Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
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Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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Huzzah, this is great timing...! A lovely #Thanksgiving for Joan Aiken and her wonderful Wolves Chronicles...no comeback necessary, they're all still running...! Come and find them on her website:
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Huzzah, this is great timing...! A lovely #Thanksgiving for Joan Aiken and her wonderful Wolves Chronicles...no comeback necessary, they're all still running...! Come and find them on her website:
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
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dont read The Bad Thing Part Three, read @hels.bsky.social on turkey carcasses, you'll be much happier www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Best Part of Thanksgiving, Bones and All
The menu is malleable, the gratitudes negotiable, but the turkey’s second life as stock is one of the greatest gifts of the entire blessed year.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
dont read The Bad Thing Part Three, read @hels.bsky.social on turkey carcasses, you'll be much happier www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Urgent Thanksgiving PSA !!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Urgent Thanksgiving PSA !!!!!
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"all appetite, no apology" whewwww that's the good stuff (as is turkey stock, I make a huge batch every year after Thanksgiving and it fucking rips)
Proud to continue to contribute bangers to the genre of “here’s a few paragraphs of heavy overwrought personal essay, anyway here’s a soup recipe”
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"all appetite, no apology" whewwww that's the good stuff (as is turkey stock, I make a huge batch every year after Thanksgiving and it fucking rips)
Proud to continue to contribute bangers to the genre of “here’s a few paragraphs of heavy overwrought personal essay, anyway here’s a soup recipe”
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Proud to continue to contribute bangers to the genre of “here’s a few paragraphs of heavy overwrought personal essay, anyway here’s a soup recipe”
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folks it's another @hels.bsky.social on thanksgiving banger: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Best Part of Thanksgiving, Bones and All
The menu is malleable, the gratitudes negotiable, but the turkey’s second life as stock is one of the greatest gifts of the entire blessed year.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
folks it's another @hels.bsky.social on thanksgiving banger: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I wrote an angsty diary entry on my emotions blog aka the New Yorker dot com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Best Part of Thanksgiving, Bones and All
The menu is malleable, the gratitudes negotiable, but the turkey’s second life as stock is one of the greatest gifts of the entire blessed year.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I wrote an angsty diary entry on my emotions blog aka the New Yorker dot com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
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here it is, the archived link for @hels.bsky.social 's cold oven turkey that I make every Thanksgiving
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
Issue #14: Cold-Oven Thanksgiving Turkey
= Hello! I recently tweeted a bare-bones method for roasting a perfect Thanksgiving turkey in a cold oven, and many people had lots of questions. =
web.archive.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
here it is, the archived link for @hels.bsky.social 's cold oven turkey that I make every Thanksgiving
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
Such a great idea let’s all do it
hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Such a great idea let’s all do it
Not to overromanticize farming, which is arduous low-margin labor, but sending me a press release about a cute fancy jam company and calling the farmer-owner an “entrepreneur” is … so icky. Why. Why would you voluntarily insert the decaying ghoul of capital into this bucolic narrative landscape.
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Not to overromanticize farming, which is arduous low-margin labor, but sending me a press release about a cute fancy jam company and calling the farmer-owner an “entrepreneur” is … so icky. Why. Why would you voluntarily insert the decaying ghoul of capital into this bucolic narrative landscape.
Uh oh I’m getting really into Slay the Spire
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Uh oh I’m getting really into Slay the Spire
I really cannot emphasize enough that if you like dark, horny, angry, extremely lefty big-ideas literature, you will ADORE this book
I have next to zero interest in Wicked the movie, but I’ve been rereading Wicked the book and I’m again struck by how brutal and intelligent and unflinchingly politically radical it is.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I really cannot emphasize enough that if you like dark, horny, angry, extremely lefty big-ideas literature, you will ADORE this book
Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Tools, Treats, and Trifles for Food Lovers
Our food critic’s annual roundup of gastronomic ideas for giving.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
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I feel like one of the problems with telling people to “believe women” is that it assumes the folks in need of telling already possess a baseline belief that women are people
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I feel like one of the problems with telling people to “believe women” is that it assumes the folks in need of telling already possess a baseline belief that women are people
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
Hopped into a yellow cab in midtown and the air inside was so dense with B.O. I gagged and hopped right out again, NYC is back babeyyyy
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Hopped into a yellow cab in midtown and the air inside was so dense with B.O. I gagged and hopped right out again, NYC is back babeyyyy
This is me with Terry Pratchett btw
If I even kind of know you and you start watching Taskmaster you can ask for my number when you get to the “I only want to talk about Taskmaster” phase
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is me with Terry Pratchett btw
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A chorus of Jewish New York communities, including Bend the Arc, are repudiating the ADL's blatant Islamophobia in a joint statement.
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Read more below:
Progressive Jewish groups say ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' is 'Islamophobic and racist' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish organizations are split along ideological and strategic lines over how to interact with the mayor-elect.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A chorus of Jewish New York communities, including Bend the Arc, are repudiating the ADL's blatant Islamophobia in a joint statement.
Read more below:
Read more below:
A few months ago I got my daughter this line-drawing Bluey sweatshirt (not my pic) which she’s been refusing to wear because “Bluey should be blue”—and today I was like, fuck it, what’s the point of owning something you don’t want to wear, and I went and got the crayola markers and we colored it in
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A few months ago I got my daughter this line-drawing Bluey sweatshirt (not my pic) which she’s been refusing to wear because “Bluey should be blue”—and today I was like, fuck it, what’s the point of owning something you don’t want to wear, and I went and got the crayola markers and we colored it in
When I try to explain this phenomenon to non-Jews I feel like I sound like a crazy person
Another Haaretz piece that I am struggling with, but this, in particular, just makes me feel like the "relationship" between Israel and the diaspora is — in the eyes of many Israelis — that the diaspora sends money while being dismissed as lesser Jews. Not healthy!
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When I try to explain this phenomenon to non-Jews I feel like I sound like a crazy person
smh, more AI insanity — it’s just one nipple
I am going to read this now, but not because of the AI summary Safari created
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
smh, more AI insanity — it’s just one nipple
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"Mallmann has always been an evangelist for the magnificence of vegetables (his most recent cookbook is “Green Fire”), and so the list of entrées includes an entire head of cauliflower, which tastes like an entire head of cauliflower." lol
It feels inelegant to say you should read my latest review because it’s very negative. You should read my latest review because it’s insane. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Mallmann has always been an evangelist for the magnificence of vegetables (his most recent cookbook is “Green Fire”), and so the list of entrées includes an entire head of cauliflower, which tastes like an entire head of cauliflower." lol
Anyway!
It feels inelegant to say you should read my latest review because it’s very negative. You should read my latest review because it’s insane. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Anyway!