Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! For @npr, I reviewed a fantastic new graphic biography by Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen: www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

In partnership with the Embassy of Sweden, join us for a special evening that explores Jewish identity, memory, and storytelling across borders—highlighting the vibrant and diverse experiences of Jewish life in Sweden. capitaljewishmuseum.org/events/explo...

I wrote a few words on that AI-companion piece: Maximizing profits by exploiting our deepest vulnerabilities; or, some thoughts on AI so-called "companions" www.tahneeroksman.com/the-future-o...

For @npr.org, I reviewed Jeff Lemire's "sort of memoir," 10,000 INK STAINS: www.npr.org/2025/07/14/n...

It was an absolute delight talking with @tahneeroksman.bsky.social about my book last night! Thanks to everyone who came out. (And if you'd still like to purchase a copy you can use code F24UIP for 30% off when you buy from @illinoispress.bsky.social 😉)

I’ll be talking about my book at NYC's The Coffee House next Wed 7/9 at 6:30 w/ the brilliant @tahneeroksman.bsky.social! Join us for a conversation about all things Elaine May. Plus there will be clips! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1397126485...

Alumna @tahneeroksman.bsky.social, who created an Audible lecture series about memoirs, shares her book picks in time for summer www.gc.cuny.edu/news/these-m...

Just in time for summer: I wrote a listicle of memoirs to read. Some of my all-time favorites! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/these-m...

Fascinating study out about lateral reading practices among students and the dissociation between their knowledge of lateral reading strategies as the best ways of catching misinformation vs. their limited actual engagement with these practices: digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @emilymbender.bsky.social) It's out for release on May 13, 2025! thecon.ai

"Will Writing Survive A.I?" is one of the more terrible headlines I've read recently (NYT, "Will Writing Survive A.I.? The Media Startup Every Is Betting on It," May 21, 2025).

For @npr.org's summer book list, I recommended an upcoming graphic novel, The Age of Video Games: A Graphic History Gaming from Pong to VR and Beyond by Jean Zeid, illustrated by Emilie Rouge, translated by Jen Vaughn. The full list is here: www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Did you know platforms where AI "helpers" are popping up are very likely using documents you open/create in order to train AI? Yep, it's often an automated setting. Go into Adobe, for ex., and check out your privacy and data settings. You can turn this setting off, but it might take a few minutes.

I have an essay in this collection! Coming to bookstores in July. www.publishersweekly.com/9781668078334

For WaPo, I wrote about the new Crumb biography: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

NBCC member @tahneeroksman.bsky.social was part of an initiative of scholars, teachers, and critics recording videos about the 8 most banned books. Tahneer discussed The "Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel," written by Margaret Atwood and adapted and illustrated by Renée Nault:

On Right to Read Day, help me spread the word about this wonderful new initiative, Banned Books: Why Young People Need The,. You'll find eight videos by scholars and teachers explaining the value of eight of the most frequently banned books in America: lsa.umich.edu/social-solut...

I received my copy of @zarielle.bsky.social's Twelve Stories by American Women, out with @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social. It looks amazing! I'm looking forward to an opportunity to teach this entire collection. Order it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743329...

Amazing starred review for Abortion Stories from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! They write: "It’s hard to imagine a public library that shouldn’t have a copy." I couldn't imagine a better endorsement! Read their blurb here: www.libraryjournal.com/review/abort...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

This event is next Tuesday! If you're in NYC, please join me, Renee Bracy Sherman, Rebecca Traister, and Vanessa Perez-Rosario. I'll share stories about some of my favorite pieces in the book and what they taught me about the history of abortion. We need abortion stories now more than ever.

Shameless promotion time for me! Over at #rutgers we've put together a great panel for late April on the future of #journalism featuring some great minds (RU grads, natch) from across the industry. I'll keep putting details out there.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Read @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social's introduction for a powerful explanation of why we need writing about feminist pedagogy now more than ever.

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

JWA's new Online History Course on "Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience" starts this Thursday! Please join us!

Glad to see this CFP: Women Studies Quarterly (WSQ) is looking for essays and researched articles on the "social, affective, and political consequences of living with chronic illness." Deadline March 14. #chronicillness, #humanities, #feministtheory, #feministwriting, @feministpress.bsky.social

NBCC member @tahneeroksman.bsky.social reviewed Kay Sohini's "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City" for The Washington Post:

I was asked to reflect on my experience writing Pregnancy Test, and if I had more space I would have added that this book was just so enjoyable to research and write. The history and technology of the pregnancy test was more surprising than I could have imagined: www.bloomsbury.com/us/pregnancy...

For The Washington Post, I reviewed Kay Sohini's THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0... It's paywalled but here's a snippet: “'Leaving is not always an exercise in sadness,' Sohini declares late in the book...

We made a Jewish feminist starter pack for our great new community here! Who should we add? go.bsky.app/MNtodjs

There were better shows on Netflix when it cost $10 a month

New Yorkers! 🌷Tomorrow! “Soviet-Born” book talk with Tahneer Oksman 🌷Brooklyn Library, Tuesday 14, 6pm bklynlib.org/3W2iN0G

Shout out to Lina Khan's FTC and the amazing work they have been doing, summarized in this post. This what a functioning regulatory body looks like & what we should continue to hold as expectations even in the face of pressure to normalize anything less. www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...

Good morning, feminist film scholars and historians of bluesky! Might I recommend this wonderful deep dive by @cinemariasf.bsky.social into the work of under-heralded Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett? lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

Getting a head start on my Women’s Literary Traditions course. Pictured here: Nella Larsen’s Passing; Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies; Celeste Ang’s Everything I Never Told You; and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.

NBCC member Tahneer Oksman released a lecture series, "Why Memoir Matters: Learning from the Lives of Others," through The Great Courses on Audible:

Can’t wait to read this amazing new book on Jewish photography in Nazi Germany!

This looks to be a productive, integrative approach--a counterexample to the institutions currently creating AI-themed programs that seem, intentionally or not, siloed/ separate from functioning depts and programs across the rest of these institutions: criticalai.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for.../

For some years, I discussed various online platforms with students as spaces where more niche tv shows could potentially find their audiences. Of course that hasn’t been the case for some time & this piece helps me understand a bit of how we got here… www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

I am not a digital humanities scholar. My interest in digital media has always been tied to my work as a writing/journalism teacher and as a memoir scholar (and frankly also to my life as a parent and as a curious and active participant in a quickly shifting world).... (1 of 2)

The best Jewish memoir last year? My piece on it for @theconversation.com. @rachelcockerell.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-five-bes...

The outcome of this case will be a really big deal to the future of abortion access in American states that have banned or limited abortion.

This graphic novel—and the collaboration that inspired it—is well worth diving into. Read the interview about CLAY FOOTED GIANTS by Mark McGuire and Alain Chevarier, and check out the interview with visuals, up on @comicsjournal.bsky.social www.tcj.com/its-not-an-h...

A few thoughts on AI & plagiarism in the classroom, borrowing from methods of preventing plagiarism from the before times:

So excited for this!!!