As I’ve reported on housing keeping families apart in Georgia with ProPublica, I was shocked to hear K.’s story. It took her a few months to get clean for her kids. But they still spent six years in foster care - because of her housing. propublica.org/article/in-geo…

Chicago teachers are demanding housing for 15K homeless students in their next union contract. Following the loss of Bring Chicago Home, Chicago Teachers Union says its housing proposals—aimed at eliminating student homelessness—are more important than ever. My latest thenation.com/article/activi…

I don't know what to do with myself after reading this paragraph.

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Very excited to have this Picador USA edition out in the world today!

She's here, y'all. And she's beautiful 💛

I wrote about three friends who grew up in Ramallah, and a shooting in Vermont. For NYT Magazine

nytimes.com/2024/02/28/mag…

very excited to dive into Hamilton Nolan's new book

Some news! Getting back in the saddle with a regular column I'm writing for Literary Hub called 'Journalism as a Front of War.' Will be writing essays 2x a month on the craft & ideology of journalism—& how we might dream of better possibilities for the form lithub.com/journalism-as-…

What’s left to say anymore?

After many years of work, I couldn't be prouder to announce that the day is finally here. My book, EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE, is out today from penguinpress.

After meeting Tina, Aliyya Swaby and I filed open records requests, traveled across Georgia, and interviewed people like her who had their power cut off for nonpayment, even though they needed power keep their medical devices working.

Check out this 🧵 for more on what we found.

Homelessness is directly tied to housing affordability, and one of the unhoused people living in an RV in my newly unaffordable town recently froze to death.

A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS: ON BORDERS AND BELONGING is out February 13th from Riverhead Books .

It's part reportage, part memoir, and part theoretical inquiry into myth, migration, memory and storytelling in a heavily bordered world. Will you preorder it?

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