we should be spinning around drunk like Rumi

This is amazing. Theodora Bosanquet's essay on how Henry James worked. She was his last and best amanuensis. loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Bos…

Mr Market Puts on a Record thank you SUBTR°PICS

Hi everyone. Reactivating twitter to share this I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA at the end of last week because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne on Sat 6am and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

In my dream last night I came across a writer I had never heard of and today that happened, ordered one of their books, the endlessness of literature, the most incredible thing

woooo-eeeee it really is all about the next poem, the unwritten one hovering some distance away from you in a state of wobble and yaw

all writing should take the form of the list. just endless lists, one after another.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb. - Melville to Hawthorne, after finishing Moby Dick 🫶

finally a mayor with a demure four in hand tie knot

Cuomo lost because he didn't pivot to the center, was too extreme, and embraced policy positions that weren't popular. Have I got that right?

Would be really thrilling if Jews would stop using “antisemitism” as a catch all for views they disagree with — the word means something

my wife just told me I have a Zohran smile so I must now change my profile pic to one that backs this indisputable fact

Really excited to be included in the latest issue of Funicular Magazine funicularmagazine.com/shop/funicular…

Zionists must reconcile themselves with the fact that the establishment of Israel was a catastrophe for Palestinians if we are ever to build a Jewish state that is moral and sustainable.

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion

This is getting close to the logic of holocaust deniers who often point to the existence of survivors, escapees, the existence of Jewish partisans, the sporadic use of Jewish labor, and the fact that not all camps were used for extermination to cast doubt on genocidal intent

the enormity, the hypocrisy, the hellishness, we are consuming live feeds of death and hollowing ourselves out, so-called Progress has no moral center, not now, while Palestinians starve and are shot for their hunger

creation occurs in fits and starts, it isn't a linear, seamless sequence, as AI would have it. It depends on gaps, rests, like music, moments of silence in which nothing can be made

by chance, now and then, the algorithm offers up something beautiful

"Get me Edward Norton."