This is a really urgent, wrenching read by Clay Dalton, a physician-writer for @newyorker.com, looking at the short and long-term after-effects of starvation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In his column this week, Jay Kang asks: "how do you build a community when nobody can hold any vision, or even interpretation, of what happened in common?" www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump insiders say, "he is the commander-in-chief." From next week's @newyorker.com issue, @andykroll.bsky.social goes deep on Russell Vought. (In partnership with our friends @propublica.org.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Stirring, thoughtful essay by Mohammed Mhawish. "Our pain is romanticized, and our survival treated as the whole story—when it is only the beginning." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...

In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Eric Lach is out with a deep, illuminating Profile of Zohran Mamdani. “Ready or Not.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Truly horrifying, stunning story by Jennifer Gonnerman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My favorite line in Amanda Petrusich's review of "The Life of the Showgirl" is her strategically placed interjection of "O.K.!" (After describing some of the cringey double entendres in Wood...) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Jay Kang is back in the columnizing seat and makes the case for free speech absolutism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Sally Yates, the former acting general, is joining our Justice on Trial panel @newyorkerfest! Yates, of course, refused to defend Trump’s Muslim ban and was fired. She’ll be in conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen, Ruth Marcus, and Amy Davidson Sorkin. I’ll be your moderator. festival.newyorker.com

At this precarious moment in American politics, some evangelical Christians see themselves as God’s soldiers, combatants in the culture wars. Others are advocating for a gentler approach, @michaelluo.bsky.social writes.

I reflected on what it means that Jesus was “full of grace and truth,” Dallas Willard’s “allure of gentleness” in the Christian apologetic, and whether it stands a chance in an attention economy that rewards outrage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Remnick: Grace is not weakness but resolve, the Charleston families believed, and politics, too, depends on a willingness to coax one another toward better ground. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

The book tour continues! I'll be at the China Institute in America next week, talking about "Strangers in the Land." Wine and light refreshments will be served! Join us. chinainstitute.org/event/strang...

I had to pick my jaw off the floor after reading this lede in @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on self-defense insurance. Like out of an Elmore Leonard novel. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

“There’s little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage—especially when the poor guy isn’t just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared for the role that he’s playing,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Scoop from @benrothenberg.bsky.social www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

David Remnick chats with Anna Wintour. This week’s @newyorker.com interview. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

A comrade from South Africa shared this story with me some weeks back, and yesterday was the 140 year memorial of this massacre. A longer write up of this historical moment was written by @michaelluo.bsky.social of the New Yorker in March. cw: racial violence web.archive.org/web/20250324...

Thank you for reading!

Gauff v. Osaka. Here we go.

“So, what’s your take?” Andrew Marantz interviews Kareem Rahma, the creator of the viral social-media talk show “Subway Takes.”

A Tale of Two Jurists in the Trump Era, my latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This is fun by Paige Williams. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Love this exploration of Sincaraz by Hua Hsu. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

In which @chaykak.bsky.social explains my kids' tastes (and that of the rest of Gen Z) to me. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

A new book event on September 24th with China Institute! I’ll be in conversation with Susan Yuqing Feng, the institute’s director of programs. Wine and light refreshments will be served. The event will also be on the institute’s YouTube channel. Tickets here! chinainstitute.org/event/strang...

Careful, thoughtful @epress.bsky.social on vs “new antisemitism” and the politics of a definition. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In the U.S. Open, mixed doubles are being redesigned as a popularity contest engineered to generate buzz. The new format may be good for business. But what is it?

“How much money does it all amount to? What’s the number?” David Kirkpatrick tallies it up. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Incredibly moving, visually stunning piece. www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...

This piece by @michaelschulman.bsky.social on Wesley LePatner, whose life and his ran on parallel tracks, is shattering and stirring. Please read. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...

Ruth Margalit observes from Israel: "In July, mainstream journalists and politicians abruptly abandoned that official narrative." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

After reading Burk Bilger's feature on Molar City in Mexico, I went and flossed my teeth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Despite its populist trappings, Trump’s proposal to end taxes on tips won’t help the lowest-paid tipped workers. In this week’s @newyorker.com, I report on the industry lobby that has prevented a policy that could help them — raising wages — from gaining traction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This piece I wrote in 2018 remains true, though the spread of red flag laws, including in Nevada, are a positive development. But they're often under-utilized. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

From Remnick's latest Letter from Israel: "...in Israel there is no geographic remove. To look away is an act of both will and denialism, a form of self-preservation." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is today at 2 pm! A virtual event with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Register here! marketing.gilderlehrman.org/l/941553/202...

I love this. Truly. Honor him by reading “a real page-turner.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Just a lovely, harrowing read by Anna Russell. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... Notes on Bed Rest | The New Yorker

"There’s a legal strategy known as the small-penis rule, wherein an author who writes a character based on a real person can potentially evade a libel suit by giving said character a small penis..." Tyler Foggatt on South Park and Trump. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The best observer and writer on sexuality today is @embits.bsky.social. Quite a read. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

On Sunday at 2 pm, I’m doing a virtual event for “Strangers in the Land” with the Gilda Lehrman Institute of American History. Join us! Registration link here: marketing.gilderlehrman.org/l/941553/202...

Dear Jeff Bezos …

Lutnick is in many ways the most Trumpian member of Trump’s Cabinet—a raw, unbridled expression of the President’s mercantilist instincts and branding acumen, of government as dealmaking in gold-plated rooms. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I enjoyed this conversation with Ken Fong for his podcast, Asian America. We talked, in particular, about storytelling and what it means that “Strangers in the Land” is a narrative history and how I tried to build the book around memorable characters. asianamericapodcast.com/2025/07/ep-5...

“Consider the Big Dumper,” @louisathomas.bsky.social writes. “Scruffy, ruddy, built like a truck. Large mitts for hands, and a legendary derrière—a seat that assists in hours of squatting, a professional occupation, and in hitting bodacious home runs.” www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...