interior lives of women, including in her newest book
Matthew McConaughey’s Book for Children Came to Him in a Dream
The actor and bestselling author woke up at 2:30 a.m. to scribble down rhyming couplets that ‘looked like they could be useful to youngsters’
Ken Burns Turns His Camera on America’s Beleaguered Buffalo
The famed documentary maker argues that it’s patriotic to examine this ‘epic American calamity’
Jhumpa Lahiri Has Found a Place of Contentment
Raised in Rhode Island, the Pulitzer-winning writer has found ‘rootedness’ in Rome, but her characters still struggle with dislocation
Werner Herzog Calls His 70-Plus Films ‘A Distraction.’ Instead, You Should Read His Book.
The 81-year-old director chronicles his real-life exploits in a new memoir, from working as arena clown to falsifying shooting permits