In fiction and in fact, these books trace how in less than 15 years, billions of people have given up a good deal of their waking life to Web 2.0
November 2019
Broadside 2019: how a feminist festival took on feminism – and forced us to think harder
Zadie Smith,Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Jia Tolentino and Nayuka Gorrie challenge their audiences to do the work at a paradigm-shifting event
October 2019
Today in Focus
Reality TV, social media and living your life online with Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino, one of the world’s greatest young essayists, discusses how the internet age has changed who we are. Plus Lisa O’Carroll on the Irish border
September 2019
Whose Story is This?; Trick Mirror; Coventry – review
Essay collections from Rebecca Solnit, Jia Tolentino and Rachel Cusk chronicle the way we live now
August 2019
Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous'
Names in the news
Vox pop superstar is a social media darling decades on
Lucy Siegle
First Thing newsletter
US briefing: China tariff threat, Greenland ice sheet and voter purges
Book of the day
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino review – on self-delusion
