Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Measles is NOT "just like chickenpox". It can kill years later. This woman was so brave for coming forward with her story.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

If I were directing riz Ahmed and Joe alwyn in hamlet I’d throw in a scene where hamlet and laertes make out a little

Resist Assuming Her Life Is Like Her Books

“I cannot imagine anything more ignominious than watching ‘Hamnet’.”

The Hardy Men | Daniel Lefferts In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a

"Passage is making an ambitious statement: these novels of adventurous, upstanding boy-heroes are not only quintessentially American but fundamentally right-wing."

fun piece on the HARDY BOYS

this looks incredible. congratulations!

Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

An archaic torso of Apollo moment. I must change my life

I was yelling at someone about Helen Dewitt and they didn’t know what I was talking about and I was like right… normal people don’t care about this and neither should I

ive never been that good at it but i've really just stopped answering my email? if it matters they'll FIND you and it turns out it almost never matters

BOMB's spring issue and BRAWLER by Lauren Groff.

"Failure is a beautiful thing. When you write, the joy is in coming up against what you can’t do. And then you and the work have to be reconciled together."

— @legroff.bsky.social speaking with @rumaan.bsky.social in the spring issue of
@bombmag.bsky.social

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I’ve been trying to decide what it reminds me of and I think it’s when Dick Cheney was charged with finding a vp for bush and he found… himself

Why Is Anna Wintour on the Cover of Vogue for ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’? Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep appear together on Vogue's cover — a strange way to promote a movie franchise that started by satirizing Wintour

Anna Wintour on the cover of Vogue is so stupid and lame. It feels very firmly like the end of an era. She should retire, what a joke

Trying to foment a Sinclair Lewis renaissance but it’s not sticking

It either happened or it simply *might* have

Oh this is a good idea

i think it happened in the summer. and i think it was actually not outside of my house, upon reflection. the car had maroon velvet upholstery. I think you were meant to take your shoes off and put them in the sand? why i remember any of this after three decades is beyond me

if i were able to remember useful things the way i remember useless things i would be unstoppable! alas here i am, quite stoppable

anyway i love art students. long live art students, of all varieties of handsomeness

i wonder whether anyone else from oberlin in this period could verify that this happened and wasn't something i made up. it sounds kind of made up

today i remembered, with astonishing clarity, that when i was in college an extremely handsome art student built an installation outside of my house. he reupholstered the interior of an old car and filled the interior with sand. you sat inside and watched a film being projected. he was VERY handsome

The World Is an Easier Place Without You In It by Karen Shepard March 16, 2026 – A mother-daughter story in documents.

It was like a lighthouse: sometimes she could see herself with real clarity, and then the light would swing away, and she was unable to do so anymore.

i cant tell if i'm just less curious as i get older or if discovery is just baffling to me now but how does one know about anything anymore? anyway if i listen to vespertine one more time i'm gonna KMS

i find myself in crisis, in need of music to listen to while writing a book, in need of a playlist someone else has made for me, but as far as i understand it the only person who would ever do such a thing is a college boyfriend, so in short i am in need of a college boyfriend

I’ve been thinking about this since you said it. Turning everything into a room. It seems very astute, I’m gonna steal it

Current Enthusiasms #31: rooms and paintings of rooms Earnest recommendations.

for my newsletter, the only thing i care about writing any more, i wrote about realizing that edouard vuillard is one of my favorite artists

The Transit of Venus (upsetting), The Makioka Sisters (hilarious), The Magic Mountain (tragic), Loved and Missed (shouldn’t work but works), Underworld (perfect)

If I had a two phone job I’d get a handsome naval officer to carry one around for me like the nuclear codes that’s how it’s done, two phone guys

When men have two cellphones… very unsexy… what’s ur job bb looking at your two phones? Fun

The Family That Wallpapers Together The novelist Rumaan Alam and the photographer David Land, with their two sons, downsized to a three-bedroom in Fort Greene where wild and chintzy wallpaper plays a starring role—everywhere.

The novelist Rumaan Alam and the photographer David Land, with their two sons, downsized to a three-bedroom in Fort Greene where wild and chintzy wallpaper plays a starring role—everywhere.

My child just said “I hate working but I love money”… he’s only 13 but truly an adult now