The Israeli military in Gaza has come very close to imposing death by algorithm. Technically, a soldier reviews the death lists that the algorithm generates, but the review is perfunctory. Palestinians in effect are being attacked by killer robots. nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

The Lancet estimates that up to 186 000 or even more people have been killed in Gaza in the current conflict thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I wrote about Janet Planet, a film about the difference between watching and seeing, pretending and being nybooks.com/online/2024/08…

Annie Baker is the genius of our time, and this is an extraordinary examination of why

Andrew Katzenstein on what makes a screwball go.nybooks.com/3AY1tBW

must-read zoë hu on the complicity of war reporting thebaffler.com/latest/you-had…

I got into it with Rashid Khalidi for the holiday issue of The New York Review of Books

Absolute Bagels is shuttered as of Thursday morning. westsiderag.com/2024/12/12/abs…

Max (Max Nelson) with a tremendous survey of David Lynch's films and obsessions newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

The New York Review of Books is seeking an online editor nybooks.com/jobs/?utm_sour…

Nadia Abu El-Haj (Nadia Abu El-Haj) on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil go.nybooks.com/4i0dXd7

If you are a Columbia alumni, don’t let the anti-Palestinian folks take the upper hand. Sign on to this letter: docs.google.com/document/u/0/d…

BREAKING: Haaretz Confirms Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Fire on Unarmed Starving Civilians at Aid Sites A major Haaretz investigation confirms Israeli soldiers in Gaza were ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians gathering near food distribution sites — even when they posed no

Read this: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…