
She became the internet’s sharp observer by admitting that she, too, was caught in it. From a Kyrgyz village to The New Yorker, her subject has remained the same: the systems we enter willingly, and the selves they ask us to become.

He went to Moscow as a feature writer, came home with a Pulitzer, and took charge of The New Yorker without surrendering the habit that got him there: asking one more question.