Can one cure existential ills via sweating in beautiful places? I'm sure trying! keziahweir.substack.com/p/its-sauna-...

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

In conversation with VF this morning, Graham Platner swore that he didn’t know the tattoo’s connotations until very recently; when asked whether he would have removed it if he’d been aware previously, he said that he had already covered it up.

I talked to Graham Platner about the Nazi tattoo. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/g...

The @guardian publishes the names of Gaza children killed by Israel. 18,457 and growing. (“Does not include thousands still buried under the rubble”) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

For @vanityfair.com, I chatted with Mona Awad about 'We Love You, Bunny,' out today. www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

I was interviewed for Vanity Fair about the connection between Paltrow, GOOP and MAHA www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Here's some of the weird stuff going on with AI and literature these days, plus 12 really good books written (almost entirely 😉) by humans to kick off your summer reading. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

My HTLYM publishes in two weeks but you can read some of it here in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Amid sweeping attacks on the freedom to read, these novels deal with essential questions of what it means to be a human in this world. VF’s picks for 16 books to read this month:

For @vanityfair.com I spoke with José Andrés, whose World Central Kitchen is using dwindling supplies to make meals in Gaza and whose colleagues were killed by Israeli and Russian attacks, about working through grief. www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about Meta's defense of training its AI on millions of pirated books, including: they didn't read the pirated copies, it would be annoying to license them, and they don't think the books are individually worth anything to them, anyway. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Thank you @keziahweir.bsky.social for the interview with @marklemley.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

"The Fascism Expert at Yale Who’s Fleeing America" @keziahweir.bsky.social talks to Jason Stanley www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

"Democracy comes before the price of eggs. But what I think is particularly foolish and naive and stupid is to give up democracy *and* raise the price of eggs." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

A Friday treat: eavesdrop on Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar's Bay Area roadtrip courtesy of @nickhilden.bsky.social. “Kaveh is team poetry and I’m team novel, and we were both trying to recruit each other for each other’s teams, then realized we could play for both.” www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

For @vanityfair.com I wrote about someone poisoning their neighbor's trees—but also about climate change, and the brilliance of oaks, and what it means to live in community together. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Of course I picked Ina Garten's memoir (her Outrageous Brownies recipe remains undefeated) for @vanityfair.com's roundup of the best books of 2024. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Hate picking favorites. Love proselytizing about good books. The latter impulse won. Here are 21 of the @vanityfair.com staff's most beloved 2024 reads. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Cher's memoir is, in big part, a love letter to (and mourning song for) reproductive rights, and the doctors who perform essential care. I wrote about it for @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

These Trump cabinet picks are really crystalizing how much I love artists, intellectuals, feminists, academics, librarians, musicians, writers, poets, people who wear glasses, and basically anybody who has ever held, read or enjoyed a book.

This year my debut novel came out in paperback with the most beautiful easter egg of a cover. If you pick up a copy from your favorite local indie it will make a bookseller happy, it will make me happy, and it will make you happy—a win-win-win! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

was asked by Vanity Fair what art has helped with the past week & I talked about the work of Lee Bul, a groundbreaking Korean artist with a 1989 performance piece that involved hanging nude from the rafters while talking about her experience of abortion

For @vanityfair.com I wrote about "your body, my choice," the MAGA penis obsession, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

VF's on the app! I'm on the app! I chatted with Dev Patel for the VF Hollywood Issue! Delight all around!