Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

Provocative, humane, and deeply readable, Selfie is both a sweeping intellectual history and an urgent diagnosis of modern life.

This book, which NPR's On Point says is a “terrific tour through the history of self-obsession," offers readers a powerful new way to understand who we are, why we feel the way we do—and how we might loosen the grip of an ideal that was never designed to make us whole.

We live in an age of relentless self‑scrutiny. From social media feeds to self‑help mantras, we ar...