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Searches

Selfhood in the Digital Age
By Vauhini Vara
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One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025 When Vauhini Vara was fourteen,... Read More
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Searches

A personal and provocative exploration of how technology companies have reshaped human language, and, if we let them, could steal it from us.

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One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025

One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025

One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025

One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025

When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human, Vara instead turned to the fledgling internet with her questions. Those seminal early experiences influenced her decision to become a technology reporter; decades later, she used a predecessor to ChatGPT to help her write about her sister's death.

In this provocative, timely and highly personal account of our interdependent relationship with technology, she examines the early days of the internet, the encroachment of social media into our lives and how we might work with AI in the future.

Brimming with candour, humour and a probing, roving intelligence, Searches anoints Vara, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as an essential voice for our moment.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804710685

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Grove Press

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atlantic, The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) and This is Salvaged. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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