To my wonderful followers: I’m not boarding up these windows, but you’re likelier to find me here from now on. We’re just starting to get up and running.

I am reminded that, when Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize, Jeff Bezos declared that his favorite novel had long been "The Remains of the Day." This raises the fascinating question: What does Jeff Bezos think "The Remains of the Day" is about?

Universities went from last year's protests and speech conflicts to this year's threats of federal defunding. Leading this week's The New Yorker, my report from Harvard—the flagship of American higher education—as it struggles for both its soul and its life. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

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Brown University Sociology@Brown Story Public Square Thomas Patterson Jim Ludes @gwaynemiller john seely brown Morning Joe Robert Costa heyyyyyyyy auntie Kurt Andersen Dan Little Tom Perez Watson Institute Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social Craig Calhoun IPK Natasha Warikoo Chinyere Agbai American Sociological Review Bart Bonikowski University of Michigan Todd Gitlin Dan Yorke State of Mind Emma Chow Alex Cramer Craig Melvin bill peduto Peter Baker Glenn Kessler Charles M. Blow Neal Katyal George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 Kamala Harris Governor Josh Shapiro Gavin Newsom Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Senator Patty Murray ARCHIVE: Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster Rep. Ilhan Omar James E. Clyburn Jasmine Crockett Sen. Tammy Baldwin Columbia University Harvard University University of Minnesota Richard W. Painter Macalester College Trump sees "unis, in the main, as enemies in the political culture wars.. but the protests of the past year have given the offensive a special edge (with his 2019) exec order to formalize antisemitism protections in Title VI" newyorker.com/magazine/2025/… 1/

Brown University Sociology@Brown Story Public Square Thomas Patterson Jim Ludes @gwaynemiller john seely brown Morning Joe Robert Costa heyyyyyyyy auntie Kurt Andersen Dan Little Tom Perez Watson Institute Rob Blair - robertblair.bsky.social Craig Calhoun IPK Natasha Warikoo Chinyere Agbai American Sociological Review Bart Bonikowski University of Michigan Todd Gitlin Dan Yorke State of Mind Emma Chow Alex Cramer Craig Melvin bill peduto Peter Baker Glenn Kessler Charles M. Blow Neal Katyal George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 Kamala Harris Governor Josh Shapiro Gavin Newsom Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Senator Patty Murray ARCHIVE: Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster Rep. Ilhan Omar James E. Clyburn Jasmine Crockett Sen. Tammy Baldwin Columbia University Harvard University University of Minnesota Richard W. Painter Those #AttackingUnis may not care about #HigherEd but our nation ought, for this knowledge culture is one of this country's greatest strengths. We need understand its qualities & newyorker.com/magazine/2025/… is 1 good place to start, even from Brown University. Thx Nathan Heller 16/16

In this coming week’s The New Yorker, I review Graydon Carter’s memoir of good times in the magazine business, and offer some thoughts on creative life today. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

"If the golden rule for a writer is to try to avoid situations where you find yourself writing something you wouldn’t read, a similar calculus probably applies to assigning and editing stories." --Nathan Heller newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

In light of Columbia’s president being replaced by the co-chair of its board of trustees on a Friday evening—“effective immediately”—I’m re-upping my ground-reported big-picture piece about the tangled situation in which leading research universities now find themselves.

⁦sounds right. ⁦Nathan Heller⁩ on Graydon Carter in yes, the New Yorker

This, from Nathan Heller, is one of the best distillations of magazine writing that I have ever seen:

Powerful institutions are bartering their strength away by playing for Trump’s favoritism, but now is not the time to make sacrifices to get ahead, Nathan Heller writes. nyer.cm/zoMqr0Z

Timely enough: my new @newyorker comment on the Favoritism Grift. The President benefits by encouraging his allies and opponents to seek special favor—and institutions that should know better are predisposed to play along. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

.Nathan Heller on Donald Trump’s favoritism grift: the more you give to some people while excoriating others, the more you can manage to take. nyer.cm/cuB0d1R

Today's news is an important show of strength from Harvard and its leadership in the face of the Administration.

A quick note that I'm due to join Jennifer Egan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lorrie Moore, James Wood, and other bright lights onstage at 92NY next month for an evening of tribute to Martin Amis. Omnia omnibus; consider coming if you can. 92ny.org/event/a-celebr…

This is this evening, and Salman Rushdie is joining us, too. Looking forward.

Move fast, ask nothing, learn nothing, break things, go home. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/…

A really lovely writeup of the Martin Amis event a bunch of us did onstage at 92Y a couple of weeks ago, from the Paris Review. theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/2…

In this week's Shouts & Murmurs, an important report from me with details about the new James Bond. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…