Author of The Submission and A Door in the Earth. Former NY Times and Atlantic writer.
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Joined January 2011
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"Last winter, on a day that would reach 66 degrees by noon, I saw, on the wall of the Whitney Museum, a painting of snow...." An essay for @tmagazine on art and climate loss nytimes.com/2021/01/19/t-mag…
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Fiction illuminates and deepens what the news only exclaims over, then simplifies. If you want to know what's happening in Afghanistan today, turn away from the latest excited report and open Amy Waldman's nuanced and unforgettable 2019 novel, A Door in the Earth.
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Remarkable. @latimesbooks names @amywaldman "The Submission" as most enduring and best novel about 9/11. "Waldman, a former @nytimes reporter with a shrewd, subtle sense of satire, demands that artists be judged by their art."
Buy: amazon.com/Submission-Novel-…
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It took tens of thousands of lives, hundred billions of dollars, four US Presidents, 20 years of ugly war, millions displaced to replace #Taliban with the Taliban
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Grateful to have had the opportunity to write for @just_security on the responsibility of international community towards Afghan victims of war & Afghan demand for justice and accountability.
Ending the Forever War, But Leaving a Legacy of Impunity in Afghanistan
By @ShaharzadAkbar, chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (@AfghanistanIHRC): justsecurity.org/77207/endin…
"the final hours of the lost war": In Afghanistan, an Unceremonious End, and a Shrouded Beginning nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world…
This is not a photo of the end of America's war, even if it was taken on the last day. This is a photo of the war. This is what it looked like all along.
Jet fighters circle the skies of #Kabul as the U.S. withdrawal concludes, and family members attending a mass funeral for the 10 they say were killed in a U.S. drone strike – look up and weep as the roar of the jet engines never ends. #afghanistan
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I will be one of the mentors for the wonderful @AsiaSpeaks initiative for writers that @soniafaleiro started.
Applications for the next batch open on Sept. 1 here:
southasiaspeaks.org/
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For anyone trying to understand the miasma in Afghanistan – I strongly recommend this 2019 book by @amywaldman. It’s a novel that has more wisdom and depth than all the shouting on TV combined.
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I look forward to the day when artists (of all types) take on the climate crisis with the same urgency and fearlessness as they did during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 90s.
"Last winter, on a day that would reach 66 degrees by noon, I saw, on the wall of the Whitney Museum, a painting of snow...." An essay for @tmagazine on art and climate loss nytimes.com/2021/01/19/t-mag…
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This beautiful essay by @amywaldman partially explains the crushing volume of snow photos on my social media feeds today. nytimes.com/2021/01/19/t-mag…
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Beautiful essay on paintings of snow and what it means, because of climate change, to look at them, by @amywaldman: nytimes.com/2021/01/19/t-mag…
Alarming, if true: "In Mumbai...city authorities were planning to administer hydroxycloroquine to thousands of slum-dwellers over 14 days to gauge whether the drug helped to slow the spread of the disease in a place where social distancing norms aren’t possible" (@AP)
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TONIGHT! “Worldwide Concert for Our Culture”, 7:30PM EDT. We want to see your #CouchGalaGlam! Snap a pic & tag @jazzdotorg in your #CouchGalaGlam PJ’s/loungewear/gowns while you’re tuning in at facebook.com/jazzatlincolnce… or jazz.org/gala2020/
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Powerful, devastating read of the day of paramedic and VP of the FDNY-EMS union (and great former @@BklynCollege411 student) @AnthonyAlmojera on the frontlines of the pandemic: Coronavirus in New York: A paramedic's diary bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
Just a reminder that after 9/11 Muslim-Americans were also asked to demonstrate their loyalty. It was wrong then to ask a group to prove its Americanness, it’s wrong now.
We Asian Americans are not the virus, but we can be part of the cure, @AndrewYang writes wapo.st/2Jwe95h
You can and should watch the Senate debate on the bailout bill here: senate.gov/legislative/floor… And let them know you're watching. #senatelive #yourconstituentsarewatching #pleaseaddbetterhashtags
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THIS THIS THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THIS. Please watch and share. Brilliantly and simply put.
Also: follow @juliettekayyem if you don't yet. No one understands better how government should work in a crisis and what needs to happen next. I can say after 40 years of friendship that we would not be in this situation if she'd been in charge of Homeland Security.