Rachel Donadio
@racheldonadio.bsky.social
Contrib. ✍️ @TheAtlantic | Words @nybooks @nytimes (ex-🇮🇹 Chief & 🇪🇺 Culture Corro) | Curator of Cultural Programs @amerlibparis | rachel@racheldonadio.com
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among the MAGA faithful at the conclave @nymag.com @racheldonadio.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
Pizzagate at the Vatican
MAGA Catholics play a familiar game of conspiratorial dissent, but to what end?
nymag.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
among the MAGA faithful at the conclave @nymag.com @racheldonadio.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
I was honored to lead the @nytimes.com coverage of the 2013 conclave in which Pope Francis was elected. A while back I looked back on my experience as a Vatican correspondent, a combination of palace intrigue, political campaign and intellectual history on deadline!
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
Life on the Papal Beat (Published 2015)
A journalist reflects on covering the Vatican over the years, and how Pope Francis has, and has not, changed the institution.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I was honored to lead the @nytimes.com coverage of the 2013 conclave in which Pope Francis was elected. A while back I looked back on my experience as a Vatican correspondent, a combination of palace intrigue, political campaign and intellectual history on deadline!
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
End of an era. RIP Pope Francis, always full of surprises — including his ascent to the papacy. In another lifetime, I led @nytimes.com coverage of the conclave in which he was elected.
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
Life on the Papal Beat (Published 2015)
A journalist reflects on covering the Vatican over the years, and how Pope Francis has, and has not, changed the institution.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
End of an era. RIP Pope Francis, always full of surprises — including his ascent to the papacy. In another lifetime, I led @nytimes.com coverage of the conclave in which he was elected.
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/m...
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Un journaliste de « The Atlantic » accède à des informations ultraconfidentielles de l’administration Trump après avoir été invité par erreur dans une conversation Signal
Un journaliste de « The Atlantic » accède à des informations ultraconfidentielles de l’administration Trump après avoir été invité par erreur dans une conversation Signal
J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz et Pete Hegseth échangeaient des informations opérationnelles et politiques lors de la préparation des frappes américaines au Yémen sous les yeux de Jeffrey Goldberg. Une « débâcle » pour le sénateur démocrate Chuck Summer.
www.lemonde.fr
March 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Un journaliste de « The Atlantic » accède à des informations ultraconfidentielles de l’administration Trump après avoir été invité par erreur dans une conversation Signal
Reposted by Rachel Donadio
Reposted by Rachel Donadio
Earth’s celestial neighbors will be present at dusk this week. Here’s how to spot all seven planets.
Every Planet in Our Solar System Will Be Visible at Night This Week
With Mercury joining the show, all seven of Earth’s celestial neighbors will be present at dusk this week.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Earth’s celestial neighbors will be present at dusk this week. Here’s how to spot all seven planets.
Flagging @alecmac.bsky.social 's excellent August 2024 @propublica.org piece on Project 2025 and Paul Dans, who assembled a database of 10,000+ names — "candidates vetted for loyalty to Trump’s cause ... ready to deploy into federal agencies should he win..."
www.propublica.org/article/proj...
www.propublica.org/article/proj...
The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Flagging @alecmac.bsky.social 's excellent August 2024 @propublica.org piece on Project 2025 and Paul Dans, who assembled a database of 10,000+ names — "candidates vetted for loyalty to Trump’s cause ... ready to deploy into federal agencies should he win..."
www.propublica.org/article/proj...
www.propublica.org/article/proj...
"It’s a fable about the end of an ideal of 🇺🇸 unity and optimism. About the failure of goodness... less in the history of biopics about genius than in a tradition of stories abt communities that turn bad"
-Timothy Hampton, author of BOB DYLAN: HOW THE SONGS WORK
press.princeton.edu/ideas/once-u...
-Timothy Hampton, author of BOB DYLAN: HOW THE SONGS WORK
press.princeton.edu/ideas/once-u...
Once upon a time: Hollywood meets Bob Dylan
“A Complete Unknown” has attracted outsized media attention. As someone who has written a bit about Dylan here and there, I can attest that not a single day has gone by in the past month without me re...
press.princeton.edu
February 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"It’s a fable about the end of an ideal of 🇺🇸 unity and optimism. About the failure of goodness... less in the history of biopics about genius than in a tradition of stories abt communities that turn bad"
-Timothy Hampton, author of BOB DYLAN: HOW THE SONGS WORK
press.princeton.edu/ideas/once-u...
-Timothy Hampton, author of BOB DYLAN: HOW THE SONGS WORK
press.princeton.edu/ideas/once-u...
Wed. Jan. 29 at 19h30 we are delighted to have the marvelous writer Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Donatien Grau of the Louvre. Sign up live or on Zoom!
Beautiful new translations of EASTBOUND & CANOES are out from Archipelago Books in the U.S.
americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dekera...
Beautiful new translations of EASTBOUND & CANOES are out from Archipelago Books in the U.S.
americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dekera...
Maylis de Kerangal on Canoes and Eastbound
Award-winning French author Maylis de Kerangal discusses her latest works, Canoes and Eastbound. In conversation with Donatien Grau, Head of Contemporary Programs at the Musée du Louvre
americanlibraryinparis.org
January 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Wed. Jan. 29 at 19h30 we are delighted to have the marvelous writer Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Donatien Grau of the Louvre. Sign up live or on Zoom!
Beautiful new translations of EASTBOUND & CANOES are out from Archipelago Books in the U.S.
americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dekera...
Beautiful new translations of EASTBOUND & CANOES are out from Archipelago Books in the U.S.
americanlibraryinparis.org/event/dekera...
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Bad humor is eternal. From the year 70 CE:
“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,”
digventures.com/2019/07/roma...
“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,”
digventures.com/2019/07/roma...
Roman pen – inscribed with joke – found at London building site | DigVentures
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this lousy pen” says message on 2,000 year old stylus
digventures.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Bad humor is eternal. From the year 70 CE:
“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,”
digventures.com/2019/07/roma...
“I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty,”
digventures.com/2019/07/roma...
🇫🇷📚 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse.
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Unsinkable Paris | Rachel Donadio
One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American
www.nybooks.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇫🇷📚 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse.
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
is my 2010 essay VENICE IN WINTER, inspired by Joseph Brodsky's "Watermark" @nytimestravel.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/t...
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/t...
Venice in Winter (Published 2010)
In summer, Venice is torrid, stuffed to the gills with the 18 million tourists that overwhelm it each year. But in winter, it is a city of church bells, haze and a slow pace that reveals its soul.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
is my 2010 essay VENICE IN WINTER, inspired by Joseph Brodsky's "Watermark" @nytimestravel.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/t...
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/t...
Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of conserving the death camp. @nytimesarts.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/a...
In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of conserving the death camp. @nytimesarts.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/a...
Preserving the Ghastly Inventory of Auschwitz (Published 2015)
The aim of the foundation maintaining the site of the concentration camp is “to preserve authenticity.” It is a moral stance with specific curatorial challenges.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of conserving the death camp. @nytimesarts.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/a...
In 2015, I visited Auschwitz and wrote about the moral and practical challenges of conserving the death camp. @nytimesarts.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/a...
🇫🇷📚 Loved talking to Rachel Kushner at the American Library in Paris about her latest novel, CREATION LAKE, about Neanderthals, eco-anarchists, undercover agents, French politics, leftist idealism, how the ancient past insinuates itself into the present.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHR...
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake
YouTube video by AmericanLibraryParis
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January 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🇫🇷📚 Loved talking to Rachel Kushner at the American Library in Paris about her latest novel, CREATION LAKE, about Neanderthals, eco-anarchists, undercover agents, French politics, leftist idealism, how the ancient past insinuates itself into the present.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHR...
🇫🇷 Ten years ago this week, terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo and France began an annus horribilus. Today those scars have become part of Paris' cityscape.
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Unsinkable Paris | Rachel Donadio
One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American
www.nybooks.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🇫🇷 Ten years ago this week, terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo and France began an annus horribilus. Today those scars have become part of Paris' cityscape.
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My latest for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
🇫🇷 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse. 🇫🇷
My latest for @nybooks
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My latest for @nybooks
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Unsinkable Paris | Rachel Donadio
One evening during the Summer Olympics last August, I wandered through central Paris at dusk with a friend. We watched on a café TV as the American
www.nybooks.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:34 PM
🇫🇷 Paris is an exquisite city full of exquisite complainers, forever beset by a pervasive sense that things are terrible or dirtier or somehow worse than they used to be, when things are not, in fact, terrible or dirtier or worse. 🇫🇷
My latest for @nybooks
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My latest for @nybooks
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
🇫🇷 Closing out the year with one more for @nybooks.com — on Paris, city of revolutions past and perhaps future, city of rich and poor, city of attacks and survivors.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
December 29, 2024 at 9:29 AM
🇫🇷 Closing out the year with one more for @nybooks.com — on Paris, city of revolutions past and perhaps future, city of rich and poor, city of attacks and survivors.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
🇫🇷 The first Mass in a gorgeously restored Notre Dame is underway this morning. For more on church and state in France, here's my Laïcité deep dive for @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Why Is France So Afraid of God?
How the country came to view religion as a threat to national identity
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:38 AM
🇫🇷 The first Mass in a gorgeously restored Notre Dame is underway this morning. For more on church and state in France, here's my Laïcité deep dive for @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
🌻 Inaugurating this platform with a lovely piece on Ganavya, who I met last year at Civitella Ranieri and who has become a friend. She is one of the world's great musicians and one of the most humble — defying genres, and entirely herself. 🌻
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...
The Singer Whose Work Feels Like Prayer
On her new LP, “Daughter of a Temple,” Ganavya is the central vocalist, composer and community builder for 30 artists who constitute a who’s who in jazz and experimental music.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:09 AM
🌻 Inaugurating this platform with a lovely piece on Ganavya, who I met last year at Civitella Ranieri and who has become a friend. She is one of the world's great musicians and one of the most humble — defying genres, and entirely herself. 🌻
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/a...