The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
“This is a book to shake up the world.” —Ann Patchett
Nicholas Carr’s bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story up to date, with a deep examination of the cognitive and behavioral effects of smartphones and social media.
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Glass Cage, and Utopia is Creepy. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, and Wired. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife.
A modern classic of internet criticism.
— Quartz
Silent Spring for the literary mind.
— Slate
Eloquent.
— Chicago Tribune
Riveting.
— San Francisco Chronicle
Absorbing [and] disturbing.
— Wall Street Journal
Essential.
— Salon
Provocative.
— Boston Globe
Rewarding.
— Financial Times
A book everyone should read.
— American Scientist
Grade: A.
— Newsweek
— Quartz
Silent Spring for the literary mind.
— Slate
Eloquent.
— Chicago Tribune
Riveting.
— San Francisco Chronicle
Absorbing [and] disturbing.
— Wall Street Journal
Essential.
— Salon
Provocative.
— Boston Globe
Rewarding.
— Financial Times
A book everyone should read.
— American Scientist
Grade: A.
— Newsweek