I profiled Samuel R. Delany—sci-fi pioneer, gay radical, literary genius—for @NewYorker’s fiction issue

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Belated post: earlier this year, @NewYorker ran a powerful piece by @jcljules on the Slave Wrecks Project, a network that combines maritime archaeology and reparative justice. It traces the beginnings of the project to the 2015 discovery of the São José - the first known wreck

Jack Whitten made it his life’s mission to give abstraction soul. I wrote about the restless experimentalism behind the artist’s magnificent retrospective at @MuseumModernArt

Honored to have had the chance to spend time and share words with this literary genius and revolutionary before his passing. https://t.co/vi7rSg0wLS

I wrote about a literary profile that disillusioned me about an idol—and showed me what the form can do. On Hilton Als’s “The Islander,” a portrait of Derek Walcott @NewYorker

I wrote about a literary profile that disillusioned me about an idol—and showed me what the form can do. On Hilton Als’s “The Islander,” a portrait of Derek Walcott @NewYorker

"Audition is the author’s most ambitious work, a nervy tale that turns on itself to test the boundaries of the novel form." @simplylovia in @BooksandtheArts on @katiekitamura's Audition and the divided selves that populate her fiction

“People are comforted by a rendering of a figure. It satisfies a particular kind of desire around presence. For me? I like to complicate.” I profiled Lorna Simpson—artist, eBay fiend, and Brooklyn institution—for @NewYorker’s centenary issue on NYC

Thrilled to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book, ON MORRISON, out from @HogarthBooks January 27, 2026! Thank you to @People Magazine for the announcement (link in thread).

“People are comforted by a rendering of a figure. It satisfies a particular kind of desire around presence. For me? I like to complicate.” I profiled Lorna Simpson—artist, eBay fiend, and Brooklyn institution—for @NewYorker’s centenary issue on NYC

Lorna Simpson is “contemporary art’s astronomer of the archives, always searching for the dark matter that ‘documentary’ images conceal,” @jcljules writes. Read a new profile of the artist who uses archival material to challenge ways of looking.

You can draw a straight line from “extraordinary renditions” to this. Every exception is precedent. And in geopolitics and when unchecked, every precedent is escalation.

this is torture https://t.co/K7Wps8tlRW

The Trump Administration is laying waste to masses of government records. On this front, at least, it’s facing well-organized resistance, from a loose coalition of archivists and librarians—“nerds who care.”

Trump is purging the federal web in a digital book burning of unprecedented scale. I wrote about the librarians and “data hoarders” who are backing it up as fast as they can

I wrote about why the movies feel so heavy handed these days. Say less! (Literally.) https://t.co/9bZUuLVgmj

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

The slave ship Camargo carried 500 souls across the Atlantic before it burned and sank off the coast of Brazil. For his most recent New Yorker piece, @jcljules explored its remains with a global network of maritime archeologists. Read it here: https://t.co/7IQvEEH6Kj

I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship—and wrote about the global network of maritime archeologists excavating the Middle Passage https://t.co/k3kZMD9aDW

@Rebeccamead_NYC .@jcljules reports on the Slave Wrecks Project, a global network of maritime archeologists working to excavate wrecks of slave ships and to reconnect Black communities to the deep.