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CPJ and 31 other press freedom and human rights organizations urge UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to intensify his diplomatic efforts to secure Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abdelfattah’s release. Read more: cpj.org/2025/05/cpj-ot… #FreeAlaa 📷: Leon Neal/Pool via Reuters

★ Aatish Taseer reflects on his relationship to place, what it means to be cut off from one’s home, and what leads to the formation of national identity. Sumptuously written and elegantly observed, this is a stunning and immersive vision of a fully interdependent world.

.Publishers Weekly—a starred review of “A Return to Self” out on July 15 with Catapult and HarperCollins

What a New American Citizen Learned On Route 66: A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place (NYT) nytimes.com/2025/05/15/t-m…

Starred and boxed! ☺️Publishers Weekly

The Kenyan writer and perennial Nobel runner-up Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died. In 2022, DW Gibson drove through Southern California with him—and discussed what living among strip malls meant for a writer whose work centers on particularity: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

‘Seeking Justice for Lynching, Demolitions Not a Crime’: Former Civil Servants Group on Mahmudabad thewire.in/rights/seeking…

Krishnan KishoreIyer Aatish Taseer "Over dinner, conversation turned to my going to college. Naipaul told me not to go....my mother looked to him for further explanation. ‘Indians, Tavleen,’ ... ‘they go to these places, they get dazzled by the institution and they come away having learnt nothing but the babble.’"

NEW At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with President Trump. Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to

July 30 Politics and Prose This will be REALLY good. Aatish Taseer I hope I'm in town. Fingers crossed!

The joys of being back Upstate! ❤️

I’m getting Putin and Khodorkovsky vibes…#TrumpMuskFeud

The President of the United States is lying. It’s incredible and incredibly dangerous.