About a million years ago, I worked with a freelancer who struggled with deadlines. I know, what a unique story! But I specifically remember the day they emailed to say that they wouldn't be able to complete an assignment because their best friend had killed themself the night

Don't act like you are unfamiliar with the Duggar family. Those Arkansas pronatalists, celebrated by a multitude of TLC reality shows, were the subject of 2023 Prime Video expose Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (which I wrote about for Vanity Fair). They had a lot of kids,

Hi there! Welcome to the second first issue of The Pleat, a publication from Eve Batey (that's me). If you're seeing this, you signed up to the last iteration of this thing a few years ago — and you might have forgotten about it in the interim!