Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino · 2019
Nine essays on self-delusion in the internet age. Tolentino is the essayist millennial culture deserves.
The case against
Tolentino's signature move, confessing her complicity and then proceeding anyway, works once and appears nine times; self-awareness becomes its own alibi. The essays diagnose brilliantly and refuse to conclude, ending in shrugs dressed as humility. And a book this wired into 2019's internet has aged the way screenshots age: recognizably, and fast.
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