STRANGE BUILDINGS is a New York Times bestseller! #11 on the Paperback Fiction list 🎉
Allison Markin Powell recounts the experience of translating and publishing the work of Kanako Nishi.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN
This is horrible. The WaPo's Books section has a brilliant band of critics and editors and has developed a genuine identity in the book world. I'm heartbroken for a staff that has done such consistently great and dedicated work.
now that it’s Publishers Weekly official: I’ve been promoted to Senior Publicist at the HarperOne Group! ✨
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
We have to impeach him.
Violet and I chose these 48 books as our top feminist reads of the year for @msmagazine.com!
Feat @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @annanorth.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social & more
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in an ideal world I wouldn’t be starting the last year of my 20s with a fractured foot, but of course that would happen in this timeline. despite it all I had a very nice birthday yesterday 🙂↕️ (ft. my dog wearing her booties for the first time this season)
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
In 2025, we recommend 1,069 books. These are the 10 that rose to the very top. @berkleypub.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @delreybooks.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social @randomhouse.bsky.social bookpage.com/best-books
Happy ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME day! Let's stay here forever 💙
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Zohran Mamdani will become the next mayor of New York City. (NBC News)
went to vote early for the Halloween sticker. Got it AND a temporary tattoo version of the sticker. I love New York City
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!
✨ I curated an event in honor of a new Octavia Butler biography w/ author Susana M. Morris and Ibi Zoboi on 09/30 at the Center for Bklyn History at 6:30 pm.
There will be convo AND stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association! ✨
RSVP here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
@ninawest.bsky.social on literature, the necessity of Drag Queen Story Hour, and why reading is fundamental.
National epics aren't written so often these days, but Georgian author Nino Haratischwili has made them her stock-in-trade. This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with her big, operatic, immersive latest, 'The Lack of Light,' a story of friendship in a broken country. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
