My latest piece in @lrb.co.uk discusses the scarlet fever outbreak and the ways that measles and meningitis recently struck the UK and the US www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

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New Labour: New Life For Britain

It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

My latest piece in @aljazeera.com discusses how wealthy mobile tourists contribute to the spread of modern outbreaks. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

#journorequest anybody here know anyone who was on the MV Hondius, which has been the center of the hantavirus outbreak, or anyone who is living in the Canary Islands? I would love to hear from them for a story for Al Jazeera! Thanks so much!

Two weeks ago, I wrote about what it means to be a working mom, writer, and why it's okay to lean into some stereotypes in my Substack, Mobile Fragments. Also, you should check out Jamilah Lemieux's latest book, Black.Single.Mother. bonhomme.substack.com/p/working-mom

My latest review is published in @thenation.com is a cheeky take on the legacy of the British empire. I also discuss Jamaica Kincaid's book Putting Myself Together. I would love to hear what you think. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

In Iran, families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations during the war. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

If someone knows a person who was infected with and severely ill from measles or meningitis during the UK outbreaks and would be willing to be quoted for an article, please send me a DM or email me at [email protected]

Amelia Hogan discusses Jurgen Habermas' legacy and Germany's military ties to war & genocide: "The world has been changed by the genocide. Habermas’s statement was a refusal to look at the world for what it was, or was becoming." @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/hab...

An important conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, in which he discusses the sclerotic tendencies of liberalism and why we need to move away from the corporatist and NGO models of medicine towards a framework that provides health sovereignty for Palestinians. proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

Really loved this piece's candid take on class divisions among writers and, more specifically, how they shape one's literary legitimacy. There is the survival work of the working class, and the inherited capital that finances the lives of the upper class. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

This month I feature @harrissolomon.bsky.social, @jacobinoire.bsky.social, @publicbooks.bsky.social, @motherjones.com, @palmblad.bsky.social, @carsoncenter.bsky.social, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sciencepolitics.bsky.social, @aptninvestigates.bsky.social, and more! #envhist

Check out my review of Namwali Serpell's brilliant book, "On Morrison," in @newrepublic.com, which discusses the late Nobel Laureate's perceived difficulty, writing process, and more. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Read my interview with Ligia Lewis, a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer. We discuss beauty, politics, and sarcasm in Germany and beyond thediasporist.de/impolite-bod...

‘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