My column this week is about the Trump administration’s farcical attempt to accuse South Africa of a “white genocide”

I wrote about Gaza, and about writing about Gaza www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

I wrote about ole Luigi www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I like the wording here because it implies that Christmas will be released from prison an hour or two after Enoch Burke, and will hunt him down in a kind of festive “Most Dangerous Game” scenario, for our entertainment

Me when I don’t want to go into the particulars

Andy Warhol retire, bitch

I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books

Found the absolute worst thing to listen to at the gym. I simply cannot recommend against it enough, in terms of listening to at the gym

The Korean cover of Notes from an Apocalypse (published there next month) is an absolute banger, imo