"Vauhini Vara is a writer and editor in Colorado.
She began her career as a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later launched, edited and wrote for the business section of the New Yorker’s website. Since then, she has also both written and edited for The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. She writes for other publications as well, including Businessweek, where she is a contributing writer; her most recent article, published in September 2025, investigates how tech companies and school districts are pushing AI into classrooms despite inconclusive research into how it works and whether it helps or harms learning. She is also a 2025 Omidyar Network Reporter in Residence. Her journalism has been honored by the Asian American Journalists Association, the International Center for Journalists, the McGraw Center for Business Journalism, and others.
Her latest book is Searches (Pantheon, 2025), a work of journalism and memoir about how big technology companies exploit human communication and how we’re complicit in this."
- From the author's website, cited and linked below
Source citations:
"About: Vauhini Vara." Vauhini Vara, www.vauhinivara.com/. Accessed 10 Aug. 2025.
McAuliffe, Brigid. Photo of Vauhini Vara. Vauhini Vara, www.vauhinivara.com/. Accessed 10 Aug. 2025.
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Linked below are some of the books we have in the library's collection that Vahini references in her book. A longer reference list of books the author mentions is also linked in the word document below. Any books (or articles) that we don't own can likely be requested through interlibrary loan. See the "Dig Deeper" tab in this guide, or chat with a librarian for help making requests!
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
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Note: This guide was last reviewed in November 2025. Use the "Get Help" page of this guide to contact us if you encounter any accessibility issues or have questions.
This guide was created to feature One Book events and to help us learn more about the complex of issues connected to this year's One Book.
While our supply lasts, any current GRC student may pick up a free copy of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, downstairs at the Holman Library circulation desk.
Any current GRC student (or staff) can use the link below to access the online eBook version that is housed in Ebook Central, one of the library's databases. Note, the ebook cannot be downloaded or printed, but it can be viewed and accessed using the link.
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
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Green River College does not have access to the audiobook version of Searches.
To find an audio version of the book, please check for availability at KCLS, where all current GRC students have automatic access to digital materials, or SPL, which also has the audiobook available through Libby.
