A new memoir by Manjula Martin exposes the ways climate change will reach into the most personal recesses in our life, writes Casey Schwartz. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

A new memoir by Manjula Martin exposes the ways climate change will reach into the most personal recesses in our life, writes Casey Schwartz. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

'Martin’s memoir is the first one I’ve read that centers this mission, these feelings and thoughts, this struggle with the great climate catastrophe of our time. I’m certain that it won’t be the last.'

Casey Schwartz on Manjula Martin ("manjula" on bluesky)'s memoir

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Powerful Casey Schwartz “I’m trying so hard to be the Palatable Jew,” a friend says to me. She is telling me this one morning as we stand in front of our synagogue, where, overnight, black graffiti has been sprayed all over the sidewalk” via New York Times Books nytimes.com/2024/01/17/boo…

“Here is a portrait of a man confronting a surging antisemitism he hadn’t known — or wanted to know — existed.” Casey Schwartz on reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries of Hitler’s Germany in 2023. nyti.ms/3O3WUty

A biography of the great Chinese American actress Anna May Wong considers the epic sweep of her life -- and how it was shaped by the profound anti-Chinese sentiment of her day. nyti.ms/45iOrcO

It was a pleasure to write about Anna May Wong and her newest biographer, ⁦⁦Yunte Huang⁩, for ⁦New York Times Books⁩. nytimes.com/2023/08/22/boo…

Amid a Wave of Antisemitic Hate Crimes, a New York Unit Offers a Model of Resistance | Vanity Fair vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/a…

'By withdrawing the book, she has set a terrible precedent.'

Franklin Foer on Elizabeth Gilbert

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This was such a pleasure to work on. Thanks Not That John Williams

I wrote about Matthew Pratt Guterl and his new book Skinfolk, out today from Liveright Books

“I don’t see why everyone isn’t doing it. You are your own boss. You make your own hours. And you’re working with people’s fantasies.” nytimes.com/2023/03/22/sty…

I reviewed Keiron Pim’s brilliant new biography of Joseph Roth for the Washington Post Book World. It’ll be in print this Sunday! ⁦Post Book World⁩ ⁦The Washington Post⁩

It was a huge pleasure to write for ⁦Not That John Williams⁩ washingtonpost.com/books/2023/01/…

'The novel is an emotional artifact, a remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and—this may feel most familiar to us today—the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point.'

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Terrific piece by Casey Schwartz on Joseph Roth—who wrote (1934):“The epoch-making discovery of modern dictatorships is the invention of the loud lie, based on the psychologically correct assumption that people will believe a shout when they doubt speech.” nytimes.com/2022/11/26/boo…

My feature on Keiron Pim and his new biography of the great, indelible Joseph Roth.

And shoutout to them waiting so long that it gave tons of people time to read up on the origin of the company, and how the founder of the company was a member of the Nazi Party.

Over the past few months, we’ve looked at how technology is having a fundamental impact on what it means to be human in our Technology & Self podcast series.

Casey Schwartz Dr. Jillian Horton @susie_alegre Sharath Jeevan OBE (Intrinsic Labs) Krista Tippett LM Sacasas

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New pod alert! Finally, the definitive #bts account of the front-line fight against Covid in early 2020 in NYC: Marie Brenner’s 📖 The Desperate Hours. On #HHW , we talk thru the horrors+heroism+humanity on display at the pandemic’s epicenter. Get it here: recount.co/HHW

'Since 2017, there has been a 41 percent increase in antidepressant use for...teenagers...In the first two years of the pandemic, there was a 17.3 percent change in anxiety medications. It had been a 9.3 percent rate of change between 2017 and 2019.' nyti.ms/3yso0lD