A Spanish billionaire plunged off a cliff to his death on a hike with his son. Was it a tragic accident?
I went to Barcelona for @nymag.com to report on the fascinating life and mysterious death of Isak Andic, the Turkish-born founder of the fashion brand Mango
www.thecut.com/article/isak...
“Curzio Malaparte’s fundamental focus was on the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, but he was also a witness to the ends of eras, and in his lifetime he experienced many.” —@racheldonadio.bsky.social
My latest — on Malaparte in @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
“Curzio Malaparte was a journalist at heart who needed to witness the outside world, larger political developments, and front lines,” @racheldonadio.bsky.social writes. “[He] had a light touch in a dark time.”
“Curzio Malaparte’s fundamental focus was on the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, but he was also a witness to the ends of eras, and in his lifetime he experienced many.” —@racheldonadio.bsky.social
🇮🇹⚡Malaparte argues that in the seizure of power, ideology only goes so far, and if a handful of skilled operatives manage to commandeer the mechanisms of the state—infrastructure, communications—a leader can take control without mass support or even favorable circumstances...
John! You’ve done great work. I’m so sorry and upset that it came to this. Bon courage to you and your colleagues.
among the MAGA faithful at the conclave @nymag.com @racheldonadio.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
I was honored to lead the @nytimes.com coverage of the 2013 conclave in which Pope Francis was elected. A while back I looked back on my experience as a Vatican correspondent, a combination of palace intrigue, political campaign and intellectual history on deadline!
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
End of an era. RIP Pope Francis, always full of surprises — including his ascent to the papacy. In another lifetime, I led @nytimes.com coverage of the conclave in which he was elected.
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
Un journaliste de « The Atlantic » accède à des informations ultraconfidentielles de l’administration Trump après avoir été invité par erreur dans une conversation Signal
Earth’s celestial neighbors will be present at dusk this week. Here’s how to spot all seven planets.
Flagging @alecmac.bsky.social 's excellent August 2024 @propublica.org piece on Project 2025 and Paul Dans, who assembled a database of 10,000+ names — "candidates vetted for loyalty to Trump’s cause ... ready to deploy into federal agencies should he win..."
www.propublica.org/article/proj...
"It’s a fable about the end of an ideal of 🇺🇸 unity and optimism. About the failure of goodness... less in the history of biopics about genius than in a tradition of stories abt communities that turn bad"
-Timothy Hampton, author of BOB DYLAN: HOW THE SONGS WORK
press.princeton.edu/ideas/once-u...
Wed. Jan. 29 at 19h30 we are delighted to have the marvelous writer Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Donatien Grau of the Louvre. Sign up live or on Zoom!
Beautiful new translations of EASTBOUND & CANOES are out from Archipelago Books in the U.S.
americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dekera...
Bad humor is eternal. From the year 70 CE:
“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,”
digventures.com/2019/07/roma...
🇫🇷📚 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse.
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
It was a bit jarring to see a rather similar piece in today's @nytimestravel.bsky.social ! But I'm always glad for more shout-outs to Brodsky and his indelible WATERMARK.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/t...
is my 2010 essay VENICE IN WINTER, inspired by Joseph Brodsky's "Watermark" @nytimestravel.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/t...
Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of conserving the death camp. @nytimesarts.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/a...
🇫🇷📚 Loved talking to Rachel Kushner at the American Library in Paris about her latest novel, CREATION LAKE, about Neanderthals, eco-anarchists, undercover agents, French politics, leftist idealism, how the ancient past insinuates itself into the present.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHR...
🇫🇷 Ten years ago this week, terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo and France began an annus horribilus. Today those scars have become part of Paris' cityscape.
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
🇫🇷 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse. 🇫🇷
My latest for @nybooks
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
🇫🇷 Closing out the year with one more for @nybooks.com — on Paris, city of revolutions past and perhaps future, city of rich and poor, city of attacks and survivors.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
🇫🇷 The first Mass in a gorgeously restored Notre Dame is underway this morning. For more on church and state in France, here's my Laïcité deep dive for @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
