they should let you know in the movie’s wikipedia if tony leung’s going to have a weird beard

making dev patel the most english man alive isn’t going to fix brexit

my mom told me being a red diaper baby is a checkable privilege

Small-town Georgians are being put on probation, sometimes for years, over unpaid traffic fines, and forced to pay additional “supervision fees” to private probation companies. An ITT investigation found legislative reforms haven’t worked. inthesetimes.com/article/small-… via Nick Barber

New Interview: I talked to the political economist Ahilan Kadirgamar about the protest movement in Sri Lanka, the roots of the country’s economic crisis, and the long-term impact of Sri Lanka’s civil war. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

This is awful. A rich person should buy Bookforum and leave it completely alone

"For many nurses the last straw was being publicly valorized during the worst of the pandemic but still forced to work under untenable conditions."—Willa Glickman on New York City nurses, their strike this winter, and what they won: nybooks.com/online/2023/03…

My god. The autopsy shows bullet exit wounds through both of Tort's hands, indicating that their hands were raised when they were murdered. "The autopsy further reveals that Manuel was most probably in a seated position, cross-legged when killed." ajc.com/news/crime/fam…

New York's prison agency is cracking down on incarcerated people's journalism and art. New rules ban: - depicting prisons in a way that could "jeopardize safety or security"; - mentioning their crime; - getting paid for their work; - and more. nysfocus.com/2023/06/06/doc…

I reviewed Maya Binyam’s captivating debut novel “Hangman,” a dissection of migration and homecoming whose narrator (maddeningly, thrillingly) refuses to fill in the blanks newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Military history grows up: Greg Afinogenov on the man who embodied the relationship between empire and serfdom nybooks.com/articles/2023/…

With great sadness we're reporting 1,417 Palestinians killed so far, including 447 children.

“There is some hope, that’s what the doctor told me about my child.. I left and came back but couldn’t find my child, the doctor or even the hospital.”

"How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?" saree makdisi سريّ المقدسي on the carnage in Gaza and what Palestinian commentators cannot say: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

This is such a beautiful, thorough, and heartbreaking story by Willa Glickman for Hell Gate *subscribe today!* on Mauritanians arriving in NYC and how they're trying to find a path forward in a city that's increasingly hostile to sheltering them. Please read and share! hellgatenyc.com/mauritanian-as…

Today on the site we’ve published a series of recordings made over the past month by people—civilians, children, a doctor—in Gaza. “I really hope you can imagine it. I’m talking to you, but I’m tired from speaking, because I feel it’s useless.” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Palestinians in Gaza have the right to return under int'l law—not just to homes they've recently lost in Gaza, but also to the homes they fled or were expelled from 75 years ago in what's now Israel. Human Rights Watch's Sari Bashi on this core principle & her family's moving story in The New York Review of Books

Morley Musick is one of my favorite writers—everything he writes is totally idiosyncratic, old-school, and stratospherically funny and soulful. Psyched to have him writing a column at n+1: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Omar al-Najjar on working as a medical intern in Gaza go.nybooks.com/4aGGCQD

Great new dispatch on the Harvard encampment from Walter Johnson nybooks.com/online/2024/05…