Margaret Talbot

published in The New Yorker
Home economics - what we think of as cooking, sewing, household cleaning, etc. - became a core class in middle and high schools across the country at the turn of the 20th century. Talbot reviews Danielle Dreilinger's new book, "The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live" (Norton).
1068 days ago

published in The New Yorker
Many people envision themselves doing some other career in their lives. But it's very difficult to start over from scratch after we have built years and years of knowledge around one thing. Talbot reflects on learning new things that we will never master and why that may be useful in some way.
1142 days ago