James Tager
@jrttager.bsky.social
Writer and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. Professional human rights and environmental advocate, policy-meets-culture wonk. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant reader, video game aficionado, coffee drinker.
@mekongreview.com 's tenth anniversary issue just dropped, including my interview with @trinhhuulong.bsky.social on how he built a library-in-exile of Vietnam's banned books. Read it now! And if you don't have a subscription to Mekong Review--I highly recommend it!
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The librarian of Vietnam’s banned books - Mekong Review
In a nondescript office on a university campus in Taipei, Trịnh Hữu Long maintains one of the world’s most extensive collections of Vietnamese banned books.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@mekongreview.com 's tenth anniversary issue just dropped, including my interview with @trinhhuulong.bsky.social on how he built a library-in-exile of Vietnam's banned books. Read it now! And if you don't have a subscription to Mekong Review--I highly recommend it!
mekongreview.com/the-libraria...
mekongreview.com/the-libraria...
It has long been a dream of mine to write something for @mekongreview.com, one of my favorite magazines.
So I'm proud to announce that my interview with the brilliant Vietnamese journalist @trinhhuulong.bsky.social will be coming out very soon in Mekong Review's upcoming issue!
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So I'm proud to announce that my interview with the brilliant Vietnamese journalist @trinhhuulong.bsky.social will be coming out very soon in Mekong Review's upcoming issue!
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Mekong Review, a quarterly literary magazine, publishes reviews, essays, interviews, fiction and poetry on and from Asia.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It has long been a dream of mine to write something for @mekongreview.com, one of my favorite magazines.
So I'm proud to announce that my interview with the brilliant Vietnamese journalist @trinhhuulong.bsky.social will be coming out very soon in Mekong Review's upcoming issue!
mekongreview.com
So I'm proud to announce that my interview with the brilliant Vietnamese journalist @trinhhuulong.bsky.social will be coming out very soon in Mekong Review's upcoming issue!
mekongreview.com
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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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Accompanying migrants to court, Bishop Pham of San Diego, a refugee himself, tells Trump to treat migrants “more justly, kindly and Christ-like…They are human beings. We live on a land where the majority of us were immigrants at one time or another.” www.courthousenews.com/san-diego-bi...
San Diego bishop tells Trump to treat migrants more ‘Christ-like’ after observing court hearings
San Diego's immigration court has seen masked ICE agents detain migrants and refugees after leaving mandatory court hearings.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Accompanying migrants to court, Bishop Pham of San Diego, a refugee himself, tells Trump to treat migrants “more justly, kindly and Christ-like…They are human beings. We live on a land where the majority of us were immigrants at one time or another.” www.courthousenews.com/san-diego-bi...
Currently reading up on this new major report from a coalition of environmental groups, offering their blueprint for preserving the Ohio River Basin, including the Tennessee River. Here's some good coverage from @tennesseelookout.com tennesseelookout.com/2025/06/09/r...
Report seeks federal funding for preserving Ohio River Basin, including Tennessee River • Tennessee Lookout
A coalition of environmental groups and researchers released a draft plan aiming to harness federal funding to protect the Ohio River.
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June 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Currently reading up on this new major report from a coalition of environmental groups, offering their blueprint for preserving the Ohio River Basin, including the Tennessee River. Here's some good coverage from @tennesseelookout.com tennesseelookout.com/2025/06/09/r...
Tremendously proud of my newest short story, "The Gardener's Departure", published by New Myths Publishing in their newest anthology "The Growers", which just dropped. If you're looking for some farmer-themed sci-fi and fantasy, pick yourself up a copy!
April 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tremendously proud of my newest short story, "The Gardener's Departure", published by New Myths Publishing in their newest anthology "The Growers", which just dropped. If you're looking for some farmer-themed sci-fi and fantasy, pick yourself up a copy!
Reposted by James Tager
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Currently reading: The Languages Lost To Climate Change www.noemamag.com/the-language...
The Languages Lost To Climate Change | NOEMA
Climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss are endangering languages across the globe.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Currently reading: The Languages Lost To Climate Change www.noemamag.com/the-language...
One of my 2025 resolutions is to switch my book-tracking app from GoodReads to a different service. Does anyone have any recommendations?
January 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
One of my 2025 resolutions is to switch my book-tracking app from GoodReads to a different service. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Interesting and insightful piece by my colleague @jeremycyoung.bsky.social, drawing some important historical thrulines between attacks on academic freedom today and similar attacks during the "Red Scare". #academicfreedom
PEN America's @jeremycyoung.bsky.social talks to Dr. Harry Keyishian, lead plaintiff in Keyishian v. Board of Regents, the landmark case that established academic freedom as a “special consideration” affording professors at least as much freedom of speech as other citizens: pen.org/the-plaintif...
The Plaintiff Who Secured Academic Freedom Sees Echoes of ‘Red Scare’ Today - PEN America
Keyishian's sacrifice helped make the modern American definition of academic freedom possible.
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January 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Interesting and insightful piece by my colleague @jeremycyoung.bsky.social, drawing some important historical thrulines between attacks on academic freedom today and similar attacks during the "Red Scare". #academicfreedom
Reposted by James Tager
PEN America's @jeremycyoung.bsky.social talks to Dr. Harry Keyishian, lead plaintiff in Keyishian v. Board of Regents, the landmark case that established academic freedom as a “special consideration” affording professors at least as much freedom of speech as other citizens: pen.org/the-plaintif...
The Plaintiff Who Secured Academic Freedom Sees Echoes of ‘Red Scare’ Today - PEN America
Keyishian's sacrifice helped make the modern American definition of academic freedom possible.
pen.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
PEN America's @jeremycyoung.bsky.social talks to Dr. Harry Keyishian, lead plaintiff in Keyishian v. Board of Regents, the landmark case that established academic freedom as a “special consideration” affording professors at least as much freedom of speech as other citizens: pen.org/the-plaintif...
Currently reading this sobering essay about, apparently, the only declassified photo of a "War on Terror" detainee in a CIA black site to date:
hyperallergic.com/970546/the-b...
hyperallergic.com/970546/the-b...
The Banal Evil of Atrocity Photography
In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of simultaneous remembering and forgetting.
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December 3, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Currently reading this sobering essay about, apparently, the only declassified photo of a "War on Terror" detainee in a CIA black site to date:
hyperallergic.com/970546/the-b...
hyperallergic.com/970546/the-b...