Huge thanks, Hey Alma, for including Together in Manzanar on this list, and for saying "You won't be able to put this one down!" heyalma.com/27-jewish-book…

Today's takeaway: When u have a memor published about going thru IVF in ur 40s in a country where u don't speak the language & then u end up getting pregnant naturally & giving birth @ 46 & then 10 years pass & ur kiddo is home sick maybe don't leave xtra copies on the bookshelf.

Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship isn't the first time this constitutional right has been challenged. In 1898, Wong Kim Ark’s court case established that the 14th Amendment granted birthright citizenship to all born in the United States. encyclopedia.densho.org/United_States_…

Gary Gary Shteyngart fell in love with capybaras at least two decades before the current craze. Seeing one in the Prospect Park Zoo, he thought, “here was a being with a body as ridiculous as my own, and a sweetness that made me nostalgic for a past self.” nyer.cm/37kOqYX

The US has been roiled before by fake rumors of “danger from within,” from fellow citizens based on immigration status of their parents, or race, or lifestyle. Here’s the true story of one American family who lived through it—but almost didn’t. Preorder @ a.co/d/b56VZF5

By major fluke I was nominated for a Queerty award! You can vote for me every day until Feb 25th. This is the only way my gay twin will take what I seriously.

"God doesn’t put extra people in this world," Rabbi Mike Moskowitz said, a moving sentiment during a time when trans rights are under attack. buff.ly/3CP4FRI

A mother's quest to navigate forced choices between freedom & family, country & conscience, & even her own children. A true story of torn loyalties amid the fight against fascism & sweeping incarceration of US citizens based on race: Chicago Review Press - a.co/d/b56VZF5.

How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans lithub.com/how-trumps-ant… via Literary Hub

Join us on 7/15 for a conversation with Tracy Slater about her new book, Together in Manzanar, which tells the true story of labor and antifascist activists Elaine & Karl Yoneda as they navigate the painful choices and upheavals of WWII incarceration: densho.org/events/togethe…

Looking forward to this so much.

A fascinating and very thorough new book by Tracy Slater about the Manzanar concentration camp and a Japanese Jewish family who fought for better living conditions and against fascism. My review in today’s Asian Review of Books.

Together in Manzanar is the story of a California family interned in an American concentration camp during WWII. bit.ly/3Ia8vrc

"Anyone with even 'one drop' of Japanese blood." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Tracy Slater & Chicago Review Press! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

The latest from Judith Magazine, where I'm nonfiction editor. Together in Manzanar: In 1942, amid the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, author Tracy Slater recounts how a Jewish mother fought to stay with her son. judithmagazine.substack.com/p/together-in-…

A new op-ed about why the WWII US homeland camps for Japanese Americans were concentration camps—and why the Nazi camps were not. Thx to Jewish Book Council for the chance to make this case. jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/a-jew…

Thank you, Howard Lovy, for helping frame this piece for JUDITH mag and for working with me on it.

An absolute thrill to get to talk to Sacha Pfeiffer on NPR Morning Edition about the new book and some of the parallels between the history it reveals and the place where we find ourselves today. npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-…

At Judith Magazine, we ran an excerpt of Tracy Slater's book, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp." judithmagazine.substack.com/p/together-in-…