An hour long discussion about China's stolen children and adoption with KQED radio. Some fascinating questions from adoptive parents. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

"It is this unshowy, subtle approach that makes her book the very best kind of nonfiction, and Demick its peerless practitioner." Thank you. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

This is the LAPD cop who (allegedly, I add, because we believe in due process) shot the Australian journalist in the leg. Look at the video. What is LAPD doing about it? #cpj

Here's footage of the military parade. Look familiar? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgF...

BBC Book of the week. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

The Guardian did a very nice job giving you a taste of my new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Speaking of New York Times book reviews, I'm very excited to read that Naomi Xu Elegant's Gingko Season praised as a "superb debut novel." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

New York Times today. "Demick... is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

A very courageous Chinese adoptee told me her story. Here it is: www.newyorker.com/news/america...

I'm honored "At the Edge of Empire" has won the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize for nonfiction from China Books Review @chinabksreview.bsky.social at the Asia Society @asiasociety.bsky.social. The prize recognizes writing on China and the Sinophone world: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2...

Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives.

New Yorkers, come hear @barbarademick.bsky.social’s first talk about her amazing new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” at The Strand on Monday. It’s an epic story of Chinese twin sisters cruelly separated, one adopted and raised in America. Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...

I'm nearly done reading @barbarademick.bsky.social's "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" (as rec'd by @matthewjbell.bsky.social). Fascinating and eerie to hear this story on @theworld.org with that full context so top of mind: theworld.org/stories/2025...

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...

Identical twins. One Chinese, one American. How they were separated, how they were reunited and what their story tells us about China and the United States. May 22, launch event for my new book Daughters of the Bamboo Grove at the Asia Society. asiasociety.org/new-york/eve...

Will the Supreme Court stop Donald Trump? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... @ruthmarcus.bsky.social

The Washington Post's spiked column, now online in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

Stories about Ruth Marcus ex of Wash Post describe her as a "liberal" columnist. But her writing was not about espousing a political viewpoint as much as upholding the rule of law, the foundation of any democracy. That's the tragedy here. Last column.. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Is Trump now Putin's ally? If so, why? I took a stab at this question. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

A description of the Kremlin press pool around the start of Vladimir Putin’s second term, from CJR. www.cjr.org/feature/what...

It’s not hard to see where this is going.

Where are the students? Just walked by a very quiet Columbia campus. This is the time we really need them....

Still nothing from Students for Justice in Palestine on their Twitter account about Trump's many horrific statements about Gaza. It's like they only protest Democrats....as some of us told you last year.

Evan's essay on 美退中进 ages really well-- sadly.

Exactly 100 years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald saw it coming: "They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Ruth Marcus is essential reading. If anybody can provide guidance as to preventing the dissolution of our republic, it is her. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Predictable, but... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Exciting new book about China, America and international adoption coming this May, from the great @barbarademick.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611356...

Very excited that my first book, Logavina Street, has been published in Farsi...