Jessica Wakeman

Chances are, you know someone who has misgivings about technology. Perhaps this person quit Facebook or downgraded from a smartphone. In Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, these same misgivings are voiced by a former Silicon Valley foot soldier.
Anna Wiener, now a writer for The New Yorker, draws on her anxiety-addled experiences working at several startups during her mid-20s. Her bosses were very young, hoodie-clad men. They ran companies fattened up with venture capital, eager to “disrupt” something...

The toxic effect of verbal harassment in the office.

Jia Tolentino describes the essays in Trick Mirror as “nine terrible children.” It’s the first book for this Extremely Online writer, who cut her teeth at women’s website The Hairpin before heading to Jezebel and finally The New Yorker.

Abigail Hitchcock teaches residents of a Manhattan shelter to cook healthy dishes they can make cheaply and easily on their own.

“The problem is when you turn to an online community, you have no idea what information you’re really getting.”

Yes, like the vegetable.

It was just as weird as it sounds.

You can see when you’ve successfully taught your daughter how to tie her shoes or make scrambled eggs. But knowing that you’ve raised her to make smart sexual choices and respect her body isn't quite so obvious.