Executive Editor of The Reader, a new book review by @Monthly launching Nov. 16, 2026. (Formerly @TIME, 🇬🇪, 🇾🇪, @ColumbiaGR, @SeattleTimes)
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Had the pleasure of talking with Michael Schaffer @CityCast_DC about the launch this Sunday of @monthly's new book review, TheReaderWM.com
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The closure of The Washington Post's Book World was a gut punch for book lovers. We're proud to announce that the Washington Monthly’s new standalone book review, The Reader, is stepping into the breach.
On November 15, The Reader will begin publishing five new books-related pieces each week—mostly reviews of nonfiction, where the lack of books coverage is most severe, but we’ll tell you about important new fiction, too.
The Reader’s list of contributors includes more than thirty Pulitzer Prize winning authors, as well as marquee journalists, critics and novelists. Among our eclectic list are Jelani Cobb (@jelani9), Amy Bloom (@AmyBloomBooks), Ian Frazier, Michael Lewis, Susan Orlean (@susanorlean), and Nora Krug (@nbkrug).
All of our reviews are free, with no paywalls. Subscribe here: books.washingtonmonthly.com/
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The budget agreement that Biden and McCarthy announced tonight is almost exactly what @billscher has been predicting @monthly since February. McCarthy’s hand was weak, Bill noted, and the White House could cut a deal with very modest cuts.washingtonmonthly.com/2023/0…
The comments section on this one just keeps on giving nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opini…
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Hey Book Nerd Twitter. I’m looking for a book with a main character who is both fundamentally good but also really fun to be around (funny, wry, weird). Recommendations?
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Hard to overstate what a radical step this would be, given that many swing-state legislatures are gerrymandered in ways that self-perpetuate GOP control. Would decimate checks and balances.
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Not to freak anyone out, but there are still cases to come, including one that could shake the power of the federal government to its core. It’s called West Virginia v. EPA, and the most extreme ruling would declare that Congress lacks the power to delegate authority /1
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"Somewhere along the way, many in the mainstream feminist movement convinced themselves that the soft power of cultural representation seemed as important as the hard power of votes and seats."
@CharlotteAlter on feminism and the end of Roe
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What's the name of the particular anxiety of seeing someone typing a response on Slack for much, much longer than the question necessitated, thus implicitly communicating that they must be trying to find the nicest way possible to say you're an idiot?
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Hard to believe Tim Horton's is the tip of the spear on app surveillance. Seems more likely we just don't know the extent of what everyone else is doing. Cool cool nothing to see here nytimes.com/2022/06/11/world…
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Read this A+ piece of narrative explanatory journalism by @GiladEdelman to learn how, beneath the mountain of toxic waste that is cryptocurrency, an idealistic hacker community is trying to use the underlying blockchain technology to save the world wired.com/story/web3-paradis… @WIRED
Wrote this years ago with @luscombeland. Nothing changes except the size of the club's membership time.com/longform/school-sho…
"The 20-year nostalgia cycle, climate-change nihilism, information saturation, streaming-era content overload, and our collective Long COVID of the soul have converged in a tidal wave of tackiness." @judyberman's latest time.com/6176272/bad-taste-p… @judy
“They have their own tough guy in Donald Trump,” says George Bonser, a retired steelworker. “He’s gonna be our blue-collar tough guy.” Read @CharlotteAlter's entertaining profile of Pennsylvania's John Fetterman time.com/6175747/john-fetter…
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“Your geolocation data, apps for contraception, web searches, phone records—all of it is open season for generating data to weaponize the personal information of women across the country,” says Sen. Ron Wyden. @abbyvesoulis @TIME
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NEW: Pelosi announces the minimum salary for House staffers will be set to $45k. (Previously, many were earning mid-30s.) The House will also vote next week to allow staff to unionize. Read my behind-the-scenes feature on the group that made this happen. time.com/6160944/capitol-hil…
