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Two years on, Ayad Akhtar's piece "The Singularity Is Here" resonates with an eerily prescient tone. 1/7 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

I'd be remiss if I neglected to recommend this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, which I read this year. A beautiful work and a great contribution to a vibrant genre. pulitzer.org/winners/mark-s…

In terms of contemporary fiction, I loved Ayad Akhtar’s “Homeland Elegies”, a semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional memoir about Muslim/immigrant identity in the U.S. and the collapse of the American Dream (including a riff on weak competition enforcement for antitrust nerds!)

In the second issue of "A Rich Life," @AbramVanEngen starts with Ayad Akhtar 's wonderful play "Junk" to explore limits around desire. Merkin's line, in particular, sticks with you... “When you don’t define your own limit, the limit comes to find you.” arichlife.substack.com/p/worth-the-wo…

Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut in September, starring in "McNeal," a new play written by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Bartlett Sher, and produced by LincolnCenterTheater. nytimes.com/2024/05/07/the…

NOW ON SALE! See Robert Downey Jr make his Broadway debut in MCNEAL at LCT! This strictly limited engagement begins September 5 at the Beaumont. Get official tickets at LCT.org and MCNEALbroadway.com #MCNEALbway

After receiving the #SVWC2024 Writer in the World Prize, Atwood will talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ayad Akhtar about her life, her work, and some of the many wonders and terrors of the world we are living in. Learn more: svwc.com/free.

The New Yorker Festival approaches! I'll be in conversation with Ayad Akhtar and Mohsin Hamid. Get your tickets here: nyer.cm/zCmbo30

I wrote a critical response to Ted Chiang’s New Yorker piece, which I hope will be taken as the heartfelt contribution of a comrade and not the ramblings of a pedant. Link in bio, etc.

Nanjing University Press has just published a collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, and I had the pleasure of translating Ayad Akhtar 's Disgraced. The book includes not just the title play but also another gem, Junk. Both are brilliant works!

Ayad Akhtar and Mohsin Hamid will talk with Parul Sehgal at this year's New Yorker Festival, October 27. festival.newyorker.com/event-details/…

Playwright Ayad Akhtar is back on Broadway for the third time. Learn how he created a complex story involving AI and discovered how it needed to be tethered to a presence like MCNEAL star Robert Downey Jr. bit.ly/4eJ2Jbq #theater #broadway #mcneal #robertdowneyjr

Robert Downey Jr. stars in “McNeal,” the gripping new play by Ayad Akhtar currently running at the Lincoln Center Theater, produced by Susan Downey. vogue.com/article/susan-…

Theater director Bartlett Sher on #generativeAI, in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic), playwright Ayad Akhtar, and Robert Downey Jr. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Robert Downey Jr., Ayad Akhtar, and Bartlett Sher recently sat down to talk about all things #McNEALBway on the recent episode of On with Kara Swisher Listen to the interview, then get your tickets - McNEAL is now playing through November 24 only! open.spotify.com/episode/5EVu4m…

“I’ve gone from feeling like it was an apocalypse in the making, to feeling like it’s an inevitability where our participation as creative writers is going to be central,” says playwright Ayad Akhtar on AI in the arts. Read more about McNEAL in the The New York Times today! #McNEALBway

It is thrilling when a brilliant artist takes a big swing at a timely and existential subject. This extraordinary play by Ayad Akhtar on art and AI and our unsettling times was riveting to see on stage and is equally so on the page. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Ayad Akhtar’s “McNeal” “asks some of the most essential and urgent questions of our time, and it does so in a way that brilliantly fits form to function.” Read the play in full, with a foreword by Jeremy Strong: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

After its world premiere run this fall LincolnCenterTheater Ayad Akhtar’s “McNeal” debuts in German (trans. Daniel Kehlmann) at Vienna’s Burgtheater in March, starring the incomparable Joachim Meyerhoff in the role originated by Robert Downey Jr. Jan Bosse directs. burgtheater.at/produktionen/d…