‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Spot on "The real takeaway from this film, for me, is about who gets to make art, whose voice matters, and what they choose to disregard, in this creative climate. For all its attempts to be shocking, Fennell’s film has stripped away all that is radical about Wuthering Heights." tinyurl.com/2nj9r4ux

For friends in the UK, you can get 25% off my forthcoming book from @haymarketbooks.org Tending to Our Wounds if you pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social by Friday 20th Feb - use code FEB26 when ordering! www.waterstones.com/book/tending...

Inspired by this from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social who's becoming pretty much my go-to political analyst

‘Last August, Cooper said that “there may be people who are objecting to proscription who don’t know the full nature of this organisation.” The High Court judges however said that “the closed material does not affect our conclusion.”’ @daniellalock.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

@hahauenstein.bsky.social on the Berlinale "The claim that art is the “opposite” of politics rests on fiction. Art has always shaped political realities. To many international observers, the jury’s posture reads less like neutrality than quiet endorsement of a status quo." tinyurl.com/ehshe5n5

Wow variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Maris Kreizman writes, "The fact that the latest drop of the Epstein files reveals that men in media who were accused of sexual misconduct turned around and enlisted the help of Epstein to fight back has me thinking twice about what “MeToo has gone too far” really means." lithub.com/finding-the-...

A thoughtful reflection by Becca Rothfeld about the closure of the Washington Post's closure of the book division and the state of book coverage today www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

‘Already the performance read like a one-off musical edition of the labour docuseries How It’s Made, but featuring sugar and song, two popular and politicised products of the Caribbean.’ Niela Orr on the Superbowl half-time show, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

"Living in today’s America reminds me of that nursery school. The reigning tyranny; the men who brutalise the innocent – like the boy with the hammer – because they can; the people who, like my mother, say this can’t be true, life can’t be that terrible." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

‘Living in today’s America reminds me of nursery school torment. The reigning tyranny; the men who brutalise the innocent – like the boy with the hammer – because they can; the people who, like my mother, say this can’t be true, life can’t be that terrible.’ Yiyun Li: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Really grateful to @harrissolomon.bsky.social for interviewing me for @publicbooks.bsky.social

Read my interview in @publicbooks.bsky.social

Let's not forget about the ongoing tragedy in Sudan.

Please support @thenation.com. Today, the magazine is suspending the publication of any writing that is not about Gaza, and there will be no pieces published that are not written by people who are in or from Gaza. In "A Day for Gaza," Mohammed R. Mhawish exposes the hollowness of the ceasefire.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis. n.pr/4qCwxfH

Long before ICE was terrorizing immigrants & murdering people, INS was sending Haitians to Guantanamo Bay. Enraged by these deportations, my family and me protested outside the the INS building in Miami when I was a child demanding justice for immigrants. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Give @sarahljaffe.bsky.social latest article in The New Republic @newrepublic.com about the general strike in Minnesota. Some insight about how labor is challenging ICE raids newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Grateful to be a finalist for the Nona Balakian Award for @bookcritics.bsky.social. This would not be possible without the commissions from my editors at @thenation.com @davidmarcus.bsky.social & @newrepublic.com. Congrats to Rhoda Feng (the winner) & the other finalists. www.bookcritics.org/awards/

My stash of books from the @historians.org AHA conference. @iupress.bsky.social & @hackettpub.bsky.social saved the day for Africa representation. Top 3 books on my reading list:Gospel of Family Planning, @jacobinoire.bsky.social His.World in Six Plagues, @maryfissell.bsky.social Pushback #aha2026

@robrubsam.bsky.social makes the case for reading a difficult book in @theatlantic.com. I love this challenge and might replace some of my murder mysteries with some philosophical classics.

In my latest essay for Frieze Magazine, I discussed Widline Cadet's photograph, Manyen Distans, which evokes Haitian folklore of lougarou. It's a short reflection on the stories we are told and how they shape our aesthetics. www.frieze.com/article/widl...

RIP Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist who managed to write about anthropogenic impacts on the climate while also remaining hopeful about our capacity to prevent further damage on this planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

It's absolutely appalling to ban humanitarian aid organizations such as Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. A cease-fire that denies the displaced and dispossessed, with basic care, is a slow death sentence. www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g...

Please read my latest article in @thebaffler.com, where I reviewed Ellen Huet's book, Empire of Orgasm. As the title suggests, the text details the sexual rituals of One Taste, an organization that was investigated for its cultish tendencies and abuse allegations. thebaffler.com/latest/diffe...

‘Trump wanted to overthrow Maduro during his first term but complained that the US military prevented him from invading so that he could take Venezuela’s oil. He can now claim “mission accomplished”.’ Forrest Hylton on Trump and Venezuela, new on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

At least 7 explosions heard in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, followed by a low-flying aircraft, say media reports.

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk