A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

London friends! I am reading for the Soho Literary Reading Series at the Big Penny Social on July 11. Get tickets for Geoff Dyer and other great writers and stay for the 600-people party. dice.fm/event/mxeqnr...

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

One thing that I will say of my upbringing is that supporting the most vulnerable in our societies is non-negotiable. As far as I am concerned, if you say you have faith but reject this basic premise you, to quote James Baldwin, "are not a believer, and I don't care what church you go to"

Bleakly poetic finale for one of Europe’s big green industrial hopes: there’s now a homepage auctioning off the entire Northvolt factory in Sweden - complete sell-off, right down to the parking signs and bike racks. nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1...

My 2023 Atavist story, The Romance Scammer on my Sofa, was translated into Portuguese by the fabulous Brazilian magazine Piaui Magazine. piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...

We have been warned for years about AI becoming all-powerful and destroying the human race but of course the real danger is that these systems enable a lazy and reckless ruling class to offload decision-making and avoid accountability

Let's do this with the Brits living in Spain just por las risas. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza "The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity." www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." www.ft.com/content/5d06...

Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? By @adrianhorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

El mejor novelista en español de siempre. elpais.com/cultura/2025...

My new fav website: wtfhappenedin1971.com

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

This is high art

Fantastic piece by Sarah Churchwell. "The Great Gatsby is not simply a story of defeat. It is an elegy for a dream that continues to struggle on, undespairingly, even when it has already been lost." www.ft.com/content/dd6f...

I guess I can call myself a writer now? The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social

It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.

You start with one word. You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less. Then the real work of shaping begins. It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it. Madness.

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

if you need it:

Je suis Khalil www.ft.com/content/bcd3...

Waiting for someone to float Madagascar as an option just to complete the irony

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

If Europe wants something it likes to call a “rules-based order”, it will have to make it for itself www.ft.com/content/4d59...

This bullshit cost Bellingcat tens of thousands of pounds, which we're unable to recover, so if you'd like to support Bellingcat, you can find details here: www.bellingcat.com/donate/

Hace algo más de cinco años entrevisté a Alexander Dugin. Escuchando lo que dice uno entiende mejor la bazofia intelectual que defienden J.D. Vance y compañía. www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/europa...

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

Far-right AfD wins more than 1/3 of Germans who identify as workers.

Blimey. Asked about Trump, Merz says he’s in close contact with European leaders about becoming “independent” from US (and confesses “I never thought I’d say that on TV show”). Casts doubt on value of NATO summit in June. This from a die-hard Atlanticist. Things are moving fast.

A very insightful take on the copy-and-paste geopolitics of today by @javierblas.bsky.social. President Trump’s fixation on extracting elements from the war-torn nation is an illusion. There are no rare minerals in Ukraine worth $500 billion. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

One by one, Trump is implementing every step of Project 2025—dismantling checks and balances, purging disloyal federal employees, removing dissenting judges, and ignoring court rulings. How is this any different from an authoritarian power grab? www.ft.com/content/9d09...

No more debate about fascism.

About once every half-million years, Earth's magnetic poles switch. After day 1 of #MSC2025, I can't think of a better metaphor for the European politics of the transatlantic alliance: everything is reversing.

This move fast and break things is already backfiring. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"La generación que sostuvo el orden de la posguerra ha desaparecido. Era gente que se sentía íntimamente ligada a Europa, pero esa generación está desapareciendo y Europa ya no es una prioridad". www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-0...

Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name.

Quote of the day: “The road to the authoritarian state is lined with people who advise you not to exaggerate”

The EU should move fast and 1) Establish a Rearmament Bank www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... 2. Double EU Budget with a joint borrowing scheme. www.politico.eu/article/spai...