Seattle planned for months to make today's World Cup game its Pride Match, Then it Drew Egypt and Iran. . www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

This is genuinely evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Okay so I have to post about this because I have been thinking about it all week. Last week thanks to subway malfunctions (whatever, it’s fine) I had to walk about a mile home and decided to go to a relatively new wine/pizza bar in my neighborhood that I haven’t been to bc I am a regular at another

This is tomorrow! Come through!!

Oy. Full list: www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/...

I wrote my Documentary Lens column on perhaps the most successful documentary series of all time www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/m...

Grateful that we have critics who understand nonfiction filmmaking and the history of documentary and can write about it in smart ways. (Even when the movie is “dumb”)

I wrote my Documentary Lens column on perhaps the most successful documentary series of all time www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/m...

This Saturday I will sit down with @isaacbutler.bsky.social and talk about Scorsese's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, which kicked up a major maelstrom, and Isaac's book THE PERFECT MOMENT. Come to Astoria, 12:30p at the Museum of the Moving Image. movingimage.org/event/the-la...

A first for me: as I get off the train near work, Curtis Sliwa walks past me and boards

Yeah, the WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES paperback came out yesterday, but this week is also the 4th anniversary of my book SALTY. I think its theme has only sharpened: that gathering at a table, paying attention to the people across from you, is a small, stubborn act of resistance. tinyurl.com/ya8yukda

Of interest: Merve Emre talking to Jon Fosse and Marilynne Robinson about God, art and politics: granta.com/the-god-dime...

Today the paperback of “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine” is out in the world! You can get/order it anywhere. If you’re in NYC, there are signed copies on the floor at Books are Magic (both locations) and The Strand. www.alissawilkinson.com/didion-we-te...

Lots of stuff in this important @nybooks.com article about the Greens of Hobby Lobby and papyrus fragment purchases (for the Museum of the Bible) that honestly, I have always kind of wondered about. Register to read the whole article: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I’ve been posting incessantly in support of the paperback launch today and it’s been intriguing to see which posts do well on which platforms. Substack (Notes) has loved the ones about how everyone misses stuff about Didion …

I do have a theory about this which is that so many public scandals/screwups are either slightly complicated or lend themselves to claims that they’ve been manipulated by “the media” or “taken out of context.” But hard to deny the algae. And a lot of people have a pool they manage to keep clean.

Today the paperback of “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine” is out in the world! You can get/order it anywhere. If you’re in NYC, there are signed copies on the floor at Books are Magic (both locations) and The Strand. www.alissawilkinson.com/didion-we-te...

My office doubles as the Room Where Most of the Party Happens when we have a party, which means my desk gets mostly cleared off, and somehow in the confusion of the last party I seem to have ... misplaced my mouse? Which is very different from having a rogue mouse in the house, but still annoying

Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur is possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

The bartender at my fav spot in NYC told me once that they were the third biggest Guinness account in America behind the Dead Rabbit and one other place, and when I asked where the other place was he said “oh, Boston” like that should have been obvious (it should have). This is a science experiment

Right now in only the borough of Manhattan you could see the Raphael show at the Met, Duchamp at the MoMA, Carol Bove at the Guggenheim, the Whitney Biennial, and an actual banger of a show about “being human” at the newly reopened New Museum and that’s just at major art museums south of Harlem

The Raphael show is as good as everyone says but some of the stuff by various contemporaries and collaborators is legit bananas

At the Met’s blockbuster Raphael show, where a toddler is being pushed in a stroller through the jammed Madonna and Child gallery excitedly hollering BABY! BABY!!

This sort of makes his turn in the just-aired season 3 of THE COMEBACK even more poignant. RIP to one of the best to ever do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/a...

I have been posting on all of my other platforms relentlessly because my paperback (!!) is out on Tuesday and you gotta do what you gotta do, but since Bluesky is where I hang out as me I haven’t been inundating you folks with my posts. That said, I did think today’s was rather good …

gonna go back and sit in a corner with my copy of the broom of the system for a while

back in the news, but bigger now

Hello, gorgeous

The Times cafeteria staff have been picking one World Cup game a day for the food theme and today, thank God, they picked the Ghana v Panama game, and they sort of outdid themselves

Some day there will be a Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything musical and I will think back to this

This is impressive tbh

Didion on grammar: "To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed." Even when she's talking about sentences, she's thinking in cinema. tinyurl.com/y5jesahv

Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 16) is the last day to pre-order a signed paperback of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: JOAN DIDION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE, which comes out on June 23. Isn't she lovely? Links to the two preorder options over here: www.alissawilkinson.com/didion-we-te...

If you want a sense of the immensity of the street closures around the White House right now, I was staying in a hotel 0.4 miles away and walked down and around and back to the hotel today and this is my step count, having spent almost the entirety of the rest of the day on trains

I walked all the way around the White House today attempting to see it — like, see the White House — and this is about all I saw other than the dismal and very distant view you can now get from the north side since Lafayette Square is blocked to the public now too

This is just some good writing man www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/n...

Who has eyes on the mayor. Where’s Zohran rn

Why am I in the District of Columbia right now

Watching sports with a ton of nonfiction filmmakers is a uniquely weird experience

ONE IN FORTY BABY

I hate high scoring sports

In a DC bar watching the Knicks, an experience of slight but not total disjunct

so small he only need 1 popcorn

when the review has a plot twist

The beauty of this incredibly innocuous post is that every variety of Reply Guy showed up under it. I’d kind of forgotten this could happen

Oh it’s actually starting. In those little jackets it kinda looks like the Minions are doing it

Actually kind of wild how many references to David Hockney’s work casually crop up across screen-based pop culture, which of course he re-absorbed. Hard to deny there’s a little of him in The Christophers. Luca Guadagnino’s remake of La Piscine. Bojack Horseman …

❤️ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...