"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."

What it means is that lots of people won’t be filing taxes.

Sex and art and politics and glamor -- welcome to Italian cinema! Olivia Laing's new novel THE SILVER BOOK is out and our @coryoldweiler.bsky.social gave it a read for us. In print on Sunday in the @bostonglobe.com but you can read it here now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/a...

New piece from me @southwestreview.bsky.social on Brenda Lozano’s MOTHERS, trans. by Heather Cleary. Loved this novel, particularly the way it explores how “Fear and love are not separate things; on the contrary, they’re like two fires. One doubles the other.”

Ah, the Union Sq farmers market, where you can purchase a $7 cabbage or an $8 cauliflower. New mayor has his work cut out for him.

"Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time." @coryoldweiler.bsky.social in On the Seawall about A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice. www.ronslate.com/on-a-fiction...

Thanks to @wwborders.bsky.social for letting me write about FALSE WAR, by Cuban author Carlos Manuel Álvarez, trans. by Natasha Wimmer, a novel that stylistically and narratively looks at the fragmentation of exile. (And it gave me an always-welcomed opportunity to cram Dante into the lede.)

For @bostonglobe.com, I reviewed Olivia Laing’s THE SILVER BOOK, a novel about a passionate, messy love affair in Italy and the passionate, messy world of Italian cinema. Pasolini, Fellini, Donati, amore, omicidio! Thanks to Kate Tuttle for the opportunity to write about it.

This weekend is going to be so great with a million fewer assholes in the city.

My thanks to @ronslate.bsky.social for the chance to write about Anne Milano Appel’s English-language translation of Daniele Del Giudice’s 1983 debut, A Fictional Inquiry. It’s the first time English-speakers have had a chance to read the late Italian writer’s exploration of the writing life.

Fantastic novel that I wrote about and contextualized in terms of DSP’s career. My @southwestreview.bsky.social piece from this past summer is here:

How has no one asked why he perpetually has no idea wtf is happening in the country and with the leader of his party? Is there not a single journalist with a spine or shred of pride left in this country? Helen Thomas would have ridiculed this clown.

Go off, Dame Emma! Brava!

Truly, though that would require the current Congressional Democrats to have a single clue about how to function as an opposition party outside of the rote steps of an election cycle.

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

Congress is letting damn near everything happen

You know who has not uttered any “cries”? The Republican Congress, who are enabling this petty, hateful clown and are equally culpable for the irreparable damage his administration is doing multiple times a day.

Looking forward to reading the NYer piece about motherhood in the novels of Ariana Harwicz since I pitched that same piece to them in May and was told they weren’t interested.

Just finished my annual rewatch of Station Eleven and damn that’s a perfect piece of art those folks made.

It has to be said - again and out loud - that it’s Republicans in Congress who’ve unshackled him.

Task is a good show that’s become great the past two weeks with at least four truly standout performances.

@blankcheck.bsky.social I grew increasingly awed and uncomfortable the longer Griffin’s excellent Maron impression went on because I imagined Marc was sitting right in front of him. Real tense couple minutes.

Skubal is a beast. Incredible.

Quite possibly the most glaring example of the way the media has simply become a mouthpiece—and therefore an unwitting (if we’re being charitable) enabler—of this administration’s mendacity and damage.

I really enjoyed getting to review this novel for many reasons, one of which is the fact that I got to send the review to my niece and she was actually interested because she loves the author.

In this week's @bostonglobe.com books coverage, a review by @coryoldweiler.bsky.social of Anna North's new novel, BOG QUEEN. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/a...

Simon never misses. This is both legitimately funny and so disturbing. The number of people—from corporations to tech bros to apparently journalists—who just assume that AI is something everybody wants or will want as soon as they can have it is astonishing to me.

In 2022, I wrote about Krasznahorkai for the LARB (long before *that* piece), talking about Ottilie Mulzet’s translation of the truly meditative novella “A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East.” It’s a great entry work to a daunting oeuvre.

It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

Love it. Skubal in game five.

I think @mlb.com is trying to drive fans insane by playing the same 12 commercials the entire fcuking season during Tigers games. I’m so gd sick of the oppo taco commercial. Also…another HR!

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

@seanfennessey.bsky.social @vanlathan.bsky.social Thanks for the Van OBAA episode. Really enjoyed it.

Tim Cook and Apple continue to capitulate in search of ever bigger profits.

When I said I didn’t know whether I could handle the Tigers do or die game today, that didn’t mean I wanted the internet to go out when I already have no cell service here. (Currently checking the score from the middle of the woods.)

Not sure I’ve ever seen an ERA of 108.00, which is what Melton has now.

Serenity now!!!

Dear, Detroit Tigers, I am on deadline so will you please drive home some of these many &:);&ing baserunners? Thank you!

Based solely on my timeline here it sounds like this big unprecedented meeting is going great…

Last month, the county I live in went completely dark for ~16 hrs…no cell service, no landline, no internet…all because apparently one line was cut. It was wildly disturbing in many ways, but I knew it would come back eventually. Afghans live with a variety of horrors, but this would be terrifying.

You love to see it.

Tigers/Guardians, Yankees/Red Sox…MLB’s playoff system really delivering those rare postseason matchups that fans crave.

Hyperbole is more out of control than it’s ever been

He lied. Gotta use the word

I almost never succeed at this game, so I’m sure today is laughably simple. But top 24%…I’ll take it. Vulture Cinematrix No. 550: Sep 27, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2630 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩

And the Matrix. Gee, how creative.

Interesting choice by Noah Hawley to bring the force into the Alien franchise.

I’m so tired of corporate greed and cowardice. I realize it’s my own fault for expecting/craving otherwise, but a kid can dream.

Back in March I called David Szalay’s FLESH his best work to date, which would normally be the kiss of death…