The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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Just saw this. It was a very good lunch. 🫶

Honored to celebrate Yale Class 2026 news.yale.edu/2026/03/30/a...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers.

Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

The Service95 team asked me to write about how amazing Roxane is (easy assignment) and I told them I’d do it for an autographed vinyl. www.service95.com/ashley-c-for...

Will try to get there soon. Thank you. Jihan is the greatest.

Yep. Co-sign.

A gimbap roll, seaweed wrapped around rice and Korean banchan veggies, egg, and beef bulgogi

Huge food tip for NYC: one of best sushi spots of past decade is Nami Nori (@minjinlee.bsky.social will back me up) & their chef Jihan soft opened a gimbap to go place next door this weekend. Insanely good, paid $12 for one of biggest, best bulgogi rolls I’ve ever eaten. www.instagram.com/tbdgimbap

Honored. My goodness. Thank you.

Min Jin Lee speaking from a podium at Emory University on March 1, 2026

yesterday I got to hear from my favorite living author @minjinlee.bsky.social, who was brilliant, funny, and spellbinding. I've never read a novelist who gives life so beautifully and fully to ordinary people history has forgotten.

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Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters.

Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.

Here's what The Rumpus will be up to at AWP 2026! therumpus.net/2026/02/27/t... And we're having a soiree!

I can SMELL this book cover. @minjinlee.bsky.social (American Hagwon) coming out in September 2026.

Thank you for moderating, Audrey. You were terrific. Xo

New Order?

Listening to old college mixtapes that I had converted into playlists. Lots of Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Cure, Kate Bush, OMD, and Roxy Music. Inspired after moderating the most Gen X panel Ever. @americanbookseller.bsky.social @minjinlee.bsky.social @colsonwhitehead.com #ABAWinterInstitute

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Min’s new novel is spectacular!
Book critics: contact Cordelia Calvert and me for review copy/interview requests:

cordelia dot calvert at hbgusa dot com
michael at broadsidepr dot com

@minjinlee.bsky.social @reaganart.bsky.social

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A white book with black text on a wooden book stand, a finger poised to open it at the right lower corner. Text reads NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PACHINKO MIN JIN LEE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST COVER TO COME NOT FOR SALE AMERICAN HAGWON A NOVEL

Welcome to this thrilling new novel by an old friend (I’m already reading it).

The artists stand backstage in front of a pink background, smiling.

Earlier this week, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Thanks to @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Colm Tóibín, and Jay O. Sanders for an enlightening evening, and to everyone who joined us!
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I’m thinking of you, Ron. ❤️

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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Nine book covers, including "Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano; "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles; "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner; "The Martian" by Andy Weir; "The Book of Longings" by Sue Monk Kidd; "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; "Circe" by Madeline Miller; "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee; and "Sipsworth" by Simon Van Booy

GREAT reading month in January--maybe needing an escape from our current hellscape. Of the 15 books I read, these were the 9 five-star reads. Huge thanks to @annnapolitano.bsky.social @minjinlee.bsky.social @madelinemiller.bsky.social and the other authors for their beautiful work #booksky

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My 🐐 is back