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This just in husband can also read to LCD Soundsystem at top volume, I cannot, where are my obscure musical talents : /

The American left’s failures stem from a smug condescension toward voters. The left must embrace a more humble, inclusive irony that values pluralism and speaks to both material and spiritual alienation with sincerity. By Jessi Jezewska Stevens in The Point Magazine buff.ly/4gNHu8E

No one writes like Jessi Jezewska Stevens: thepointmag.com/politics/left-…

I'm so happy to share this news, especially because Isherwood is one of my favorite writers and one whose work was on my mind when writing Health and Safety.

musical talent update: knack for discovering surprise concerts at museum of mineralogy (due to low-key interest in rocks)

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

You can disagree with some (or all) of the tactics and rhetoric of the student protesters at Columbia--and I'm happy to debate this in the future--but right now this is very simple: The Trump administration is trying to deport someone for speech they don't agree with. That is all

SCOOP—Emails obtained by Zeteo show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home." zeteo.com/p/scoop-emails…

The Spring issue is here! David Velasco interviews sarah schulman, essays & reviews by Lidija Haas, Moira Donegan, Audrey Wollen, Harmony Holiday, @CharoShane, Sasha Frere-Jones, Hannah Black, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, and more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3104

In today’s new episode of Selected Novels, @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine talk to Jessi Jezewska Stevens about “The Magic Mountain,” its influence on her own fiction, and why novels of ideas are life-affirming: buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…

“There is a deep sincerity to this book,” Jessi Jezewska Stevens says of “The Magic Mountain” in the latest episode of Selected Novels. “There is a kind of warmth in the commitment to its questioning, in the commitment to its ambition to dramatize all of life.” thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…

Hans Castrop forever ~

Excellent opening statement from the new pope

OUT NOW: ISSUE 363! Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Yiyun Li’s new memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow”; Andrew Chan on Mikio Naruse Japan Society Film; Ania Szremski on “Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe” Museum of Arts and Design; and Mark Dery on “Is a River Alive?” by Robert Macfarlane 4columns.org

“The unique value of this memoir is the invitation to reflect on how those of us outside the abyss treat others in the midst of great loss.”—Jessi Jezewska Stevens writes about Yiyun Li’s latest book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow” Farrar,Straus&Giroux 4columns.org/stevens-jessi-…

As the trans-Atlantic relationship sinks to new lows, the Eurovision slogan, “United by Music,” feels newly urgent for continental security, Jessi Jezewska Stevens writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/eur…

Solun mizah anlayışı, günümüz siyasetinde kılıcın iki yüzü gibi; hem keskin bir aydınlanma aracı hem de zamanla paslanarak zarar veren bir silah. Jessi Jezewska Stevens'ın kaleme aldığı yazı, ironinin sol düşüncede bir zamanlar direnç ve eleştiri kaynağı olduğunu, fakat

Congratulations again to all the good & righteous Mamdani canvassers who were out there like:

New rule you cannot run in a democratic primary unless you can walk the length of manhattan

Wrote about the GOAT debate in US fiction. (Link below.)