Be loud for America.
New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else). New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
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Be loud for America.
Fascinating new report from @thesentryorg.bsky.social on what happened when Mali invited the Wagner Group into the country to help fight terrorism. Short answer: nothing good. thesentry.org/reports/merc...
In the weird, terrible moment we're all experiencing of contested reality / distorted reality / unreality, I was heartened by this wonderful Zach Helfand piece about the brilliant, heroic fact checkers of @newyorker. May they save civilization.
Astrid has come out of hiding. When my piece about her ran, we had to negotiate to use the photo above, showing (very artfully, I thought) just her eye. Here, for the first time on the internet, is her face. nos.nl/artikel/2580...
Big update on this piece tonight...
The gargantuan Upper East Side residence of Arthur and Jillian Sackler just hit the market. When the Sacklers lived there, the 12,000 square-ft triplex had its own dedicated address --- 666 Park Avenue --- but someone decided it might be a good idea to rebrand as 660M ๐ nypost.com/2025/08/21/r...
I saw George Mitchell give a talk last night about the diplomatic effort to end the Troubles, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and he said something so sobering but obviously true: if social media had existed in the 90s the negotiators would never have been able to get an agreement.
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That's my plug for now. Much more next year. Can't wait for this one to be out in the world. Thank you. ๐
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UK:
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Pre-order links are now live. Here's the U.S.:
And here's the UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ cover, from @picadorbooks.bsky.social.
Here's the U.S. cover! From @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
But also in a broader sense about what it is about London today that would make a teenager aspire to be the son of a Russian oligarch.
It's about Zac Brettler, a London teenager who died in mysterious circumstances in 2019, and about his parents, who discovered after his death that he had been pretending to be the son of a Russian oligarch. It has turned out, in a weird way, to be a book about parenting, and about grief...
New book coming.
Found it! And my gloss was not far off. "The people who do that, they're not clowns."
Reminiscent of one of my favorite articles from years ago: "Mexican Clown Convention Condemns Cartel Assassins Who Dress Like Clowns: 'These People, They're Not Real Clowns.'"
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
This is very sad news. Pineapple Street was a real pioneer, a dominant force in what I guess in retrospect was the golden age of narrative podcasts. It was also, in my experience making Wind of Change, just a wonderful company full of decent, creatively brilliant people. variety.com/2025/digital...
Kind of sobering to realize we've crossed some invisible time threshold and now when you hear people generalize about "millennials" it's no longer old people complaining about young people but young people complaining about old people
Growing up, a lot of the romance I associated with journalism was tied to war reporting, of the Vietnam era but also the Balkans - dashing, flawed, passionate characters like this. โWhat was the point of being a journalist if you didnโt make hidden injustices visible?โ
I will always think of heat like this as Do the Right Thing weather
In Nantucket for the Book Fest, hundreds of people out raising their voices in the rain and going hard with the signs.
This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded: www.nokings.org#map
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. รztรผrk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks
Book publicity conundrum: at what point does your memoir receive so much advance coverage that by the time it is actually available to read people feel like they've already read it.
Baltimore's fledgling answer to the decline of independent American journalism -- the online non-profit daily known as the Baltimore Banner -- has just been awarded its first Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's overdose crisis. Subscribe now. Great cities have great metro dailies.
The New Yorker won three Pulitzer Prizesโthe most ever awarded to a magazine in a single yearโfor its journalism on the effects of war throughout the Middle East.
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What a wonderful surprise: SAY NOTHING just received a Peabody Award. I'm so proud of this series. If you haven't watched yet, it's on Hulu in the US and Disney+ everywhere else, please check it out!
Early contender for a defining image of this era.
This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.
Hope everyone with HBO sees these 2 new films- real life thrillers on how Dark Money took over America, setting the stage for Trump: news.wjct.org/2025-04-14/w...
Happy pub day to @michaelluo.bsky.social. STRANGERS IN THE LAND is a sweeping & meticulous account of the history of the Chinese in America, full of suggestive parallels to our present moment, as this terrific @steveinskeep.bsky.social review makes clear: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
Piper, NO!
Happy pub day to @forestissacj.bsky.social, whose new book GOOD TROUBLE tells the story of how the movement for Catholic civil rights in Northern Ireland was inspired and influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S. www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...
It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.
It seems weird to post good news in the midst of all this fresh hell but this was a nice surprise, and I'm so grateful to everyone who helped make Say Nothing. www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words โI lived it. I lived it. I lived it.โ Sheโs still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything weโve seen in this country in a very long time.
Some balls can spin by themselves
A good reminder for all you journalists out there: never underestimate the power of (sic)
You guys have to read the full article. This shit is insane.
Ah yes, I do love a tricky "ethical question"
Such a good conversation, thanks for having me!
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Will say, 'I have worn levis since I was 2' is pretty unbeatable.
new saddest six word story just dropped
This is a gratuitous parenting flex even for you, Seamas. Over here in America my kids aren't even precocious enough to locate the key to our gun safe.
...and journalist friends: you should follow @thesentryorg.bsky.social (they're not posting yet but presumably will in due course) for updates on their investigations, which I'm now conflicted out of writing about myself!
Congrats to my brilliant wife @justynapg.bsky.social who has just been named Executive Director of The Sentry, a fantastic organization dedicated to investigating and combating illicit finance, corruption and kleptocracy. thesentry.org/2025/03/03/8...
It feels like a metric of something, and not a good one, that at a moment like this virtually no one in the Oscar telecast has said anything remotely political
yes mine all basically boil down to "[name] is disappointed in you"
Grateful to the new iPhone OS for these helpful AI cliffnotes of all my sentence-long texts messages. I was really feeling overburdened there but tech to the rescue once again!
Writer prom. A great great night. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/s...
In Dublin last night, SAY NOTHING won 4 Irish Academy Awards. So wonderful to be there to celebrate with some of our wonderful cast and crew. I love 'em.
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
Hats off to @WIRED.com which is doing hugely valuable, dogged, deeply alarming reporting on the young coupsters of DOGE. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Not the only part of this worth scrutinizing but fentanyl has not killed "tens of millions of Americans."
Hey ChatGPT write an FT story about DeepSeek but in the style of the Onion
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social: Historical dramas let us have conversations about things still happening today www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
Surely you guys can get into the Capitol Building
Been thinking about this Icahn story lately. Ironically, Trump fired Icahn (and simultaneously Icahn quit) as we were closing my piece, because by 2017 standards I guess it counted as a grift too far. Can you imagine? By 2025 standards it looks almost quaint.
10 IFTA nominations for SAY NOTHING! We wanted the series to be a showcase for a lot of incredible Irish talent, both in front of and behind the camera, so this is thrilling. ๐๐
Iโm willing to bet that most of us pay more per month in underused streaming/cable fees than the cost of an annual magazine or newspaper subscription (eg $50 NY Mag). Subscribe more, read more, support what matters to you, stop whining about paywalls
Source: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social on new Malick bio www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Here's young Terence Malick just dicking around in his 20s my 20s were just like this too
Best Mustache is a tough category but ๐ค๐ค
Then you'd better tune in because that is mostly what I will be talking about
We all have our red lines
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Good morning good morning, this is TODAY at 12pm EST. Please join me for a conversation with my friend @clintsmithiii.bsky.social about SAY NOTHING and the process of translating the book into the TV series. @newamerica.org
Not to quibble but if I were Nicole Kidman in Babygirl the whole adventure would have ended abruptly the moment he ordered me to stop drinking so much espresso
Tintin cosplay
Woh, had never seen
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Really looking forward to this conversation with the great @clintsmithiii.bsky.social about translating SAY NOTHING to the screen. It's this Monday and fully virtual, so please join. You can register @newamerica.org via the link below. And if you haven't watched the series yet all 9 eps are on Hulu!
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At the very end of the year, one of the best pieces of the year, from the peerless Rachel Aviv. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I'm bringing the kids later this month
Going to laminate this and carry it in my wallet
It took me the longest time, reporting this book about London, to realize that when English people tell you "leave it with me" they don't actually mean "rest assured I will do you this favor, you don't even need to follow up because I am so ON IT." They mean "leave it with me ... to die."
Eric Adams giving big Dr Chilton vibes
Calvin Tomkins turned 99 this week and just published this fantastic long profile of Rashid Johnson. He's been writing for @newyorker.com since 1958. What an astonishing thing, to do what you love at such a high level for such a long time. I'd say it gives me hope but mainly it just gives me awe.
Thanks for reading!
With so many outlets scaling back or shutting down or making $15 million apology payments to the President of the United States, it's encouraging to see a new magazine - an actual paper MAGAZINE - as brash and beautiful and funny as The Fence. Subscribe! (Also my quote below is 100% true.)
Just kidding, it's quite amazing, all ~4 hours of it. More long movies should have intermissions. I am ready to discuss
I showed up for this screening of The Brutalist 3 days ago and as soon as the movie is over I'll let you know what I think.
If you or someone you know might have information that could help, it is possible to share tips anonymously with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains: www.iclvr.ie
Potentially significant break in the search for Columba McVeigh, another person disappeared during the early years of the Troubles whose body has never been recovered. "The republican said he was coming forward after appeals made over the disappeared in the wake of the Disney series Say Nothing."
Thanks so much, Andy.
Have you watched SAY NOTHING on FX/Hulu? I finished it last night and loved it. In 2019, I interviewed @praddenkeefe.bsky.social, whose book inspired the show, for @rollingstone.com. See below. Better yet, buy the book. It's a masterpiece. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
