Lauren Markham
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere
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Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
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@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
Subscribe now and get 15% off: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
Subscribe now and get 15% off: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
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We’re celebrating 40 years of publishing and supporting our literary community with our good friends @litquake.org + Mechanics’ Institute + Daniel Handler + @laurenmarkham.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
October 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We’re celebrating 40 years of publishing and supporting our literary community with our good friends @litquake.org + Mechanics’ Institute + Daniel Handler + @laurenmarkham.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry
Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
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The second issue of The Approach, a new print-only newspaper full of heavy-hitting Bay Area bylines, is out today.
Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:
Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:
A bold approach
Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights
sf.gazetteer.co
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The second issue of The Approach, a new print-only newspaper full of heavy-hitting Bay Area bylines, is out today.
Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:
Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:
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"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future."
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
Edge of Paradise | Broadcast
In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.
pioneerworks.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future."
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
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I’ve had the opportunity to interview fabulous executives, nonprofit leaders, and writers over the years. I’m always impressed when @billmckibben.bsky.social speaks about our fragile earth and solar energy. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social did an excellent job moderating tonight’s talk in #SanFrancisco!
September 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I’ve had the opportunity to interview fabulous executives, nonprofit leaders, and writers over the years. I’m always impressed when @billmckibben.bsky.social speaks about our fragile earth and solar energy. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social did an excellent job moderating tonight’s talk in #SanFrancisco!
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Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...
ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers
Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location.
theintercept.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...
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This is part of the greater war on education and expertise that’s ongoing. A professional class of law enforcement is anathema to the people in power who want blunt weapons with which to beat the undesirables, not people who can think, and question, and refuse.
Apart from firearms, the part of training we spent the most time on (if I am recalling correctly) was legal instruction. Now the FBI is hiring people with no college degree and slashing training time in half (reducing academics, guessing ethics also). Absolute disaster www.nysun.com/article/fbi-...
August 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is part of the greater war on education and expertise that’s ongoing. A professional class of law enforcement is anathema to the people in power who want blunt weapons with which to beat the undesirables, not people who can think, and question, and refuse.
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Michael sits down with journalist @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to unpack her fascinating piece in The Guardian on Italian towns offering homes for €1. Are Americans falling for a fantasy, or is the life swap dream real?
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw
July 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Michael sits down with journalist @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to unpack her fascinating piece in The Guardian on Italian towns offering homes for €1. Are Americans falling for a fantasy, or is the life swap dream real?
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw
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“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.”
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene
“This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...
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July 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.”
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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New Tool: Detention Reports Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities
Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...
Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...
New Tool: DetentionReports.com Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities
Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool providing real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.
austinkocher.substack.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New Tool: Detention Reports Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities
Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...
Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...
A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡
July 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡
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Olive farmers are noticing the effects climate change is having on their harvest, and many foresee a struggling future.
Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops.
Story for @bloomberg.com.
👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ
Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops.
Story for @bloomberg.com.
👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Olive farmers are noticing the effects climate change is having on their harvest, and many foresee a struggling future.
Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops.
Story for @bloomberg.com.
👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ
Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops.
Story for @bloomberg.com.
👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ
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Robyn, our indefatigable production editor, is loving IMMEMORIAL by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and published by @transitbooks.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Robyn, our indefatigable production editor, is loving IMMEMORIAL by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and published by @transitbooks.bsky.social
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@jennitaur.bsky.social and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social's discussion of "Immemorial," recently published by @transitbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
@jennitaur.bsky.social and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social's discussion of "Immemorial," recently published by @transitbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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I've been an immigration reporter for a long time. I've never seen communications from DHS appear quite this unhinged, unprofessional, and just wholly unconcerned with seeming legitimate.
April 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I've been an immigration reporter for a long time. I've never seen communications from DHS appear quite this unhinged, unprofessional, and just wholly unconcerned with seeming legitimate.
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
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"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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"Do you ever have experiences, though, where you're like, 'am I just a high idiot thinking all of this is connected?" @laurenmarkham.bsky.social speaks with @jennitaur.bsky.social about people, books, and places as inspiration for "Immemorial." lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
April 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Do you ever have experiences, though, where you're like, 'am I just a high idiot thinking all of this is connected?" @laurenmarkham.bsky.social speaks with @jennitaur.bsky.social about people, books, and places as inspiration for "Immemorial." lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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The weird, vague grammar of “you won’t have a country anymore.” Its deliberately awkward phrasing makes response impossible. What does it mean to “have” a country? If one doesn’t have it, where does it go?
April 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The weird, vague grammar of “you won’t have a country anymore.” Its deliberately awkward phrasing makes response impossible. What does it mean to “have” a country? If one doesn’t have it, where does it go?
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If you are or you know a USCIS officer at the Vermont Service Center, pls contact me on signal at tanvim.05. I've been covering immigration for 10 years, did it under Trump 1.0, and have a track record of protecting my sources' identities.
April 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you are or you know a USCIS officer at the Vermont Service Center, pls contact me on signal at tanvim.05. I've been covering immigration for 10 years, did it under Trump 1.0, and have a track record of protecting my sources' identities.
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The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.
El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.
It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.
El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.
It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.
Pam Bondi: “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him…If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.”
Nayib Bukele: “How can I return him to the U.S.? Like, I smuggle him into the U.S.?”
No, you put him on the plane the AG just said the US would provide!
Nayib Bukele: “How can I return him to the U.S.? Like, I smuggle him into the U.S.?”
No, you put him on the plane the AG just said the US would provide!
April 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.
El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.
It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.
El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.
It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.
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this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA.
Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA.
Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out
www.science.org/content/arti...
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An hour from Gaza, Israelis sip coffee as genocide rages - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hour-gaza-israelis-sip-coffee-genocide-rages
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<p>One of the oldest cities in the world, Jaffa - Yafa in Arabic - was once a flourishing Palestinian metropolis on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, with its own cultural life, newspapers, publishing houses, cinemas and theatres.</p>
<p>Today, however, it has been reduced to a suburb of Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>Israeli Jews live in gated communities while Palestinians are pushed out by prices that only affluent Ashkenazis can afford. Anywhere else, this would be called gentrification, but in Israel, this population transfer has an ethnic flavour.</p>
<p>The coffee shop I'm in is teeming with customers. It's just another day in the busy life of secular Israel. A woman near me sips her coffee while holding a yoga mat. A couple nearby are discussing a play they saw the day before at a theatre. They're also planning their Passover dinner, as the holiday is fast approaching.</p>
<p>This could be a scene out of any western capital. But here, the ordinary unfolds just an hour's drive away from Gaza, where the unimaginable has become routine.</p>
<p>At this point, I glance at my iPhone. Every morning for more than 18 months, Ahmed has been messaging me from Khan Younis.</p>
<p>"Tonight, 19 people were killed in the bombing of tents and homes here. I have done three interviews and collected photos and video material," Ahmed writes. "Are you interested?" he asks, his question carrying a desperate poignancy."</p>
<p>Read more:<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/hour-gaza-israelis-sip-coffee-genocide-rages"> An hour from Gaza, Israelis sip coffee as genocide rages</a></p>
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April 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An hour from Gaza, Israelis sip coffee as genocide rages - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hour-gaza-israelis-sip-coffee-genocide-rages
"I'm free. I'm free forever!" this was the voice memo I woke up to the other day from Hassan, one of the Moria 6, accused and convicted with zero credible evidence for burning down the Moria refugee camp in Greece.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Moria refugee camp fire: Three migrants acquitted
The huge fire at the overcrowded camp left some 13,000 people without shelter on the island of Lesbos and sparked a humanitarian crisis.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"I'm free. I'm free forever!" this was the voice memo I woke up to the other day from Hassan, one of the Moria 6, accused and convicted with zero credible evidence for burning down the Moria refugee camp in Greece.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...