Michael Luo
@michaelluo.bsky.social
New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
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Michael Luo
@michaelluo.bsky.social
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Now on sale! “This is not just the story of the Chinese in America; it’s the story of any number of immigrant groups who have been treated as strangers. It’s the story of our diverse democracy. It’s the story of us.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704981...
Antonia Hitchens is out with a deep, insightful profile of Laura Loomer. Trump, she insisted, is the only “other person on this planet who I think can actually empathize with me and who I can actually empathize with. I really do believe that.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Antonia Hitchens is out with a deep, insightful profile of Laura Loomer. Trump, she insisted, is the only “other person on this planet who I think can actually empathize with me and who I can actually empathize with. I really do believe that.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Before New York voters go to the ballot box, they’re sitting on their therapist’s couch—where they’re unpacking their Mamdani-induced fears and their Cuomo-fuelled stress. Or, as usual, they’re talking about Trump.
The N.Y.C. Mayoral Election, as Processed in Therapy
Before voters go to the ballot box, they’re sitting on their therapist’s couch—where they’re unpacking their Mamdani-induced fears and their Cuomo-fuelled stress. Or, as usual, they’re talking about T...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Before New York voters go to the ballot box, they’re sitting on their therapist’s couch—where they’re unpacking their Mamdani-induced fears and their Cuomo-fuelled stress. Or, as usual, they’re talking about Trump.
Introducing Shuffalo! @newyorker.com's new word game. Incredibly fun. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Introducing Shuffalo, Our New Word Game
A daily anagramming challenge with a twist.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Introducing Shuffalo! @newyorker.com's new word game. Incredibly fun. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Beautiful essay by Patti Smith, drawn from her forthcoming book, Bread of Angels. Cameos by Robert Mapplethorpe, Bob Dylan, and Sam Shepard. "...if you miss a beat, invent another."
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Essay by Patti Smith: Art Rats in New York City
Finding my own words.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Beautiful essay by Patti Smith, drawn from her forthcoming book, Bread of Angels. Cameos by Robert Mapplethorpe, Bob Dylan, and Sam Shepard. "...if you miss a beat, invent another."
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"The shock that images of the destruction provoke..is not an overreaction to the loss of a beloved building. It is a recognition of something deeper: the central values of democracy being demolished before our eyes. Now we do not only sense it. We see it." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The shock that images of the destruction provoke..is not an overreaction to the loss of a beloved building. It is a recognition of something deeper: the central values of democracy being demolished before our eyes. Now we do not only sense it. We see it." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This is a really urgent, wrenching read by Clay Dalton, a physician-writer for @newyorker.com, looking at the short and long-term after-effects of starvation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Comes After Starvation in Gaza?
For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is a really urgent, wrenching read by Clay Dalton, a physician-writer for @newyorker.com, looking at the short and long-term after-effects of starvation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
In his column this week, Jay Kang asks: "how do you build a community when nobody can hold any vision, or even interpretation, of what happened in common?" www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
How Will Americans Remember the War in Gaza?
In the twentieth century, we relied on the news media to select images and provide context. Now fewer and fewer of us are seeing the same things.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In his column this week, Jay Kang asks: "how do you build a community when nobody can hold any vision, or even interpretation, of what happened in common?" www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Trump insiders say, "he is the commander-in-chief." From next week's @newyorker.com issue, @andykroll.bsky.social goes deep on Russell Vought. (In partnership with our friends @propublica.org.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball
Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump insiders say, "he is the commander-in-chief." From next week's @newyorker.com issue, @andykroll.bsky.social goes deep on Russell Vought. (In partnership with our friends @propublica.org.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Stirring, thoughtful essay by Mohammed Mhawish. "Our pain is romanticized, and our survival treated as the whole story—when it is only the beginning." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
Gaza’s Broken Politics
Every movement that claimed to speak for Palestinians has failed them. The next chapter must belong to those who have endured the devastation.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Stirring, thoughtful essay by Mohammed Mhawish. "Our pain is romanticized, and our survival treated as the whole story—when it is only the beginning." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
From Life in Prison to the Eras Tour
While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Eric Lach is out with a deep, illuminating Profile of Zohran Mamdani. “Ready or Not.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?
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October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Eric Lach is out with a deep, illuminating Profile of Zohran Mamdani. “Ready or Not.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Truly horrifying, stunning story by Jennifer Gonnerman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Truly horrifying, stunning story by Jennifer Gonnerman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
My favorite line in Amanda Petrusich's review of "The Life of the Showgirl" is her strategically placed interjection of "O.K.!" (After describing some of the cringey double entendres in Wood...) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Does Taylor Swift Think She’s Cursed?
“The Life of a Showgirl,” the artist’s new album, is full of cringey sexual innuendo, millennial perfectionism, and an obsession with her haters that wears thin.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My favorite line in Amanda Petrusich's review of "The Life of the Showgirl" is her strategically placed interjection of "O.K.!" (After describing some of the cringey double entendres in Wood...) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jay Kang is back in the columnizing seat and makes the case for free speech absolutism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Can the Democrats Take Free Speech Back from the Right?
The opportunity is there, but the Party’s establishment would have to confront the issue that has prompted more recent censorship than any other.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Jay Kang is back in the columnizing seat and makes the case for free speech absolutism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Sally Yates, the former acting general, is joining our Justice on Trial panel @newyorkerfest! Yates, of course, refused to defend Trump’s Muslim ban and was fired. She’ll be in conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen, Ruth Marcus, and Amy Davidson Sorkin. I’ll be your moderator. festival.newyorker.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Sally Yates, the former acting general, is joining our Justice on Trial panel @newyorkerfest! Yates, of course, refused to defend Trump’s Muslim ban and was fired. She’ll be in conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen, Ruth Marcus, and Amy Davidson Sorkin. I’ll be your moderator. festival.newyorker.com
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At this precarious moment in American politics, some evangelical Christians see themselves as God’s soldiers, combatants in the culture wars. Others are advocating for a gentler approach, @michaelluo.bsky.social writes.
The Politics of Faith After Charlie Kirk
The future of American democracy could depend on whether Christians see themselves as warriors or servants.
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September 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
At this precarious moment in American politics, some evangelical Christians see themselves as God’s soldiers, combatants in the culture wars. Others are advocating for a gentler approach, @michaelluo.bsky.social writes.
I reflected on what it means that Jesus was “full of grace and truth,” Dallas Willard’s “allure of gentleness” in the Christian apologetic, and whether it stands a chance in an attention economy that rewards outrage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Politics of Faith After Charlie Kirk
The future of American democracy could depend on whether Christians see themselves as warriors or servants.
www.newyorker.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I reflected on what it means that Jesus was “full of grace and truth,” Dallas Willard’s “allure of gentleness” in the Christian apologetic, and whether it stands a chance in an attention economy that rewards outrage. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Remnick: Grace is not weakness but resolve, the Charleston families believed, and politics, too, depends on a willingness to coax one another toward better ground. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Grace and Disgrace
Hope lies not in expecting a late-in-life conversion experience in the Oval Office but in carrying out the ordinary work of civic life.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Remnick: Grace is not weakness but resolve, the Charleston families believed, and politics, too, depends on a willingness to coax one another toward better ground. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The book tour continues! I'll be at the China Institute in America next week, talking about "Strangers in the Land." Wine and light refreshments will be served! Join us.
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Strangers in the Land: A Conversation with Michael Luo A Book Talk on Belonging, and the Asian American Experience | China Institute in America
Join us for a compelling evening with Michael Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker and acclaimed author of Strangers in the Land: The Struggle for Belonging in America, as he explores the complex a...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The book tour continues! I'll be at the China Institute in America next week, talking about "Strangers in the Land." Wine and light refreshments will be served! Join us.
chinainstitute.org/event/strang...
chinainstitute.org/event/strang...
I had to pick my jaw off the floor after reading this lede in @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on self-defense insurance. Like out of an Elmore Leonard novel. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Your First Call After You Shoot Someone
In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence?
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September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I had to pick my jaw off the floor after reading this lede in @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on self-defense insurance. Like out of an Elmore Leonard novel. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
“There’s little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage—especially when the poor guy isn’t just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared for the role that he’s playing,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
Kash Patel Plays a G-Man on TV
In his press conference announcing the capture of Charlie Kirk’s killer, the F.B.I. director revealed himself.
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September 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“There’s little worse than watching a nervous actor onstage—especially when the poor guy isn’t just skittish but seems genuinely unprepared for the role that he’s playing,” Vinson Cunningham writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
The Ritual of Civic Apology
More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...