Also, anyone who doesn't know the difference between rent controlled and rent stabilized has no business running for mayor of New York.

Liz Lopatto nails the problem with the NYT. It's been sucking up to the right for years but it's only getting worse.

i keep thinking about how monumental what we are contending with is, as a project. it’s congress & electoral politics; it’s the judiciary; and it’s what passes for mainstream media outlets at the moment. anyway, this is a good thread about the misguided and reactionary policies of the times 👇🏻

It is a sad day, but the Post's Metro section lasted a lot longer than the NYT's did.

Dear friends, we've launch a change to the way we offer grants to underrepresented writers at @pageonem.bsky.social. I hope you'll read and share with your colleagues and writers. Thanks!

Congratulations @langealexandra.bsky.social !!!

When I inadvertently listened to all six Austen novels on audiobook—all praise to Juliet Stevenson!—I was surprised by how many books *about* Austen I had scattered around the house waiting to be read. www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

It's been a tough few months for the Village Voice since @tromano.bsky.social's book came out, losing Jim Ledbetter, David Schneiderman, Jules Feiffer, and now Karen Durbin.

It's definitely good that the Trump administration is making a list of Jews at Barnard to "protect" them that's sure to end well.

What the absolute fuck. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

Just saw a book description inviting me to "travel back in time to 1997 in this cozy, slow-burn romance." Do you think the writer was thinking that 1997 was just before everything started to go off the rails with Bush v. Gore and Citizens United?

If you hear crickets that’s the antisemitism task force springing into action

Days before masked ICE agents detained Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, Dept determined that the admin had not produced any evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here's a surprise! New Pynchon novel SHADOW TICKET coming 10.7 from Penguin Press. In 1932, a Milwaukee PI is hired to find a missing cheese heiress and finds himself in Hungary with no heiress in sight—but lots of Nazis, Soviet and British spies, and more. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

The police clearly have different friends on social media than I do or they would have known that everyone was going to be there.

Military historian teaching in the Army’s most elite officer training school booted to the curb, along with his entire department; the base which houses it, itself historic, to be shuttered.

"they view"

This is just to say

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

As part of our Best Books of the 21st Century package, we highlighted the impact of a few titles. Here's @michaelschaub.bsky.social on THE CORRECTIONS: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

As someone who is not Jewish watching this destruction carried out by others who are not Jewish, that part looks intentional. Trump, Musk, et al want these acts of vandalism and sabotage to be in the name of the Jews, to appear to be at their behest. They want to shift the blame to them.

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

Here's a fun thing: We at Kirkus have spent the last few months reading and debating the best books of the 21st century (so far!) in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. Here's the list of 100 fiction titles: www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

Wolf Hall as a trilogy is so good that I'm amazed people don't talk about it constantly. I should see posts about it the way I see people post about Moby Dick

Here's a fun thing: We at Kirkus have spent the last few months reading and debating the best books of the 21st century (so far!) in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. Here's the list of 100 fiction titles: www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

How do romance readers actually respond when authors make their politics clear? In this week's REBEL EVER AFTER, @joannashupe.bsky.social told me about the backlash she received when she pointed out the connections between the Gilded Age and today. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5RDn...

Now that I've listened to all the Jane Austen audiobooks, plus A JANE AUSTEN EDUCATION by Bill Deresiewicz, I've been trying to decide whether to go on with secondary sources but I just had a brainstorm: It's Brontë time.

The last few weeks have been full of 5-year anniversaries of so many bad things—last day in the office before lockdown, etc.—but I was reminded today that it's the 4th anniversary of my first Covid vaccine, and what a miracle that was. Too bad it seems to have sent so many people around the bend.

So exciting to hear Maxine Hong Kingston speak at the @bookcritics.bsky.social awards ceremony. WOMAN WARRIOR was one of the first nonfiction winners and she's here to celebrate the group's 50th anniversary.

How the hell does New York get all the worst Dems?

I just finished my accidental re-read of all of Jane Austen and I'm feeling a bit adrift. Let me recommend Juliet Stevenson's audiobooks if you're so inclined.

I did just get through and managed to leave a voicemail at the DC office. Let's keep trying!

Schumer's DC voicemail is off, as is the VM at his NYC office. I usually have luck with Melville but that one didn't work either; nor did Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Peekskill, Syracuse, etc. Here are the numbers if you want to tell him to get a spine: www.schumer.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

In case RFK Jr convinced you that he is not anti-vax, but merely "skeptical" & concerned about vaccine safety...look here NIH is terminating awards to obtain reliable data on vaccine hesitancy & ways to improve uptake. This is an explicitly anti-vax policy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Can someone please make a buddy show with Ted Danson and Harrison Ford?

I like this trend of men wearing sparkly brooches on their lapels.

Hardly the worst thing going on in the world, or even at the New York Times, but this huge typo is right in the middle of the front page. Took me a minute to figure out what "starred in his of '70s and '80s" meant.

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

I was just thinking about Geoff Nicholson the other day, and now comes the sad news of his death. Haven't read him in a long time but I enjoyed his early-mid 90s comic novels. EVERYTHING AND MORE is a satire set in a department store, always a fruitful genre.

"Has to deal": or he could just let it wither. Which one seems more likely, New York Times headline writer?

"Feud"

Here's one small thing to look forward to: An opera of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY coming to the Metropolitan Opera in September. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

Eric Adams has left NYC open to Trump's blackmail. It's up to Kathy Hochul to have the guts to get him out of office. Call her at (518) 474-8390. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/n...

Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.

Why would Hellman's think it was a good idea to set a commercial at Katz's? Eating mayo on one of their sandwiches would be a shanda.

The next four years feel like a technical challenge where the only instructions Paul Hollywood gave us were “survive” and the ingredients are Chuck Schumer.

Great starter packs of independent bookstores.