Sarah Weinman
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Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
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· Nov 11
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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Why do I keep writing books that are all too relevant to the present moment
February 6, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Why do I keep writing books that are all too relevant to the present moment
The linked essay is very good; the photo is remarkable.
there is an infamous 'joke' lecture they invited him to do about groping. they didn't just think it was acceptable, they thought it was hilarious.
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The linked essay is very good; the photo is remarkable.
Reposted by Sarah Weinman
i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
I can barely watch tv and video why on earth would I want to make them, leave me to text and audio, which I enjoy and am good at
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
February 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I can barely watch tv and video why on earth would I want to make them, leave me to text and audio, which I enjoy and am good at
Reposted by Sarah Weinman
Tangentially, if you haven’t already read @gracepanetta.bsky.social’s new story about the discussion of #MeToo in the Epstein Files, you really should.
Epstein tracked #MeToo fallout and advised accused men behind the scenes
New files released by the Justice Department show Jeffrey Epstein joking about being in a "pariahs club" and discussing the fate of powerful men who had been accused of wrongdoing.
19thnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Tangentially, if you haven’t already read @gracepanetta.bsky.social’s new story about the discussion of #MeToo in the Epstein Files, you really should.
Who is this *we* you are all talking about, I'm not in there
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Who is this *we* you are all talking about, I'm not in there
Shakespeare: timeless, timely, prescient, brilliantly performed.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Shakespeare: timeless, timely, prescient, brilliantly performed.
Same here.
All this antisemitism has made me so much more Jewish.
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Same here.
Regency Ocean’s Eleven? Yeah I’d read this
It just occurred to me to wonder…is there already a book in which all of the cads from Austen novels get together and plan one last con? Willoughby, Wickham, Henry Crawford, the younger Mr Elliot…they cordially loathe each other but they have to admit their combined powers are formidable!
4. It took me way too long to piece this together … Wickham had tried to elope with Georgianna the summer right before Bingley let Netherfield. So of course Darcy was uptight and on edge when he first met everyone because he had just thwarted Wickham’s revenge plan!
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Regency Ocean’s Eleven? Yeah I’d read this
What a piece by @helenshaw.bsky.social on the remarkable life of Libby Howes.
The Actress Who Disappeared Twice
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
What a piece by @helenshaw.bsky.social on the remarkable life of Libby Howes.
That's right. Book World as a standalone section came back in 2022.
Not downplaying today’s news but worth noting that this is at least the second time they’ve killed a books section, eliminating the stand-alone “Book World” maybe 20 years ago?
The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak
February 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
That's right. Book World as a standalone section came back in 2022.
Reposted by Sarah Weinman
I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
February 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
Reposted by Sarah Weinman
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Jesus fucking Christ
WaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
“Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said
More in tonight’s Status
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Jesus fucking Christ
I had to handwrite a short piece in another language and what an utterly humbling experience, less for the language mistakes and more for being totally out of practice handwriting
February 4, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I had to handwrite a short piece in another language and what an utterly humbling experience, less for the language mistakes and more for being totally out of practice handwriting
"Elite impunity" is also why people like William F. Buckley Jr. could be bffs with an actual murderer and not only not care about the teenage victim, but smear her in print
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
"Elite impunity" is also why people like William F. Buckley Jr. could be bffs with an actual murderer and not only not care about the teenage victim, but smear her in print
Hell of a thread here.
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Hell of a thread here.
I can only be angry about one thing today and this is it
To give u an idea of how powerful men protect each other, remember Moira Donegan's "Shitty Men in Media" list? Here are former Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein (who got fired for being named), Michael Wolff, & Epstein discussing backing Stephen Eliott to supress MeToo
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I can only be angry about one thing today and this is it
Great essay and truly cannot wait to read the book.
"As far as I’m concerned, remembering that I’m “first, last, and always an American” is a means of rejecting the claim, promulgated by antisemites as well as Zionists, that I am anything else."
This, by Lily Meyer, is lovely. Happy pub day to her.
lithub.com/lily-meyer-o...
This, by Lily Meyer, is lovely. Happy pub day to her.
lithub.com/lily-meyer-o...
Lily Meyer on Philip Roth, Anti-Zionism, and Her Relationship to American Judaism
Philip Roth, Zadie Smith writes in her essay collection Dead and Alive, was a patriot. An “unusually patriotic writer,” in fact. Smith met Roth when he was in his eighties, retired from writing, an…
lithub.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Great essay and truly cannot wait to read the book.
Here, belatedly, is the paper's obit for James Sallis.
James Sallis, 81, Dies; Novelist Whose ‘Drive’ Became a Hit Movie
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Here, belatedly, is the paper's obit for James Sallis.
“I can’t think of the last time where in the middle of the night in someone’s bed, an 84-year-old woman disappeared on us."
Savannah Guthrie’s Missing Mother Believed to Be Taken from Home Against Her Will, Police Say
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31 in her home outside Tucson, which is now considered a crime scene, police said Monday.
www.today.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
“I can’t think of the last time where in the middle of the night in someone’s bed, an 84-year-old woman disappeared on us."
No reason but Lila Shapiro is, in fact, an incredible journalist.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:50 AM
No reason but Lila Shapiro is, in fact, an incredible journalist.
Turns out if your name is in the Epstein files almost 1800 times there might be consequences
CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links | Exclusive
Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced Peter Attia’s hiring last week as part of her new vision for the network, but since then he appeared in the Epstein files.
www.thewrap.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Turns out if your name is in the Epstein files almost 1800 times there might be consequences
Reposted by Sarah Weinman
Even the non-incriminating stuff is so creepy.
February 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Even the non-incriminating stuff is so creepy.
Fantastic essay by @judyberman.bsky.social on why domestic thrillers are "the defining metaphor of our time."
The Domestic Thriller Is the Defining Metaphor of Our Time
From 'The Housemaid' to 'All Her Fault,' the genre has become something more profound than a Hollywood trend.
time.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Fantastic essay by @judyberman.bsky.social on why domestic thrillers are "the defining metaphor of our time."