Patricia Lockwood: The Accidental Prophet of Global Doomscroll Culture
PARIS—Somewhere between the Vatican’s Wi-Fi dead-zones and the algorithmic cathedrals of Twitter, Patricia Lockwood has become the patron saint of Extremely Online Existentialism, a title that comes with neither a mitre nor a blue checkmark but does guarantee you’ll be quoted by melancholic graduate students from Kyoto to Kansas. If you’ve managed to miss her,…