If it seemed like everyone was reading New Yorker culture critic Jia Tolentino’s debut book of essays Trick Mirror this year, that’s for a good reason: it’s an exceptionally incisive and entertaining ...

“I am always confused,” Tolentino confesses in the introduction to her first book, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, “because I can never be sure of anything, and because I am drawn to any ...

ashion is built to make you look. A sculpted wool sleeve, a shredded denim hem, a skirt that changes shape whenever you walk in the wind—style’s whole purpose is to set you apart through a series of ...

TRICK MIRROR: Reflections on Self-Delusion. By Jia Tolentino. Random House. 303 pages. $27. Jia Tolentino, a staff writer at The New Yorker since she was 28, opens her essay collection “Trick Mirror” ...

“I have felt so many times that the choice of this era is to be destroyed or to morally compromise ourselves in order to be functional — to be wrecked, or to be functional for reasons that contribute ...

Become a member of the Now Read This book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up to our newsletter. Learn more about the book club here. Our January pick for Now Read This, the PBS ...

The "Trick Mirror" author said there was a social media-driven behavior she has mixed feelings about: People hiding any behavior from their online communities that would draw shame during the global ...

What’s worth writing about at a time in history where both everything and nothing seems worthy of our attention? Anything, argues Jia Tolentino. Tolentino, at only 30 years old, is now a staff writer ...