I have a new essay in the latest issue of @nplusonemag.com about the last Sundance in Park City. In print, online, now unpaywalled www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Now out from behind the paywall: @tavlin.bsky.social’s journey to the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, from our Spring 2026 issue.

oh fuck, new Will Tavlin essay

One of @nplusonemag.com's very best issues ever is almost here, featuring journeys to mountaintops, artificial islands, fish processors, William Gass's interior life, and much more. Subscribe to read it as soon as it's out—20% off w/ discount code EXCURSIONS. www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

n+1 Issue 53: EXCURSIONS is almost here! Featuring Will Tavlin at Sundance, Mina Tavakoli at sea, Grace Glass in Alaska, Morley Musick in ICE-raided Chicago, Nicholas Dames on William Gass, Dennis M. Hogan on Greg Grandin—and much more. Subscribe by May 4 to read it in print.

I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...

I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...

German translation of "casual viewing" out now from @woz.ch www.woz.ch/wobei/26-1/n...

Reminder that Penske Media employees are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. You’re not.

Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.

"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart." www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

I have a new piece in the latest @nymag.com about the crisis at Mubi www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit? www.cjr.org/feature/reci...

a good, smart piece on Netflix www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”

For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

“'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This is the most entertaining thing I’ve read in some time, and extremely insightful about the coroprate bland-ification of American life.

Lisa Borst and I spoke to @hamrahrama.bsky.social about the new Cracker Barrel logo www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

As long as we’re on the subject of Netflix and movies (however reluctantly!) I recommend this piece by @tavlin.bsku.social about why so many Netflix movies suck: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Fascinating and depressing article on why almost everything on Netflix is shit

I went to Il Cinema Ritrovato for @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2025-...

a political consultancy that does what now?

If you're near a landlord, go put your hand in his pocket for no reason

He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

n+1’s 50th issue is out today! Feat. @hzeavin.bsky.social, Andrew Liu, @hamrahrama.bsky.social, @richardbeck.bsky.social, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Gemma Sack, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane. www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’

I’ll be speaking about Netflix and Casual Viewing at Stanford shortly. Zoom link here: events.stanford.edu/event/four-l...

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

The thing about "it's so important to read people who interview people who work at these companies" is the giveaway. The idea that only people who work inside a company can understand it is how journalists become stenographers

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

NEW—DHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas." Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.

my god

What's up with Variety doing Wikipedia hagiography for Netflix lately? This reads like an excerpt for a nonexistent boosterish Netflix memoir, several of which already exist variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Generally not a great sign when Dan McCrum starts looking at a small discrepancy in your company's balance sheet www.ft.com/content/62df...

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

Tapping the sign

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Steve Bannon: "The people of Israel got to understand something. The number one enemy to the people in Israel are American Jews that do not support Israel and do not support MAGA. Okay, MAGA and the evangelical Christians and the traditional Catholics in this country have Israel's back..."

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.