Associate Editor @thenation. Critic here and there.
Joined December 2012
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i went to arizona in august, at the height of summer, to answer a nagging question: why are there so many data centers, not to mention a water-guzzling chip factory, in the desert?
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Reviewed the new Debs biography nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books…
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I wrote about NAZA, automated warfare, and Israel’s hard-right shift for the @thenation
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Here's her moving piece explaining her diagnosis (and about death scenes in art): vulture.com/article/death-sc…
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TOMORROW: Join us at 7pm in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of our November print issue! Free to RSVP, complimentary copies of the issue will be available. Get your tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/the-novembe…
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Earlier this year, Sarah Chihaya was diagnosed with MSA—a terminal neurodegenerative disease. Right now, she can no longer read or write—this will be her last piece. And it's a brilliant one about Emily Brontë and unknowability. thenation.com/article/cultur…
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Not only does NAZA depict the horrors of our present. It also shows us a horrifying version of what the future might look like. @AhmedMoor in @booksandthearts thenation.com/article/world/…
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ICYMI: My great-great-grandfather was the namesake of an infamous institution for the disabled. From long-neglected records of the property, the lives of forgotten people were uncovered…. thenation.com/article/societ…
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Everyone citing Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer is thinking of the wrong Malcolm text re: "You Can See Everything." Real ones know it is The Impossible Profession that truly applies to Fielder's masterpiece.
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My first in @thenation as a staff member! I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's predicament with the NYPD: thenation.com/article/politi…
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For our November issue out today, I wrote about the queen Janet Malcolm and her untouchable form of journalism:
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For our November issue out today, I wrote about the queen Janet Malcolm and her untouchable form of journalism:
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Great piece, great read.
For our November issue out today, I wrote about the queen Janet Malcolm and her untouchable form of journalism:
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"The Absent Woman serves not only as a chronicle of her life but also as a history of the rise and fall of long-form journalism." Grateful for this attentive @APockros review of my book on Janet Malcolm, which comes out in a month -
Every journalist wants to claim Janet Malcolm as her own. A journalist’s journalist whose work is almost universally admired today, she is often held up as a great exemplar of literary reportage. For our November print issue, @APockros explores Malcolm's legacy: thenation.com/article/societ…
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I thought I'd already traced the long history and dismantled the terms of this "male" vs. "female" readers/ authors/ narrators/ characters debate in my @nybooks piece on gender and style. I suppose blunt forms of biological determinism are, uh, "sticky." nybooks.com/articles/2023/11…
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"When we clamor for Janet Malcolm, we’re clamoring for a style of writing that we know we will never get to practice—for better and for worse." @APockros in @BooksandtheArts thenation.com/article/societ…
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NEW: Our November print issue is out now! Over the next week, we'll be rolling out the issue as it goes online. Subscribe to read the full issue today at subscriptions.thenation.com?….
ALT The cover of The Nation magazine, November 2022 issue, titled "(Mis)Adventures in the Manosphere." It features a painting of a person with wavy hair wearing a gray shirt against a dark background. The cover also lists feature articles by Rebecca Solnit and on the topics of the Midterms and Janet Malcolm. The background is a light purple.