The New York Times piece cited here is a great example of why more and more people are turning to independent journalism, and why I'm ramping up my Substack. seriousmoonlightxyz.substack.com/p/a-bad-nyt-...

The latest for Writers Talking #Writers at @publisherswkly.bsky.social! Ada Limón on Emily Dickinson Rickey Laurentiis on Wallace Stevens www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I’m very happy to publish for the first time with @aljazeera.com on such an important story: @aiww.bsky.social and the lost backpack — a tale of exile, memory, and bureaucracy. Introduction by @nickhilden.bsky.social Read more ⬇️

Paperwork is serious when you're living in exile. New in @aljazeera.com - Ai Weiwei tells a story highlighting the importance of documentation for refugees, @channeldraw.bsky.social illustrates, and I provide the intro. www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025...

In my latest for @nautil.us I discuss Plato and tyranny with classicist James Romm. nautil.us/the-philosop...

The latest in my Writers Talking Writers series at @publisherswkly.bsky.social! Jess Walter on Charles Portis Jonathan Lethem on James Salter www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

New in my Writers Talking Writers series at @publisherswkly.bsky.social Madeleine Thien discusses the "stone on stone" writing of her friend Y-Dang Troeung and the act of writing as an "afterlife." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War I spoke with some of those impacted by Operation Babylift for @aljazeera.com. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

My latest Writers Talking Writers installment at @publisherswkly.bsky.social is a special edition for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Thích Nhất Hạnh Karl Marlantes on Leo Tolstoy www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A Friday treat: eavesdrop on Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar's Bay Area roadtrip courtesy of @nickhilden.bsky.social. “Kaveh is team poetry and I’m team novel, and we were both trying to recruit each other for each other’s teams, then realized we could play for both.” www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

New for @vanityfair.com - On the road with Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

New for Writers Talking Writers @publisherswkly.bsky.social Colum McCann on John Berger Torrey Peters (@torreypeters.bsky.social) on Halldor Laxness www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

New for @nautil.us - a chat with Michael Joseph Gross about his fascinating new book Stronger, about our changing understanding of muscle and strength. nautil.us/the-importan...

My latest for @aljazeera.com explores California's legacy of conflict over war. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

New for my Writers Talking Writers series at @publisherswkly.bsky.social Charlotte Wood (@charlottewood.bsky.social) on William Maxwell Laila Lalami on Franz Kafka www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

New for @aljazeera.com “I hope that people maybe just aren’t aware of how poorly paid and poorly treated their federal firefighters are." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

My latest for @nautil.us: Journalist Carl Zimmer on the earliest studies of the aerobiome, historical approaches to pandemic readiness, and how learning about the creatures who live in the air around us has changed the way he moves through the world. nautil.us/life-in-an-a...

One of the biggest problems of our day is chronic lack of foresight. OK, you fire hundreds of thousands of people and superheat the job market: what is the logical outcome of that?

FACT CHECK: JD Vance tweeted “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” False: judges interpret what is or is not a legitimate use of power - a key aspect of the US system of checks and balances. By @channeldraw.bsky.social and @nickhilden.bsky.social

FACT CHECK is my new collaboration with @channeldraw.bsky.social - an attempt to introduce a dose of reality amidst the misinformation

A few photos that go along with my new piece on Bowie's time in Berlin

My latest for @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social "Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story of Bowie and the Berlin Wall suggests important lessons..." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

“The reader is someone I don’t want to cheat.” —Hernan Diaz, interviewed by @nickhilden.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

The outpouring of love for David Lynch should remind that you don't have to compromise your weirdness to be appreciated.

I am a space nerd and my latest for @ajenglish.bsky.social speaks to that: Sanctuary on the Moon is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

New in my Writers Talking Writers series at Publishers Weekly... Ben Okri on Christopher Okigbo Katie Kitamura on Natalia Ginzburg www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

My latest for @aljazeera.com - "I have not only the right but the duty to carry a gun and to protect my person against any attack that might deprive my family of support,” he wrote to Ginsberg in January 1951, 10 months before shooting his wife. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

My latest for @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

My latest for @nautil.us nautil.us/breaking-a-c...

Working on a piece on the murder of Joan Vollmer by William Burroughs and its impact on his legacy. He went on to become a renowned writer, and her remains are forgotten in a pauper’s grave at the edge of Mexico City. The shooting happened in the apartment above the Bounty Bar, now Krika's.

Just another day at the cdmx Trotsky house

The latest in my Writers Talking #Writers series at Publishers Weekly: "It feels very grown up to acknowledge that like that: people aren't amazing." "You know, life—when it’s not a tragedy—is definitely a dark comedy." #writer #art #books #literature www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

My recent @washingtonpost.com interview w/ Russian #poet in exile Maria Stepanova: "It is getting worse rapidly. People are being jailed. People are getting detained. People are forced to flee the country." #writer #art #fascism #politics #russia www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

I spoke with the great Karl Ove Knausgaard about his recent conversion to #science: "...scientists were actually out there and digging, or out there in the sea, or out there in the world. And we in the arts were looking at signs and abstractions." #writer #books nautil.us/dont-we-belo...

My latest for the Observer - The Offbeat Art of Berlin 35 Years After the Fall of the Wall observer.com/2024/11/art-...

Welcome to not-Twitter! Sharing my piece for Index on Censorship about fascism and political repression in Egypt just because... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Exodusing from Twitter and sharing my interview with Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko on the rise of fascism for no reason really... www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...

My latest for @aljazeera.com - mushroom structures grown on the moon! www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Does anybody use this yet? Because that other place is a nightmare

For my latest @washingtonpost.com I spoke with journalists Elena Kostyuchenko about her new book and the rise of fascism.

Joining a new social media app has a similar vibe to begrudgingly reentering the dating scene.

Here we are, starting all over again.