Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents on the latest episode of #NewYorkerRadio. swap.fm/l/tny-radioh...
Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street
Our new issue 47.16 is now online, featuring:
@tomstevenson.bsky.social in El Salvador
Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker
Seamus Perry on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce
Ruby Hamilton on David Lynch
and Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere.
Read online at lrb.co.uk
The New Yorker
Really excellent essay review by @embits.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk on the #manosphere and Andrew Tate. It makes very disturbing reading but it is important we all understand these phenomena.
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Los Angeles Times
Health and Safety is available as of today in chic and portable paperback. Thank you everyone for reading!
London Review of Books
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Spectacular reporting & heartbreaking writing by Emily Witt @newyorker.com
The People Being Disappeared by <em class="small">ICE</em> in Los Angeles www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Richard Hull
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
Came back to the city that raised me. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...
Emily Witt
R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne www.nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess...
Committee to Protect Journalists
Jorie Graham
A Times analysis found that 69% of those arrested during that period had no criminal conviction and 58% had never been charged with a crime.
As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.
www.newyorker.com
swap.fm
As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.
www.newyorker.com
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
Practical criticism, as the document explained, was invented by a Cambridge professor named I. A. Richards in the 1920s, when English literature was trying to gain space for itself in the university a...
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
