Brava, Karolina!! Couldn’t be more well-earned.

It was fun while it lasted.

To all the supporters here, to my spectacular colleagues, and to the booksellers, critics, agents, readers, and above all, the phenomenal authors I was blessed to work with:

Thank you thank you thank you thank you
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Yesterday, I suggested that the category 5 cyclone bearing down on India and Bangladesh in the midst of a pandemic and refugee crisis was a portent of climate cascades to come. Overnight, historic flooding breached two dams in Michigan, leaving Midland under 9 feet of water.

During a pandemic, an intense cyclone is bearing down on India and Bangladesh, flooding has broken dams and submerged Michigan under 9 ft of water, hurricane season is around the corner and wildfires will follow. We have exited the “human climate niche.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Before Time magazine there was Poets & Writers

A revolution has taken place in women’s intellectual life in the last 100 years. But the writing of women’s history lags behind. SQUARE HAUNTING by ⁦Francesca Wade⁩ & THE EQUIVALENTS by ⁦Maggie Doherty⁩, both fantastic, are helping it catch up. harpers.org/archive/2020/0…

Just finished Ben Hubbard's excellent MBS and highly recommend it to anyone puzzled or outraged by Saudi Arabia. Brings to life both the powerful appeal of MBS's gift of a more normal social life to young Saudis and the absolute medieval horror of his crimes. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601932/m…

I'm struck by how thoroughly male this contretemps is, especially given the #MeToo subject matter at the heart of it. (One data point: Of the nine people whose words are quoted here, not a woman among them.) vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/n…

'Davis's confrontational pose made for an unusually anxious workplace. At one NLR meeting, he stunned his audience into silence with the letter he had sent to Eugene Genovese, who had complained of being spurned by the journal: 'Dear Professor Genovese, Fuck you.''

Allies of jailed Saudis, having lost faith in the prospects of appealing to their own government, are turning to lawyers and lobbyists in DC and elsewhere to press their cases.

With Kenneth P. Vogel
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'Rich and powerful.' Ruth Franklin 🍵 on Francesca Wade's SQUARE HAUNTING for Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2020/0…

RIP the fabulous Frances Goldin, the Lower East Side's veteran warrior . Bless her rebel heart.

Journalistic high-mindedness from ⁦@benyt⁩, the guy who pubbed the Trump dossier without fact-checking a shred of it and who later refused to retract the Trump-instructed-Cohen-to-lie-to-Congress story. Rich with irony and quite brazen. nytimes.com/2020/05/17/bus…

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The vaccine in the film Contagion is distributed through a lottery. When a vaccine against Covid-19 is found it must be deployed as a global public good ft.com/content/cf0df3…

Very worrying situation and bad precedent as Russian MFA demands FT and NYT publish retractions to their stories claiming Russian Covid-19 death toll is higher than official numbers show (pieces in question based on analysis of official public data). mobile.twitter.com/CurrentTimeTv/…

Excited to see that SQUARE HAUNTING is a New York Times Books Editors' Choice! Brava, Francesca Wade!

That Jared Kushner interview sent me on a journey to find some photos of him from the years he owned the Observer. I failed! But I found these instead

It was an honor to help Carnegie Corporation of New York select the 2020 #CarnegieFellows – their humanities and social sciences research will help us to better understand where we've been, where we're going, and the enduring challenges we face. Congratulations, fellows! carnegie.io/3fmcC0g

'If the Greatest Generation could defeat Nazi Germany and the empire of Japan on a smaller ration of meat, we can certainly eat less of it for the time being to spare the lives of meatpacking workers and their communities.' Eric Schlosser for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…