Sheila Heti writes for a generation that seeks guidance from fortune-tellers, self-help books, behavioural science, evolutionary biology, make-up tutorials and lists of the food famous people consume ...

In 2014, the New Yorker staff writer Emily Witt, then in her early 30s ... the insecure general-interest reader by making its ...

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