“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment.” —Sara Roy interviewed by Max Nelson https://go.nybooks.com/3YWMcds

David Cole (@davidcole-gtown.bsky.social) on Trump’s illegal, imperial war on Venezuela

Wrote a little year in review thing about our deranged country email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-axtic-...

Fat Baldglesias

“In the publicly traded world of Netflix and the breathless business reporting that follows it around, the growing success of arthouses and revival houses is an inconvenience best ignored.” —A.S. Hamrah

I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Olivia Nuzzi's butthole

Doing an archive crossword; what the hell does this answer mean?

Proud to publish this thoughtful review of Peter Hujar's Day by Hujar expert and man of good taste @andrew-durbin.bsky.social

Even if the Epstein scandal never deposed Trump, can we please be rid of Larry Summers and his appalling idiocy and amorality forever?

“My father started to feel like a ghost. The distance wasn’t just physical. It felt as if I was losing the man who raised me.”

Delighted to bring you: @fucktheory.bsky.social on the Broadway Godot: "Beckett with emotional subtitles"

FT (@fucktheory.bsky.social) on Bill & Ted’s Beckett adventure

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz." the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness. via @katieprout.bsky.social

Dan Chiasson on Zohran, Bernie, socialism, biryani, and the DSA

Wallace Shawn shares some interesting insights in this interview about his political evolution and why he moved further to the left in his 40s.

As you mourn the downsizing of another magazine, and the layoffs that come with it, ask yourself: have i ever sniffily shared an archive.is link to an article to "help" people get around the paywall?

“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people in Chicago.” —Duncan Hosie

This Sunday, come to the Brooklyn Book Fest and watch me bother @andrealongchu.bsky.social, @jeremygordon.bsky.social, and Sarah Chihaya about criticism

I interviewed Walter Shaub about the mechanics of Trump's takeover of the civil service www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

“What makes trees easier to photograph than people is that trees are endlessly patient and have not an ounce of vanity.” —Benjamin Swett, interviewed by Daniel Drake

“Trust your instincts as a reporter. Take risks, do cool projects, have fun. Don’t be a chore to read.” —@maxrn.bsky.social, interviewed by @drakemotel.bsky.social

Big night in Chicago

wrote about ocean www.vulture.com/article/ocea...

Nawal Arjini and Willa Glickman on Eric Adams’s lessons from Trumpism

This week I interviewed @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social about what would constitute a constitutional crisis

“I wonder if nonfiction somehow taps into my (otherwise largely suppressed) competitive instincts. I never feel competitive when I’m writing fiction.” —Sally Rooney, interviewed by Daniel Drake

I interviewed Sally Rooney about snooker, sportswriting, and the far right in Ireland; but also don't you love the headline

Nadia Abu El-Haj on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil

The free market does afford readers the opportunity to choose to subscribe to a publication that is not constrained from expressing an array of ideas about economics. subscribe.nybooks.com/ecom/nyb/app...

I think my old essay about Trump's tweets and the Democrats' nerdy insistence on "correcting" them may still be relevant

"Let’s not forget: Republicans can’t govern, they’re unpopular, and they’re led by the most idiotic president in living memory. They are beatable."

It truly does need to be emphasized that for all their power and all their evil, we are not fighting supervillains. We are fighting misshapen, weak, cowardly little men who are fundamentally useless and incompetent.

I interviewed @josephoneill.bsky.social again about what the Democrats need to do: actual opposition

“Already the administration has defied federal court orders to resume paying federal grants. The polite term for what we’re seeing is ‘constitutional crisis.’” —@josephoneill.bsky.social

This appeared today from @nybooks.com, on the need for Democrats to oppose the Republican dictatorship. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

When can we throw you under the bus Matt

Me listening to sayonara wondering why I never want to leave a party youtu.be/bB1-0vysais?...

Make Kennedys Dead Again

Ben Tarnoff (@bentarnoff.com) on the big babies who took over the country www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

"Her prose has the clean, placeless scent of laundry detergent."

Trusk and Mumps

Jaigabite

Marianne Faithfull has been one of my favorite artists since high school. For the last few weeks I’ve been listening to Broken English over and over. It’s one of my favorite albums it always brings me comfort. The title track especially. RIP Marianne. You were real as fuck.

"Marianne Faithfull may not live forever, but she became eternal a long time ago." stillalive-redux.vercel.app/articles/mar...

A thread in honor of the Legend Marianne Faithfull

This bald dipshit needs to be hounded out of polite society