I sold my short story collection! Couldn’t be happier to be working with Allie Merola and the team at Viking, I feel like I found my dream home. Thanks to my wise and tenacious agent Bill Clegg for everything.

Here's the review:

The restaurant where my brother works just got four stars in the Times!! So very proud of him, here he is presenting a box of mushrooms 🥲

My brilliant bf Chris Schlegel has some of his upcoming book of poetry, THE BLACKBIRD, excerpted in @parisreview 💜 if you like poesy about Rumsfeld — you've come to the right place

When the playwright Tom Stoppard died, “he left behind a theatre changed by his blistering intellect and blazing success, the heat and light that made the rest of our English-language garden grow,” Helen Shaw writes. https://t.co/TmEcnZwhW5

Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine is raising $4m to fund 800 full scholarships for students hit by Russia’s war ($5k each: tuition + accommodation). I meet them every day—studying between air-raid alerts and power cuts. Please donate

it rocks

always read @SamAdlerBell, and especially here and now

Good news if you like it when I write about Jews, the labor movement, socialism, Zionism, psychoanalysis, neoconservatives, and NYC baby. Bad news for the rest of you.

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 @NYMag “It’s all been calculated the entire time, then and now. It’s all for their own political power and greed.”

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.

How to describe a Cynthia Ozick's essays? "Ideas are earthquakes; feelings are floods; literature can lift us up or smite us down"

🚨 Gold on Ozick

I wrote about the sudden moral wakefulness over Gaza, whether the dam is breaking, and why now. @NYMag

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 @togglecoat in her review of a new collection of Ozick's work.

from john lahr’s 2002 profile of mira nair: https://t.co/6BLj2iIRA9

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.

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.

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.

Here’s the Jaw-dropping story everyone from Silicon Valley to Washington is talking about: Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America | The New Yorker

In the new @harpers: John Jeremiah Sullivan on Mark Twain

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

This January