Evan Osnos

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Quinn Slobodian |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss

Quinn Slobodian. Zone, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-890951-91-7Despite “lazy media framing” that presents Trump-era populism as a backlash against capitalism, many of the movement’s “supposed disruptors of the status quo” are in fact agents of a new capitalist vanguard, according to this incisive account.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Anelise Chen |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss

Anelise Chen. One World, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0184-5Novelist and Columbia University creative writing professor Chen (So Many Olympic Exertions) serves up an offbeat memoir inspired by her mother’s habitual misspelling of “calm down” as “clam down” in text messages. After the end of Chen’s marriage, her mother’s inadvertent typo prompted introspection about Chen’s tendencies to retreat, self-protect, and stay silent.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Jill Bialosky |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss

The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My MotherPoet, novelist, and Norton executive editor Bialosky (Asylum) delivers a nuanced portrait of her mother, Iris, who died in 2020. Telling the story in reverse, Bialosky opens with Iris’s death from Alzheimer’s while in hospice in Ohio, then highlights the challenges of caring for an aging parent long-distance from New York City: “The painful absence and loneliness at the core of her life frightens me,” Bialosky writes.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jane Mayer |Evan Osnos

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable speaks with with Michael Waldman, the president and C.E.O. of the Brennan Center for Justice, at N.Y.U. Law, to discuss the escalating attacks on the judiciary by President Trump and his allies. If the Administration ignores a legitimate order from a federal judge, as it has come close to doing, what can the courts do in response?

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Jane Mayer |Evan Osnos

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the ideological underpinnings of Elon Musk’s DOGE with the former Democratic operative and San Francisco-based journalist Gil Duran. Duran writes about the so-called cognitive élite, the right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government, on his newsletter The Nerd Reich.