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I traveled home to Minnesota to report on the rolling fallout of Operation Metro Surge. Both the occupation and neighborhood responses was breathtaking in scale. History in the making.

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Fifteen Below Zero | Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Driving to St. Paul from the airport you pass under Fort Snelling, an enormous limestone structure from the early nineteenth century. In November 1862,
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January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah
The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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new interview !
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Runaway Short-Termism | Susannah Glickman, Nic Johnson
Since retaking the presidency in January, Donald Trump has initiated a blitz of chaotic, damaging economic policies. For months, as Nic Johnson wrote in
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I had the great honor of writing the introduction to the @enchantedlion.bsky.social edition of Gianni Rodari's Adventures of Cipollino, translated by Antony Shugaar. This expands on that introduction! Huge thanks to Max Nelson for letting me dig into kids' books, produce, and the joy of the absurd.
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“It is impossible not to extrapolate freely from Cipollino’s dense materiality, not to transpose our own urgent concerns onto its sly inventions. That we’re mostly dealing with fruits and vegetables shouldn’t discourage…generative projection.” — @markkrotov.bsky.social
‘Who is Mr. Babycarrot?’ | Mark Krotov
My daughter Daria and I first encountered Antony Shugaar’s translation of Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales several years ago, peering out at us from the
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November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"A new life cycle amid the ecological breakdown.” Two years of work. Biologists, fishermen, anthropologists, translators, journalists to reconstruct the massive social and environmental changes a salmon lived in her journey across the Americas, from Oregon to Paraná.
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When a Salmon Strays | Ernesto Semán
On November 15, 2022, Emiliano Almada woke up as usual at 4:30 AM in his home in Fighiera, a modest town twenty-five miles south of Rosario on the banks
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October 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb!

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The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman
Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic
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October 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"through the signs I saw the roads to Haifa, to Jaffa, to Jerusalem."

Doha Kahlout, translated by Yasmine Seale for @nybooks.com
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The Road from Gaza | Doha Kahlout, Yasmine Seale
I had been in Paris for more than a week when Gaza surfaced again, like a scar the body has come to accept. On the train to Argenteuil I sat facing the
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July 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out!
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Buried Sunshine | Jori Lewis
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we lived in a house in the country—on a rural road on the outskirts of Springfield, Illinois, where the water was
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July 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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In Dunya Mikhail's work, the mythic, the journalistic, and the poetic meet; war transforms into a Type A character, and Enheduana talks with Siri in a dream. My latest in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘Her Own Cuneiform’ | Anna Della Subin
The poet Dunya Mikhail is preoccupied with Iraq’s urgent present, but she studies it with the care of an archaeologist exhuming relics of the deep past.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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There was a moment in 2018 when the whole country was aghast at the specter of families separated under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy. Now, as we count down the days until Trump takes office again, they remain vulnerable. I reported on how &why for @nybooks.com

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The Reunited | Piper French
When I first spoke to David about the day US government agents took his son Arbi from him, the presidential elections felt a long way off. It was 2022
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December 12, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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Wrote for the NYRB about how the election reveals deep conflicts over the word "democracy" and how organizing toward a 2028 general strike and running a true candidate of the people in the Dem primary is essential for real democratic renewal (my vote is Shawn Fain).

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The Return of Trump—V | Astra Taylor, Michael Greenberg, Coco Fusco, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Thomas Powers, Anne Enright
Astra Taylor • Michael Greenberg • Coco Fusco • Verlyn Klinkenborg • Thomas Powers • Anne Enright Astra Taylor On election night, before Harris’s loss set
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November 13, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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I wrote on trans scapegoating: TL/DR: "Harris lost on the economy, not on pronouns. These Democrats are doing what they’ve long accused the Republicans of doing—turning on a vulnerable group to avoid confronting deeper problems in the country and in their own party." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
The Return of Trump—IV | Paisley Currah, Trevor Jackson, Kim Phillips-Fein, Ian Frazier, Adam Gaffney, Madeleine Schwartz
Paisley Currah • Trevor Jackson • Kim Phillips-Fein • Ian Frazier • Adam Gaffney • Madeleine Schwartz Paisley Currah This is what Donald Trump could do to
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November 11, 2024 at 7:04 PM