Jia Tolentino

Sommes-nous tous devenus des créatures dInternet ? Pourquoi le mariage devient-il hype ? Loptimisation aura-t-elle notre peau? Sylvia Plath, Elena Ferrante, JK Rowling : la littérature brise-t-elle les jeunes filles ?Faut-il etre la badass Winona Ryder dans un monde peuple de Gwyneth Paltrow ? Au fil de neuf recits personnels teintes de pop culture, de sa plume precise, litte raire et ironique, Jia Tolentino dresse avec maestria des ponts entre lanecdotique et le fait societal pour nous faire passer de lautre co te de ce miroir des vanites qui nous obsede tant. "

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From The New Yorkers beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.EsquireBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times A whip-smart, challenging book.Zadie Smith Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.VultureONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLES JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review, Time, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, NPR, Variety, Esquire, Vox, Elle, Glamour, GQ, Good Housekeeping, The Paris Review, Paste, Town & Country, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, BookRiot, Shelf AwarenessJia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroines journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentinos sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet.FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY

En un momento en que el futuro asusta, Jia Tolentino nos da armas para entenderlo y adaptarnos a él. Jia Tolentino es una voz incomparable a la hora de abordar los conflictos, contradicciones y cambios que definen nuestro tiempo presente. En esta coleccion de ensayos, escritos con una combinacion magistral de ingenio y valentia, profundiza en los factores que deforman, a veces sin que nos demos cuenta, nuestra forma de observar el mundo. Falso espejo es un libro sobre lo dificil que es vernos con claridad en estos tiempos que corren, tan dados a una cultura que gira alrededor del yo-yo-yo. Tolentino escribe sobre lo que significo para ella crecer con Internet, sobre su forma de llevar la adiccion a las redes sociales y sobre las secretas relaciones entre consumir MDMA y creer en Dios. ¿Por que la sociedad convierte a niñas aguerridas en adolescentes deprimidas y adultas amargadas? ¿Por que ir en chandal, de repente, es lo mas guay del mundo? ¿Que pasa en la mente de aquellos que sueñan con ser famosos en un reality de la television? Ideas y preguntas sobre la vida contemporanea.Una mezcla inimitable de lirismo, fuerza y humor afilado. The New York Times

Jia Tolentino é uma voz sem igual na sua geração. Nestes nove ensaios, escritos numa rara combinação de agudeza e generosidade, ela investiga as forças transformadoras da visão que temos de nós mesmo

En un momento en que el futuro asusta, Jia Tolentino nos da armas para entenderlo y adaptarnos a él. Jia Tolentino es una voz incomparable a la hora de abordar los conflictos, contradicciones y cambios que definen nuestro tiempo presente. En esta coleccion de ensayos, escritos con una combinacion magistral de ingenio y valentia, profundiza en los factores que deforman, a veces sin que nos demos cuenta, nuestra forma de observar el mundo. Falso espejo es un libro sobre lo dificil que es vernos con claridad en estos tiempos que corren, tan dados a una cultura que gira alrededor del yo-yo-yo. Tolentino escribe sobre lo que significo para ella crecer con Internet, sobre su forma de llevar la adiccion a las redes sociales y sobre las secretas relaciones entre consumir MDMA y creer en Dios. ¿Por que la sociedad convierte a niñas aguerridas en adolescentes deprimidas y adultas amargadas? ¿Por que ir en chandal, de repente, es lo mas guay del mundo? ¿Que pasa en la mente de aquellos que sueñan con ser famosos en un reality de la television? Ideas y preguntas sobre la vida contemporanea.Una mezcla inimitable de lirismo, fuerza y humor afilado. The New York Times

A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year MagnificentThe Times Dazzling New Statesman It filled me with hope Zadie Smith We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorkers brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape. From the rise of the internet to her own appearance on an early reality TV show; from her experiences of ecstasy both religious and chemical to her uneasy engagement with our cultures endless drive towards self-optimisation; from the phenomenon of the successful American scammer to her generations obsession with extravagant weddings, Jia Tolentino writes with style, humour and a fierce clarity about these strangest of times. Following in the footsteps of American luminaries such as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, yet with a voice and vision all her own, Jia Tolentino writes with a rare gift for elucidating nuance and complexity, coupled with a disarming warmth. This debut collection of her essays announces her exactly the sort of voice we need to hear from right now and for many years to come.

The essay has taught me how to live, writes Jia Tolentino, this years Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection do not proselytize, nor do they claim to have all the answers. Instead, they teach with vulnerability, raw truths, and open questions. This volume offers testimonies and personal narratives about war and fear; oblivion and memory; disease, grief, and boredom; nonhuman animals and plants; poverty and hyperabundance; consciousness and solipsism; the loss of literature and the work of art; pretense and respect.THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2025 INCLUDES: ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS SARAH AZIZA JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN CAROLYN FORCHE MOSAB ABU TOHA CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ CHRISTINA SHARPE AND OTHERS