.Maya Binyam is an inimitable person and an inimitable writer - so proud to be her friend and colleague 🫡😭

“Leonard Stern, the paper’s owner from the 1980s until the early 2000s, told Romano that he heard about [Craigslist] from his son, who used it to hire an au pair. In that moment, he said, he knew the Voice was never going to be profitable again.”

This article by ⁦Rashid Khalidi⁩ is the only thing you need to read about Gaza, Palestine, and Israel. ‘New abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Haven't laughed and felt haunted in equal measure in a while! Amazing moment in Joy Williams's most recent story for The Paris Review

theparisreview.org/fiction/8252/c…

I wrote about life, death, the village voice, and the doldrums of the media biz for The New York Review of Books

nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

'While much has changed in the past six months, the horrors we witness can only be truly comprehended as a cataclysmic new phase in a war that has been going on for several generations.'

Today's The Guardian Long Read by Rashid Khalidi

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

You guys when there’s a new random inane article you get to be mad about

People have been so generous that we're just a few thousand dollars away from being able to get Mohammed R. Mhawish | محمد مهاوش's parents, sister, and in-laws out of Gaza along with him, his wife, and their son. We're so, so close — please chip in if you can chuffed.org/project/108852…

URGENT: We're raising money for Mohammed R. Mhawish | محمد مهاوش, his pregnant wife, their son, his parents, and his sister to flee Gaza.

Mohammed is a brilliant journalist who has written for me at The Nation, and a wonderful person. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/108852…

Brilliant piece by Lucas Iberico Lozada on the Alvaro Enrigue and how much fiction is baked into the story of Mexico's conquest

thenation.com/article/cultur…

I never want to hear another word about Joe Biden as 'designated mourner,' 'America's grief emissary,' 'unmatched as America's grief counselor,' etc. Whatever happened to his family has clearly had no effect on his willingness to obliterate entire family trees.

I wrote about Olga Ravn’s My Work, the discontents of motherhood and the limits of autofiction for thinking about labour
thenation.com/article/cultur…

Great biography and Lindsay Zoladz's essay on nichols among the best on the book

thenation.com/article/cultur…

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An excellent article in The Nation by my colleague Katherine Franke about the perilous state of free expression and academic freedom at Columbia right now. thenation.com/article/societ…

for Intelligencer I wrote about what it's like to search for food in Gaza right now, as prices soar and bombs fall:
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

'Alice would create serene, drifting arrangements that centered her own harp playing against Sanders’s melodic saxophone and McBee’s soothing bass. Here, it seemed, Alice wanted to lull listeners into deeper states of calm.'

thenation.com/article/cultur…

Clay Felker, NY Mag founder: “We as journalists looked too long and too lovingly at the hippies, yuppies, protestors, and rock groups...What is relevant is that you can't get an apartment, that there are new pressures on marriages, and new ways of making money.”

Wow—a very detailed and expansive review of the book I edited in The New Yorker: newyorker.com/books/under-re…

Radu Jude's wild and raucous new film, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, is a transgressive movie of ideas about the chaos and confusion of our social media age.
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