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Zamira Rahim
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Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · Jun 15
Got to see my fiction in print for the first time, which has been a weirdly emotional experience. You spend five years squinting at something on a Google Doc and it doesn't seem real, until suddenly it very much is.
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I will read anything Capote wrote about his itinerant, lonely childhood and the moments of joy he found within it (thinly veiled as fiction) www.penguin.co.uk/discover/art...
And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven.
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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London and environs - come along!
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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There are a few jobs going here at the NYT in London, so I'm threading these links for folks who are interested. It's a great place to work. Please pass these on to any journo friends you know. www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
Correspondent, Breaking News Hub, London | The New York Times Company
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November 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Radhika Jones did some truly excellent work at Vanity Fair and I hope she gets another big, serious gig soon.
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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A strikingly lovely and melancholy piece on Salman Rushdie, his 'late style' and his role now as the patriarch who 'sired a whole tribe of postcolonial literature' www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
As a child, I saw my father’s namesake in a book; since then, the realisation has grown that South Asians writing in English – especially British Muslims – have in Rushdie another father. Between us all there is, Rushdie once said, a “family quarrel”; Muslims of my father’s generation never forgave Rushdie and Rushdie never forgave them, for the pain of rejection by his “own characters”. But I found in Rushdie a faith-affirming writer.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
It's hard to beat this photo, though. Tragic.
Huge Fire Engulfs Apartment Buildings in Hong Kong
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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duncanrobinson.bsky.social
Doing a U-turn on a tax the market both wanted and expected on the day of the budget itself would have been absolute smackhead behaviour. From great piece by @pronouncedalva.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I could spend all day looking at this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
Intriguing look at the business (and the inconvenience) behind the impeccables homes you see in TV dramas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
Why does this appeal to homeowners? People love the money. They want to see beautiful photos of their home on TV or in a magazine. Being associated with show business can be glamorous. It’s like being invited to the prom. If your house gets chosen, it’s flattering. It means it’s beautiful.
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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If you want any of my books, including the upcoming new edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill with an intro by me and a conversation between Stoya and me, now's an excellent time to shop because @unnamedpress.bsky.social is offering a sweet holiday deal.
Chelsea G. Summers — Unnamed Press
Chelsea G. Summers is the author of the best-selling novel A Certain Hunger. Summers’ work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vogue, The New Republic, Racked, The Guardian, and other fine publications...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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. . . from his ‘A Garage in Co. Cork’:
“Here in this quiet corner of Co. Cork A family ate, slept, and watched the rain Dance clean and cobalt the exhausted grit So that the mind shrank from the glare of it. Where did they go? South Boston? Cricklewood? Somebody somewhere thinks of this as home, Remembering the old pumps where they stood, Antique now, squirting juice into a cream Lagonda or a dung-caked tractor while A cloud swam on a cloud-reflecting tile. Surely a whitewashed sun-trap at the back Gave way to hens, wild thyme, and the first few Shadowy yards of an overgrown cart track, Tyres in the branches such as Noah knew— Beyond, a swoop of mountain where you heard, Disconsolate in the haze, a single blackbird.”
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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My feed is a mix of Americans up late and reading Lizza and Brits waking up early to watch the cricket. I have realised that my true tribe is somehow in the overlap.
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) has won the National Book Award for Fiction! Read more here:
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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up
I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my world sucks, I shut the drapes, hide under the cover, and read. And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy novels,…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Re that Vanity Fair piece.... a lot of writers think Joan Didion was successful because of the images in her work (the yellow silk hanging from the windows, the smell of jasmine) and the famous photos of the Corvette. But Didion writes with unsparing precision and her work has a brutal streak.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Did not realise that the folks at St. John had taken over the old LRB cake shop but I'm so pleased that they did
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Yup it is.
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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'Spring and Fall' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I kinda want Chotiner to interview Nuzzi
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
zamirarahim.bsky.social
I decided to finally read Middlemarch on my month off work - it's filled with sublime, carefully written passages like this, where Dorothea visits her marital home for the first time.
It had a small park, with a fine old oak here and there, and an avenue of limes towards the southwest front, with a sunk fence between park and pleasure-ground, so that from the drawing-room windows the glance swept uninterruptedly along a slope of greensward till the limes ended in a level of corn and pastures, which often seemed to melt into a lake under the setting sun.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
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This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
Booker Prize winner David Szalay, who abandoned Flesh several times in the early stages, stresses the importance of risk when writing a novel
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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iammilliam.bsky.social
RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
backlisted.bsky.social Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 14d
We are very sad to learn of the death of our friend Rachel Cooke. In addition to being a wonderful writer and a superb critic, she loved books to her core. She kept us on our toes and it was a joy and a privilege to spend time with her, on and off the show. RIP. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
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Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM