The Drake Motel
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I have no opinion about this, and I have no opinion about that
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“My father started to feel like a ghost. The distance wasn’t just physical. It felt as if I was losing the man who raised me.”
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“My father started to feel like a ghost. The distance wasn’t just physical. It felt as if I was losing the man who raised me.”
Delighted to bring you: @fucktheory.bsky.social on the Broadway Godot: "Beckett with emotional subtitles"
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me | FT
In Samuel Beckett’s work, everything is on the surface. Nothing is hidden, encoded, or allegorized. No truth lies inside or behind; there is no secret to
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November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Delighted to bring you: @fucktheory.bsky.social on the Broadway Godot: "Beckett with emotional subtitles"
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FT (@fucktheory.bsky.social) on Bill & Ted’s Beckett adventure
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me | FT
In Samuel Beckett’s work, everything is on the surface. Nothing is hidden, encoded, or allegorized. No truth lies inside or behind; there is no secret to
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November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
FT (@fucktheory.bsky.social) on Bill & Ted’s Beckett adventure
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new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared - Chicago Reader
The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks wh...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.
via @katieprout.bsky.social
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Dan Chiasson on Zohran, Bernie, socialism, biryani, and the DSA
‘Have You Met Z?’ | Dan Chiasson
It was almost weird to walk around New York City and not run into him. “Z was in just yesterday,” the barista at Little Flower in Astoria told me,
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November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Dan Chiasson on Zohran, Bernie, socialism, biryani, and the DSA
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Wallace Shawn shares some interesting insights in this interview about his political evolution and why he moved further to the left in his 40s.
Israel-Palestine Really Isn't That Complicated
The renowned actor, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter Wallace Shawn discusses his political evolution leftward, his activism on Israel-Palestine, and why that issue really isn't that complicated.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wallace Shawn shares some interesting insights in this interview about his political evolution and why he moved further to the left in his 40s.
As you mourn the downsizing of another magazine, and the layoffs that come with it, ask yourself: have i ever sniffily shared an archive.is link to an article to "help" people get around the paywall?
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
As you mourn the downsizing of another magazine, and the layoffs that come with it, ask yourself: have i ever sniffily shared an archive.is link to an article to "help" people get around the paywall?
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“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people in Chicago.” —Duncan Hosie
Worse than Nothing | Duncan Hosie, Lesly Ramirez Melchor
“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people…
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November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people in Chicago.” —Duncan Hosie
This Sunday, come to the Brooklyn Book Fest and watch me bother @andrealongchu.bsky.social, @jeremygordon.bsky.social, and Sarah Chihaya about criticism
The Fiction Impulse in Nonfiction Criticism - Brooklyn Book Festival
Three literary critics consider the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, literature and criticism. While Sarah Chihaya (Bibliophobia), Andrea Long Chu (Authority), and Jeremy Gordon (See Friendshi...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This Sunday, come to the Brooklyn Book Fest and watch me bother @andrealongchu.bsky.social, @jeremygordon.bsky.social, and Sarah Chihaya about criticism
I interviewed Walter Shaub about the mechanics of Trump's takeover of the civil service
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Situation Normal | Walter M. Shaub Jr., Daniel Drake
The Trump administration’s clear-cutting of the civil service has been accompanied by an effort to undermine the agencies tasked with ensuring ethical
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September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I interviewed Walter Shaub about the mechanics of Trump's takeover of the civil service
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For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory
Short version first:
I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over
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September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
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“What makes trees easier to photograph than people is that trees are endlessly patient and have not an ounce of vanity.” —Benjamin Swett, interviewed by Daniel Drake
The Forest and the Trees | Benjamin Swett, Daniel Drake
“What makes trees easier to photograph than people is that trees are endlessly patient and have not an ounce of vanity.”
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August 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“What makes trees easier to photograph than people is that trees are endlessly patient and have not an ounce of vanity.” —Benjamin Swett, interviewed by Daniel Drake
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“Trust your instincts as a reporter. Take risks, do cool projects, have fun. Don’t be a chore to read.” —@maxrn.bsky.social, interviewed by @drakemotel.bsky.social
The New York World | Max Rivlin-Nadler, Daniel Drake
The weekend before the thirty-three-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani stunned Andrew Cuomo and the city of New York by winning a decisive victory in the
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July 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Trust your instincts as a reporter. Take risks, do cool projects, have fun. Don’t be a chore to read.” —@maxrn.bsky.social, interviewed by @drakemotel.bsky.social
Big night in Chicago
May 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Big night in Chicago
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wrote about ocean www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
The Romance of Being Unreadable
In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
wrote about ocean www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
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Nawal Arjini and Willa Glickman on Eric Adams’s lessons from Trumpism
The President of Brooklyn | Nawal Arjini, Willa Glickman
It has been the curse of many New York City mayors to see themselves as viable presidential candidates, indeed with one foot already in the White House.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Nawal Arjini and Willa Glickman on Eric Adams’s lessons from Trumpism
This week I interviewed @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social about what would constitute a constitutional crisis
A Constitutional Redline | David Cole, Daniel Drake
This week the NYR Online published an open letter signed by eighteen constitutional scholars from across the ideological spectrum that argued that the
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March 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This week I interviewed @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social about what would constitute a constitutional crisis
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“I wonder if nonfiction somehow taps into my (otherwise largely suppressed) competitive instincts. I never feel competitive when I’m writing fiction.” —Sally Rooney, interviewed by Daniel Drake
Brass in Pocket | Sally Rooney, Daniel Drake
“If you wanted to calculate the trajectory of a cue ball coming off an object ball and then a cushion using Newtonian physics, you’d need an accurate
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March 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“I wonder if nonfiction somehow taps into my (otherwise largely suppressed) competitive instincts. I never feel competitive when I’m writing fiction.” —Sally Rooney, interviewed by Daniel Drake
I interviewed Sally Rooney about snooker, sportswriting, and the far right in Ireland; but also don't you love the headline
Brass in Pocket | Sally Rooney, Daniel Drake
“If you wanted to calculate the trajectory of a cue ball coming off an object ball and then a cushion using Newtonian physics, you’d need an accurate
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March 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I interviewed Sally Rooney about snooker, sportswriting, and the far right in Ireland; but also don't you love the headline
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Nadia Abu El-Haj on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’ | Nadia Abu El-Haj
Mahmoud Khalil has been a public face of the pro-Palestine student movement at Columbia University and Barnard College since last spring. I have known him
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March 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Nadia Abu El-Haj on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
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February 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The free market does afford readers the opportunity to choose to subscribe to a publication that is not constrained from expressing an array of ideas about economics. subscribe.nybooks.com/ecom/nyb/app...
I think my old essay about Trump's tweets and the Democrats' nerdy insistence on "correcting" them may still be relevant
February 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think my old essay about Trump's tweets and the Democrats' nerdy insistence on "correcting" them may still be relevant
"Let’s not forget: Republicans can’t govern, they’re unpopular, and they’re led by the most idiotic president in living memory. They are beatable."
Authoritarian Blitz | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
In the weeks since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the president and his party have embarked on a concerted campaign to unmake the American
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February 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Let’s not forget: Republicans can’t govern, they’re unpopular, and they’re led by the most idiotic president in living memory. They are beatable."
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It truly does need to be emphasized that for all their power and all their evil, we are not fighting supervillains. We are fighting misshapen, weak, cowardly little men who are fundamentally useless and incompetent.
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It truly does need to be emphasized that for all their power and all their evil, we are not fighting supervillains. We are fighting misshapen, weak, cowardly little men who are fundamentally useless and incompetent.