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i am going to become The Power Broker

delighted to learn yet again today for the ten thousandth time that Thomas Pynchon's middle name is indeed "RUGGLES"

I reviewed "Open, Heaven" nytimes.com/2025/04/16/boo…

my prediction was "someone will be violently murdered" and that was correct

It took management five months to tell us they’re offering NO increase to our salary floor. Meanwhile, the cost of living in NYC is higher than ever. We deserve livable wages so we can afford to keep making the magazine we love. Please support our fight for a fair contract!

What to say? Simply an unmatched issue of Harper's Magazine—John Jeremiah Sullivan on Twain, Harmony Holiday on Baldwin, Knausgaard on computers, pieces on the UN and a harrowing killing in Kentucky—to remind you why the hell we're 175 years old. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"How could I have been living under the illusion that I was the one in touch with nature, with human nature, when in fact I was just messing around with signs and abstractions?" Karl Ove Knausgaard for Harper's Magazine: harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

the best colleague and friend anyone could ask for. it won't be the same!

One of my last Harper's Magazine pieces was an honor to edit: *Lewis Hyde* on Darwin, butterflies, deep time, and our temporal relationship to climate change: harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

I wrote about Harry Crews for my favorite magazine in the world harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

For the July issue, I took my first seat in the Harper's Magazine Easy Chair, with a piece on social Darwinism and the America that produced Trump harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Sailing this into the void one more time: I went long on Harry Crews for Harper's Magazine. I think the piece is sort of about the confrontation between "two conceptions of a life," the one that's lived and the one that's narrated. I hope you enjoy it harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

realclearbooks.com Monday reads: Charlie Lee for Harper's Magazine, Derek Neal for his S*bstack, BDM for The Point Magazine, David Polansky for his S*bstack, ella fox-martens 🛸 for her S*bstack, Michael Goodwin Hilton for The Metropolitan Review, and many others.

“It’s an idea that Crews, the author of fifteen novels and countless pieces of long-form journalism, often returned to: there is the life that is lived, and then its rival, a counterlife, where every flaw is hidden and one can feel whole.”—Charlie Lee harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"Writing, Crews seemed to believe, was a thread through the maze, a means of imagining a place and a people to whom he could lay claim." Charlie Lee on Harry Crews’s counterlives. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Friends, I have made a S*bst*ck. First post is up now, explaining my title and what kind of stuff I'll be doing. I'll hope you'll read, subscribe, and share. Link below, obv.