'What is a witch? ...Isn't the ability to communicate with the invisible world, to keep constant links with the dead, to care for others and heal, a superior gift of nature that inspires respect, admiration, and gratitude?'

~ Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Wrote about Lorca's time in New York

The London Review of Books asked me to read Les Rougon-Macquart. I agreed, thinking it would be a nice little project, brief.

Two years later, I tell you all about it.

Zola is now my father.

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People say goodbye to Navalny. We will never forget.

A24’s PROBLEMISTA OPEN TODAY NYC & LA •
EVERYWHERE MARCH 22 • WRITTEN, STARRING, DIRECTED BY JULIO TORRES

I play Craigslist. Yes, that one. Watch to find out!

Rebecca Hall and Ollie West to star in a series adaptation of Jordan Tannahill’s ‘THE LISTENERS’ from director Janicza Bravo.

It centres around a popular English teacher, who begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear.

We are very excited for the Janicza Bravo x Jordan Tannahill x Rebecca Hall link up.

Y’all aren’t ready.

Janicza Bravo (Zola) will be directing my adaptation of The Listeners, starring Rebecca Hall, for BBC television. Element Pictures (Poor Things, Normal People) are producing. It has been an extraordinary collaboration, I can’t wait to share it with you all soon

Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s continuing war on Gaza ⤵️

Know their names: aje.io/06omb

Fundraiser for Alice Snaden by Friends of Charles Officer : In Memory of Charles Officer gofund.me/e21a3be5

woke up to an Etel Adnan painting

No one has ever mothered this hard

The Palestinian people are not alone: Jew, Muslim, Christian, Black, Brown, White, Trade Unionists, Parents, Young & Old all with one voice: #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine

Wishing a very happy pub day to Yara by Tamara Faith Berger! 🎉 Berger's writing has received high praise from the likes of Sheila Heti, Roxane Gay and Miranda July, and Jordan Tannahill, so you can't go wrong! 😍 Shop here: chbooks.com/Books/Y/Yara

In Exteriors, Annie Ernaux recounts living in Cergy-Pontoise, a new town in the suburbs of Paris. At exactly the same time, Eric Rohmer was filming L'Ami de Mon Amie in the same town. Remarkable how these two texts speak to one another

I profiled Samuel R. Delany—sci-fi pioneer, gay radical, literary genius—for The New Yorker’s fiction issue newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

This is one of my favorite books ever. Check it out if you haven’t young theatre freaks.

I wrote for The New Yorker about one of my all-time favorites, Magda Szabó
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“It sometimes can be difficult to think that there’s any creativity left, that there’s any more creation in life. But that’s what life is. Without a creative force, there’s nothing to live for.”
- Daniel Brooks

This shout-out in the NY Times from Brandon is really something. I loved his new novel The Late Americans. Read it so we can talk about it.