RECENT THOUGHTS | Sherry Turkle

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SHERRY'S RECENT THOUGHTS

Essays by Sherry Turkle appear on a wide variety of platforms including Time, Thrive, and Medium. Click on the links below to read Sherry's recent thoughts on empathy, the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we grieve the loss of our loved ones.

Lit Hub: Writing a Memoir Taught Me How to See My Mother

Until I was five years old, my mother and I lived with her parents in Flatbush, Brooklyn. We never talked about my father. We never said...

Tablet: The Knock at the Door

My mother divorced my father when I was 2. We never spoke of him. We never said his name. I grew up in Brooklyn, near the Prospect Park...

Harvard Business Review: Empathy Rules

In August 2021, my employer, MIT, announced that all instruction, without exception, would be in person, with vaccination and regular...

Medium: I Went to Paris to Mourn My Mother

Like Proust and his madeleine cake, the taste of pain d’épices still reminds me of my initial grief I dropped out of college after my...

Thrive: Coming Out Of the Pandemic With Fresh Eyes

Arianna Huffington interviews Sherry Turkle. The Empathy Diaries. A turn to memoir. How would you summarize the premise of your new book?...

Time Magazine: The Pandemic Made Us Strangers to Ourselves

All my career, I’ve studied what happens when the virtual encroaches on the most private moments of our lives. Having screens always on...