James Pogue Matt Black Ian Penman “She imagined the conversation she’d had with Sophie playing out for all eternity, the life she thought she was leading being continually, casually mistaken for another’s.” A new story by Hannah Gold (Hannah Gold). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“Laura had always said that wanting was better than needing, because it was a product of the imagination and the driver of all ingenuity, artistic or otherwise. But why did that make it superior to needing?” New fiction by Hannah Gold (Hannah Gold). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

So happy to have Lily Scherlis on the cover ! of Harper's Magazine with this piece, looking into the managerial obsession with improving employees' "soft skills" and the anxieties it reveals about the future of work, control, and adaptability. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Can we just be honest about this for a fucking second: the current government of the US is using the protection of Jews to disappear people from our streets for their political speech. On your behalf. You got what you wanted. They're the nazis. You're a collaborator.

In the new @harpers: John Jeremiah Sullivan on Mark Twain harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Thank you, Sam Adler-Bell, for the great conversation! We talked about cross-cultural patterns in witches and messianic movements, and how they manifest in the modern political scene:

Here’s the Jaw-dropping story everyone from Silicon Valley to Washington is talking about: Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

We mourn the passing of Edmund White, a great writer of the body electric. White first appeared in Granta as a translator of Milan Kundera from the French, and was a contributing editor at the magazine. In honour of his life and work, we have unlocked his writing for Granta.

from john lahr’s 2002 profile of mira nair: newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

🚨 Gold on Ozick thenation.com/article/cultur…

Cynthia Ozick’s characters’ predicaments illustrate how the desire for artistic immortality, like any religious practice, can be superficial and transcendent, painful and pleasurable, writes Hannah Gold in her review of a new collection of Ozick's work. thenation.com/article/cultur…

I wrote about the sudden moral wakefulness over Gaza, whether the dam is breaking, and why now. New York Magazine

How to describe a Cynthia Ozick's essays? "Ideas are earthquakes; feelings are floods; literature can lift us up or smite us down" thenation.com/article/cultur…

Despite its fascinating setting, Kate Riley’s “Ruth,” which follows a woman born into an insular Christian commune, has little to say about community or faith, Hannah Gold writes. nyer.cm/GvIlo09

As the architects of Biden's disastrous Gaza policy attempt to revise history, I spoke to several of the 15 Biden officials who resigned over the genocide New York Magazine “It’s all been calculated the entire time, then and now. It’s all for their own political power and greed.”