Can’t wait. Loved You Dreamed of Empires.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo ago

Álvaro Enrigue’s “Now I Surrender” scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story, Carolina Miranda writes. She explores the Western that goes where even Cormac McCarthy wouldn’t:

Earlier this month, The Washington Post scuttled its Books section amid mass layoffs. Its former editor, @johnwilliams.bsky.social, on why he thinks the paper’s leaders are wrong about subscriber loyalty:

The Washington Post’s Books Section Worked

Why the editor of the scuttled review pages believes that the paper’s subscribers know better than its leaders

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Sadly out of town for this:

John Williams@johnwilliams.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak

The New Fabio Is Claude

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Breaking News: Will Lewis stepped down as the chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post days after it laid off hundreds of journalists.

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D’Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.

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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b... Gifted

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

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It’s remarkable to me what rich people chose to do with their money. Imagine you’re one of the richest people in the world. Imagine the responsibility. The gift. Imagine what you could do, especially at this time in this country, with The Washington Post. Instead you give $70 million to Melania.

Layoffs at the Washington Post! 🦋 www.cjr.org/news/layoffs...

Layoffs at the Washington Post

“Our leadership destroyed our brand.”

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My current and, sadly, last review for The Washington Post, as it retrenches and bows and eliminates its book section. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

Review | A historian corrects the record about the mysteries of Easter Island

In “Island at the Edge of the World,” Mike Pitts tells the story of the people who carved the giant heads on the remotest inhabited place on Earth.

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I asked @lancerichardson.bsky.social some questions about his major new biography of Peter Matthiessen. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

An ‘accidental biographer’ on Peter Matthiessen

Lance Richardson talks about “True Nature,” his biography of an acclaimed, versatile and fascinating writer

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Looking forward to this. DC peeps, do come!

Lance Richardson@lancerichardson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Two book events this weekend! Both with exceptional writer friends. Saturday in DC: Politics & Prose with @carlhoffman.bsky.social at 3pm. Details here: politics-prose.com/lance-richar... Sunday in Providence: Riffraff with @francescawade.bsky.social at 6pm. Details here: riffraffpvd.com/events/

DC folks - please come here @lancerichardson.bsky.social and I talk about True Nature, his wonderful new biography of Peter Matthiessen at @politicsprose.bsky.social Ct Ave. this Saturday, 3 pm. politics-prose.com/lance-richar...

Have fun!

Lance Richardson@lancerichardson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is tonight! NYPL in Manhattan.

A delicious read, this book. DC friends - please come see Lance and I discuss it at @politicsprose.bsky.social Saturday, 11/1 at 3 pm. politics-prose.com/lance-richar...

Lance Richardson@lancerichardson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Reviewed in The New Yorker.

Absurd as everything this admin does. And per usual just complete ignorance. Anyone interested in Amelia should read @lauriestories.bsky.social new book The Aviator and The Showman.

Clifton Lee@cliftonlee.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭whut da fuck? We are beyond an Idiocracy.... Cc: @carlhoffman.bsky.social

These people are nuts. They sound more and more like the Taliban or the right wing Israelis. They hate America.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 11mo ago

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social.

“...you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

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Congrats. I love True Nature and couldn’t agree more.

Lance Richardson@lancerichardson.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Floored by this review of my book by Pico Iyer. Gosh.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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All five of my books, plus several translations.

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · last yr.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

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Freedom, in the American context, has always meant the freedom to make bank at pretty much anyone’s expense.... My review of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West for The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com @bookcritics.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | The bloody, muddy true story of the real Deadwood

In his history of the legendary South Dakota gold rush town, Peter Cozzens explains how miners, outlaws, gamblers and other reprobates helped shape America.

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One hundred and eight five years after Melville shipped out of New Bedford, Ma., then the largest whaling port in the world, the city remains the highest grossing fishing port in the USA. Spending the next year reporting on it; heading out for ten days on the Debra C in pursuit of wild fish.

Well, I’m still here and still working! Not dead yet!

Jerry Beilinson@jbeilinson.bsky.social · last yr.

Came across Savage Harvest in a bookstore today; it's a great work by @carlhoffman.bsky.social that took crazy amounts of time, chutzpah, and skill to report. And I thought: Now that old-school magazines with real editorial budgets are dead, will we have writers like that anymore?

Reviewed James Rebanks's strange and beguiling new book for the Washington Post.

Review | On Norway’s coast, looking for an older, more thoughtful way to live

In ‘The Place of Tides,’ acclaimed nature writer James Rebanks visits a memorable woman committed to helping ducks

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What we have become: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

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In this lawless landscape of frail masculine egos clinging to cockeyed, and often booze-fueled, notions of honor, the bullets fly, the bodies pile up, the pages turn fast and easy...." My review of Bryan Burrough's The Gunfighters for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West

In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero.

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I love sulphur-crested cockatoos. wapo.st/43MWCi4

‘Opportunistic’ cockatoos wait in line, drink from fountains, study finds

The birds, which have also opened trash bins, were filmed operating fountain handles with complex maneuvers. Researchers say they are learning from one another.

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Town and Country weighs in on the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing at the Met; alone of the other pieces so far the reporter delved into the complexities of his collecting and the uneven, colonial power relationships of it. www.townandcountrymag.com/society/trad...

The Mysterious Disappearance and Lingering Legacy of Michael Rockefeller

The late scion of an American dynasty died under bizarre circumstances 64 years ago. Now, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum named for him is reopening and putting him back in the spotlight.

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Can't wait to go see the renovated and newly reopening Michael C. Rockefeller room in the Met. An error in the piece: the Asmat never lived in Papua New Guinea, but in Netherlands New Guinea in 1961, and what is today Indonesian West Papua. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/a...

The Most Wondrous Art in the World in 1,726 Objects

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