Another sad loss today: the longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer. Here's his marvelous profile of Ricky Jay, from 1993. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

“In the work of [Mathias Énard], one comes to expect certain things: historical details, geopolitical thinking, elevated, sometimes baroque prose, intoxicants, violence, voluptuous solitude, troubled personal affairs, and a manifold sensuality.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Desperate Times Call for Antediluvian Measures www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

What would you like the headline of your obituary to be? 'Publisher of the Dead Joins Them.' —Edwin Frank, NYRB editor, answers a few questions for Cultured magazine.

including Master & Commander in the Pynchonesque BAM series because of a brief shoutout in Mason & Dixon... that's how you know a real head is curating www.bam.org/film/2026/py...

What a breath of fresh air. www.eurogamer.net/gta-6-couldn...

One of the year’s best games: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/a...

A Group of Socialists Created a Hit Game That Tore Them Apart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

so it's been like this for a while I see

“There’s a special pleasure for critics in hearing from readers who are unsure whether to take a particular review as positive or negative.)” Truth. In Defense of the Traditional Review www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Big thanks to @christopherbyrd.bsky.social at The New York Times for their coverage of Eriksholm 👇https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/eriksholm-stolen-dream-review.html

We gave this a NYT Critic’s Pick: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/a...

"This book contains nothing gratuitous, nothing self-serving, no special pleading, no striving to persuade or please. It offers no false consolation – not in sentiment, nor tone or structure." --Charlotte Wood

The best single-player game I’ve reviewed so far this year: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/a...

I like how our monthly indie games roundup at The New York Times is shaping up. I’m super curious about the games that Harold Goldberg and Yussef Cole picked. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/a...

2025 deserves a new Pynchon book. It’s only fair.

Glory to God. 🙏🏽 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

“It took a while for me to think that writing about my experience was a possibility.” —@suzannescanlon.bsky.social, interviewed by Anne K. Yoder www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

RIP Wilson Center. Musk staffers visited the center, and shortly after, its leadership staff and senior government employees were ousted. Dozens of federal employees, about a third of the center’s workforce, were also slated for administrative leave.

I’m happy to see this @likaluca.bsky.social interview in @thebeliever.net www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

I profiled the visionary game designer Davey Wreden for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...