“I never want readers to feel like I’m recounting a ‘you had to be there’ moment; instead, I want them to feel like a given dance is playing out anew on the page.” —Erica Getto on dance criticism go.nybooks.com/3UPrD1m

Read Anahid Nersessian on the political alignment of university administration, donors, cops, and white nationalists in last week’s horrific UCLA counterprotests London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

Loved talking to Medaya on the Los Angeles Review of Books radio hour about RIDDLES

Good morning! The Columbia boycott organizing group has set a deadline for end of day Sunday for signatures, to be delivered to the admin Monday. Keep circulating and signing! We are at 2853 signatures docs.google.com/forms/d/1a1553…

We are LIVE and public with the Columbia/Barnard academic and cultural boycott. As of this moment, we have 521 signatories. Please sign on and share widely. Solidarity! docs.google.com/forms/d/1a1553…

Why would a 1924 review of the first crossword book end with the line 'Buy the book and beat your wife'? allegraۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗ investigates for Crossword Craze. crosswordcraze.today/april-19-1924-…

Academics, please consider signing this -- it's strictly about academic freedom and freedom of speech, so it affects us all.

Revoke Professor Jodi Dean's suspension from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Sign the Petition!

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i’m so moved by the authors who have withdrawn their works from PEN consideration. it’s courageous to reject the opportunity to be considered for $75,000, life changing money for most writers! happy to support Maya Binyam Eugenia Leigh Ordinary Notes Ghassan Zeineddine

I first learned about Iman Mersal's gorgeous book 'Traces of Enayat' from this excellent interview she did with Maru Pabón last year: bidoun.org/articles/a-pri…

Read the interview, then read this excerpt of Traces in the new issue of n+1: nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essay…

A real “read-to-the-end” review. That last line!

Casual 1000 people solving my crossword #acpt

What’s better than Tobi Haslett on Wayne Koestenbaum: “What does a love of vivid surfaces amount to amid the merciless, ubiquitous solicitations of the touch screen?” 4columns.org/haslett-tobi/s…

Today at 10am PT!

Loved talking to Hannah Zeavin last night in person and last week on Zoom. Transcript of the conversation — about psychoanalysis and anorexia, big appetites and small containers—is now up on Literary Hub! lithub.com/unsolvable-puz…

I had the supreme pleasure to talk with Anna Shechtman last night in person, but I also interviewed her for Literary Hub last week. We talked about feminism, the book market, psychoanalysis, word games, and, of course, her new book, RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX : lithub.com/unsolvable-puz…

Stanford! I’m thrilled to be in conversation with the brilliant and funny Anna Shechtman about her new book, The Riddles of the Sphinx, today at 2:30. Come by, it’s going to be wonderful. shc.stanford.edu/stanford-human…

THURS at 10AM w/Mina Kim 김미나:

We're speaking with Anna Shechtman about the art, politics and history of crossword making

❓ What do you love about crosswords?
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SF/Berkeley friends—come hang out tonight! Hannah Zeavin is a dream interlocutor for this book about women’s diverse, if not always diverting, relationship to symbolic law