Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia TolentinoNEW 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.Esquire Book 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.Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLES JOHN LEONARD PRIZE

Big City in 1984

and semi-retired lifelong academics

and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic

they rarely lose it

Over the course of the dinner

I felt completely free

is called in to help the police with the murder of a young mother who has been brutally killed and a pentagram carved in her forehead

emotional and vitally important book

Because Milly's mother is a serial killer

and despair by a rebel author equally adept at poetry and prose

1 billion more people are now living in poverty

on mythological figures