Jia Tolentino's first essay collection, Trick Mirror, contains startling insights arrived upon through the New Yorker staff writer's own bizarre life experiences, many of which took place right here in Houston.

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

Tabitha Soren’s “Surface Tension” defamiliarizes the touch screen, where our warm animal bodies collide with the machine’s cold and boundless knowledge of the world.

The author of ‘Trick Mirror’ discusses her writing process, her favorite Houston rappers, and how she maintains a healthy sense of self in the internet age.

The autobiography, revised and expanded last year, in advance of Michael Bloomberg’s Presidential run, makes clear whom he sees and whom he doesn’t.

The mantra of “less is more” still obeys a logic of accumulation—but it hints at genuinely different ways of thinking.