I'm in the new issue of @nybooks.com thinking about Bill Gates, whose point-blank execution in the South Park movie by a US general who's angry about the shittiness of Windows is a core memory for me www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My essay for NYRB maps out how iran got to this point. “But January’s protests werenot just the prelude to a geopolitical contest. They offer a window intothe fortunes of Iran’s citizens, the changing structure of its state, & the trajectory of the regime the US now seeks to obliterate.”

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

I traveled home to Minnesota to report on the rolling fallout of Operation Metro Surge. Both the occupation and neighborhood responses was breathtaking in scale. History in the making. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... Thanks to the @economichardship.bsky.social for support

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...

new interview ! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I had the great honor of writing the introduction to the @enchantedlion.bsky.social edition of Gianni Rodari's Adventures of Cipollino, translated by Antony Shugaar. This expands on that introduction! Huge thanks to Max Nelson for letting me dig into kids' books, produce, and the joy of the absurd.

"A new life cycle amid the ecological breakdown.” Two years of work. Biologists, fishermen, anthropologists, translators, journalists to reconstruct the massive social and environmental changes a salmon lived in her journey across the Americas, from Oregon to Paraná. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

"through the signs I saw the roads to Haifa, to Jaffa, to Jerusalem." Doha Kahlout, translated by Yasmine Seale for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

In Dunya Mikhail's work, the mythic, the journalistic, and the poetic meet; war transforms into a Type A character, and Enheduana talks with Siri in a dream. My latest in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

There was a moment in 2018 when the whole country was aghast at the specter of families separated under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy. Now, as we count down the days until Trump takes office again, they remain vulnerable. I reported on how &why for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Wrote for the NYRB about how the election reveals deep conflicts over the word "democracy" and how organizing toward a 2028 general strike and running a true candidate of the people in the Dem primary is essential for real democratic renewal (my vote is Shawn Fain). www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

I wrote on trans scapegoating: TL/DR: "Harris lost on the economy, not on pronouns. These Democrats are doing what they’ve long accused the Republicans of doing—turning on a vulnerable group to avoid confronting deeper problems in the country and in their own party." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...