Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was the deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. In 2023, she won a National Magazine Award for Columns and Essays. Her first book, the essay collection “Trick Mirror,” was published in 2019.
Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
With “The Sympathizer,” the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” comes to American television.
Legal Weed in New York Was Going to Be a Revolution. What Happened?
Lawsuits. Unlicensed dispensaries. Corporations pushing to get in. The messy rollout of a law that has tried to deliver social justice with marijuana.
Julia Fox Didn’t Want to Be Famous, but She Knew She Would Be
A conversation with the multi-hyphenate It Girl and former dominatrix about her new memoir, the horrible men she has known, and becoming a mom.
Naomi Klein Sees Uncanny Doubles in Our Politics
A conversation with the writer about her new book, “Doppelganger,” and the strange intersections of right and left.
What to Do with Climate Emotions
If the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?
Who Is Matty Healy?
For the front man of the 1975, fame is its own kind of performance.
Jai Paul, a Mysterious Pop Legend, Is Finally Performing
In his New York début, he was stiff at first, but the crowd loosened him up, and his voice soared.
Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
A popular, growing class of drugs for obesity and diabetes could, in an ideal world, help us see that metabolism and appetite are biological facts, not moral choices.
Karen O Has Found a More Joyful Kind of Wildness
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman on recording the band’s new album, becoming a mother, and meeting other rock stars who look like her.
Is Abortion Sacred?
Abortion is often talked about as a grave act. But bringing a new life into the world can feel like the decision that more clearly risks being a moral mistake.
We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse
We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.
Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
In “Essential Labor,” Angela Garbes argues that care work should be public and universal.
Another Risk in Overturning Roe
The decision rejects the idea of fetal personhood—which anti-abortion groups have been pushing on state legislatures.
Candace Bushnell Is Back in the City
The “Sex and the City” writer on being ambitious, getting older, and making it in New York.
How Britney Spears Got Free, and What Comes Next
Spears fought for years to end the conservatorship she was under, and finally won. But the legal battles aren’t over.
After a Year Without Crowds, Caroline Polachek Takes the Stage
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.
S.B. 8 and the Texas Preview of a World Without Roe v. Wade
The new law, an employee of Whole Woman’s Health said, has been “nothing short of devastating for our providers, our staff, and our patients.”
Picturing the Humanity and Dread of the Infinite Scroll
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.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare
How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.
The Depressive Realism of “The Life of the Mind”
Christine Smallwood’s début novel inhabits the abyss between what we think about and what we actually do.
Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
With “The Sympathizer,” the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” comes to American television.
Legal Weed in New York Was Going to Be a Revolution. What Happened?
Lawsuits. Unlicensed dispensaries. Corporations pushing to get in. The messy rollout of a law that has tried to deliver social justice with marijuana.
Julia Fox Didn’t Want to Be Famous, but She Knew She Would Be
A conversation with the multi-hyphenate It Girl and former dominatrix about her new memoir, the horrible men she has known, and becoming a mom.
Naomi Klein Sees Uncanny Doubles in Our Politics
A conversation with the writer about her new book, “Doppelganger,” and the strange intersections of right and left.
What to Do with Climate Emotions
If the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?
Who Is Matty Healy?
For the front man of the 1975, fame is its own kind of performance.
Jai Paul, a Mysterious Pop Legend, Is Finally Performing
In his New York début, he was stiff at first, but the crowd loosened him up, and his voice soared.
Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
A popular, growing class of drugs for obesity and diabetes could, in an ideal world, help us see that metabolism and appetite are biological facts, not moral choices.
Karen O Has Found a More Joyful Kind of Wildness
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman on recording the band’s new album, becoming a mother, and meeting other rock stars who look like her.
Is Abortion Sacred?
Abortion is often talked about as a grave act. But bringing a new life into the world can feel like the decision that more clearly risks being a moral mistake.
We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse
We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.
Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
In “Essential Labor,” Angela Garbes argues that care work should be public and universal.
Another Risk in Overturning Roe
The decision rejects the idea of fetal personhood—which anti-abortion groups have been pushing on state legislatures.
Candace Bushnell Is Back in the City
The “Sex and the City” writer on being ambitious, getting older, and making it in New York.
How Britney Spears Got Free, and What Comes Next
Spears fought for years to end the conservatorship she was under, and finally won. But the legal battles aren’t over.
After a Year Without Crowds, Caroline Polachek Takes the Stage
The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.
S.B. 8 and the Texas Preview of a World Without Roe v. Wade
The new law, an employee of Whole Woman’s Health said, has been “nothing short of devastating for our providers, our staff, and our patients.”
Picturing the Humanity and Dread of the Infinite Scroll
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.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare
How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.
The Depressive Realism of “The Life of the Mind”
Christine Smallwood’s début novel inhabits the abyss between what we think about and what we actually do.