
Jia Tolentino
Staff Writer at The New Yorker
Rosie Perez in the credits of Do The Right Thing / writer @newyorker / author of Trick Mirror
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Casey N. Cep |Jia Tolentino |Julian Lucas |Margaret Talbot
Summer is here, and with it summer reading. Every week, the New Yorker’s editors and critics select the best new books we’ve read in 2025 so far. This year, we’ve also asked the magazine’s writers to suggest favorite mega-reads—sizable, sprawling novels, biographies, and works of history that will keep you absorbed and entertained until the end of the season. Their selections are below. “He had to go fast, like an American, or he was all torpor.
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4 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Rachel Syme |Hilton Als |Helen Shaw |Sheldon Pearce |Taran Dugal |Jia Tolentino
Summer is a season ripe for scandal; people tend to be overheated and understimulated, looking to mist their crisping minds with idle gossip. Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a new large-scale portrait at the Salon, then the world’s most influential summer art show.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino
I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor. I sometimes look up words after I write them: does “illegible” still mean too messy to read?
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Feb 18, 2025 |
interviewmagazine.com | Jia Tolentino |Jake Nevins
To get this out of the way, I’m wildly biased when it comes to Haley Mlotek. I’ve been enamored of her since we first met over a decade ago, when she and Jazmine Hughes took over the editorship of the dearly, monstrously departed website The Hairpin from Emma Carmichael and me.
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Dec 7, 2024 |
businessandamerica.com | Jia Tolentino
The particulars of this murder are strange and remarkable: it occurred in public; the suspected shooter went to Starbucks beforehand; he got away from the scene via bicycle; he has not yet been found. But the public reaction has been even wilder, even more lawless. The jokes came streaming in on every social-media platform, in the comments underneath every news article.
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RT @joshgondelman: A couple of New Yorkers in the New Yorker. https://t.co/prgGLYdFCa

This might be my favorite nonfiction of 2020 so far, with this tension between rebellion and obligation, love and atrocity all the way through it: reading it felt like watching firecrackers go off https://t.co/ZuJyzB0IBs

RT @kenklippenstein: https://t.co/XFc3zasULV