Sula(1973)

.@jenlouisewilson attends a sex-choreography workshop to learn how to become an intimacy coördinator, one of Hollywood’s newest and most controversial jobs. nyer.cm/JaYulw4

“What would our world look like without ancient Egyptian shipbuilders, Polynesian voyagers, Japanese traders, and Somali merchants? Forget globalization: Would we even have a globe?" Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the wild lives of barges and ships in @booksandthearts thenation.com/article/world/…

The role of the Hollywood intimacy coördinator, once a curio of a career, is on its way to becoming an industry standard. Along the way, it’s also become an object of intense public fascination and borderline-prurient media attention. nyer.cm/mmnc6Tq

My essay about the brilliant, pioneering & shockingly forgotten showrunner-pioneer Gertrude Berg, who invented the family sitcom (pre-Lucy!), then got eaten by the blacklist in the 1950s — a story with disturbing modern parallels newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA for reporting on the Columbia student protests. My story here The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

My long and combative dispatch from the American gulag archipelago, featuring the KKK, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ice Cube, and a very angry newspaper editor, where everyone knew to say nothing. slate.com/business/2025/…

from john lahr’s 2002 profile of mira nair: newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Every once in a while I think about the fact that this was a real press conference: nypost.com/2023/01/17/eri…

You know the situation is dire if the New York Times is using the active voice when describing a murder.

The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

A must-read piece on treating child trauma in Gaza, in The New Yorker

Famine expert Alex de Waal says thousands of Gaza’s starving children can no longer digest food and need hospitalization, so alongside "flooding the zone" with food, “there needs to be a massive emergency infusion of intensive-care capability.”