The wife watching the husband sleep in a short fiction by Tove Ditlevsen's .

New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…

'Richard Serra is our great sculptor, like it or not. I say relax and like it.' Schjeldahl from '19. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

Andrew Wyeth, Day Dream, 1980.

God I love stuff like this

Jackson Arn on Emily Mason
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Pianist Glenn Gould soaking his fingers before performing – 📷 by Gordon Parks, 1955

The clarity and elegance of Roberta Smith's writing hardly need mentioning. What I have always admired about Smith is her shoe-leather reporting. She sees everything, first. More than 4,500 reviews, essays: an astonishing run—that will thankfully continue. nytco.com/press/roberta-…

'I'm pretty sure everything I'm writing is shit.' It's a good morning to read Maya Binyam's wonderful profile of Percival Everett. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

'A final worry: am I being confessional?' Lauren Oyler being very smart and funny and deflationary—buy her book! newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Like any great essay, this by Becca Rothfeld—on sex, Cronenberg, and the 'body horror' of consent—invents a new frame to accommodate its insights. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Michael is a brilliant and beloved colleague, steeped (as this thread shows) in the one art that keeps a magazine alive: sensibility. Also one of the great headline writers of all time.

Today, I learned that the poet @mosababutoha has been taken from his family and detained in Gaza. He is reportedly in Israel Defense Forces custody.

I've had the privilege of editing Mosab for @newyorker. He has a wife and three kids.

I call for his immediate release. newyorker.com/news/essay/the…

'I'm still looking at the ceiling. No flies anymore. I make some tea but forget to sip it. Now dust from the two explosions is settling on the couches, rug, and table.' A chillingly minute account, from Gaza, by Mosab Abu Toha: newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

This is neat: Here are DFW’s candid assessments of a lot of the stories being considered for the 1997 O. Henry Awards, for which he was one of the judges. All the stories he mentions were collected in this book.

Hard to forget Knausgaard on Fosse as teacher: newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Super fun to write about THE STROKES for THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: nybooks.com/articles/2023/… The New York Review of Books (thanks to Jana Prikryl for great edits)

I’m proud to announce the upcoming publication of my book, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. It’s about the US, Central America, and immigration from the 1980s to the present. Out from penguinpress in January! Pre-order it here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/e…

Why can’t museums figure out how to exhibit video games? I consider MOMA’s recent attempt alongside a history of others—and wonder whether virtual worlds can be reconciled with the white cube
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Where do poems take place? For this week’s issue of The New Yorker, I wrote about the various answers given to that question in “I Do Everything I’m Told,” a moving new collection by Megan Fernandes (@mfernandespoet). newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…