Michael Luo
@michaelluo.bsky.social
New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
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Michael Luo
@michaelluo.bsky.social
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Now on sale! “This is not just the story of the Chinese in America; it’s the story of any number of immigrant groups who have been treated as strangers. It’s the story of our diverse democracy. It’s the story of us.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704981...
Just utterly harrowing, outrage-inducing reporting by Sarah Stillman. “I’m in Ghana!” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just utterly harrowing, outrage-inducing reporting by Sarah Stillman. “I’m in Ghana!” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, is incredibly brave to publish this piece @newyorker.com. She writes beautifully and thinks clearly. God grant her and her family strength and peace. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, is incredibly brave to publish this piece @newyorker.com. She writes beautifully and thinks clearly. God grant her and her family strength and peace. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Thank you @washingtonpost.com for choosing "Strangers in the Land" as one of your 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2025! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025
The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Thank you @washingtonpost.com for choosing "Strangers in the Land" as one of your 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2025! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
This is a pretty remarkable recollection by Mark Singer about a plane ride he took in 1997 with Trump and Ghislaine to Palm Beach. When they were about to land, they got on the phone w/ their mutual friend, "Jeffrey." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump
From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is a pretty remarkable recollection by Mark Singer about a plane ride he took in 1997 with Trump and Ghislaine to Palm Beach. When they were about to land, they got on the phone w/ their mutual friend, "Jeffrey." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Fascinating piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social on the long, strange path of a clause in the 14th amendment and the contested nature of citizenship www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Fascinating piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social on the long, strange path of a clause in the 14th amendment and the contested nature of citizenship www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Thanks to the editors at Time magazine for choosing "Strangers in the Land" as one of your 100 Must-Read Books of 2025! time.com/collections/...
'Strangers in the Land' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thanks to the editors at Time magazine for choosing "Strangers in the Land" as one of your 100 Must-Read Books of 2025! time.com/collections/...
Reposted by Michael Luo
The U.N. estimates that at least 1.9 million people were displaced during the war in Gaza. One of them is Shahd Shamali, who was given just 20 minutes to flee her home. Mohammed R. Mhawish recounts her experience, with illustrations by Rama Duwaji. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/R9Vsjr
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory
After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The U.N. estimates that at least 1.9 million people were displaced during the war in Gaza. One of them is Shahd Shamali, who was given just 20 minutes to flee her home. Mohammed R. Mhawish recounts her experience, with illustrations by Rama Duwaji. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/R9Vsjr
Moving, imaginatively told story from Gaza. Reporting by Mohammed Mhawish. Illustrations by Rama Duwaji. www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory
After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Moving, imaginatively told story from Gaza. Reporting by Mohammed Mhawish. Illustrations by Rama Duwaji. www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...
Antonia Hitchens is out with a deep, insightful profile of Laura Loomer. Trump, she insisted, is the only “other person on this planet who I think can actually empathize with me and who I can actually empathize with. I really do believe that.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Antonia Hitchens is out with a deep, insightful profile of Laura Loomer. Trump, she insisted, is the only “other person on this planet who I think can actually empathize with me and who I can actually empathize with. I really do believe that.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
Reposted by Michael Luo
Before New York voters go to the ballot box, they’re sitting on their therapist’s couch—where they’re unpacking their Mamdani-induced fears and their Cuomo-fuelled stress. Or, as usual, they’re talking about Trump.
The N.Y.C. Mayoral Election, as Processed in Therapy
Before voters go to the ballot box, they’re sitting on their therapist’s couch—where they’re unpacking their Mamdani-induced fears and their Cuomo-fuelled stress. Or, as usual, they’re talking about T...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Before New York voters go to the ballot box, they’re sitting on their therapist’s couch—where they’re unpacking their Mamdani-induced fears and their Cuomo-fuelled stress. Or, as usual, they’re talking about Trump.
Introducing Shuffalo! @newyorker.com's new word game. Incredibly fun. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Introducing Shuffalo, Our New Word Game
A daily anagramming challenge with a twist.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Introducing Shuffalo! @newyorker.com's new word game. Incredibly fun. www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Beautiful essay by Patti Smith, drawn from her forthcoming book, Bread of Angels. Cameos by Robert Mapplethorpe, Bob Dylan, and Sam Shepard. "...if you miss a beat, invent another."
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Essay by Patti Smith: Art Rats in New York City
Finding my own words.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Beautiful essay by Patti Smith, drawn from her forthcoming book, Bread of Angels. Cameos by Robert Mapplethorpe, Bob Dylan, and Sam Shepard. "...if you miss a beat, invent another."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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"The shock that images of the destruction provoke..is not an overreaction to the loss of a beloved building. It is a recognition of something deeper: the central values of democracy being demolished before our eyes. Now we do not only sense it. We see it." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The shock that images of the destruction provoke..is not an overreaction to the loss of a beloved building. It is a recognition of something deeper: the central values of democracy being demolished before our eyes. Now we do not only sense it. We see it." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This is a really urgent, wrenching read by Clay Dalton, a physician-writer for @newyorker.com, looking at the short and long-term after-effects of starvation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Comes After Starvation in Gaza?
For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is a really urgent, wrenching read by Clay Dalton, a physician-writer for @newyorker.com, looking at the short and long-term after-effects of starvation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
In his column this week, Jay Kang asks: "how do you build a community when nobody can hold any vision, or even interpretation, of what happened in common?" www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
How Will Americans Remember the War in Gaza?
In the twentieth century, we relied on the news media to select images and provide context. Now fewer and fewer of us are seeing the same things.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In his column this week, Jay Kang asks: "how do you build a community when nobody can hold any vision, or even interpretation, of what happened in common?" www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Trump insiders say, "he is the commander-in-chief." From next week's @newyorker.com issue, @andykroll.bsky.social goes deep on Russell Vought. (In partnership with our friends @propublica.org.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball
Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump insiders say, "he is the commander-in-chief." From next week's @newyorker.com issue, @andykroll.bsky.social goes deep on Russell Vought. (In partnership with our friends @propublica.org.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Stirring, thoughtful essay by Mohammed Mhawish. "Our pain is romanticized, and our survival treated as the whole story—when it is only the beginning." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
Gaza’s Broken Politics
Every movement that claimed to speak for Palestinians has failed them. The next chapter must belong to those who have endured the devastation.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Stirring, thoughtful essay by Mohammed Mhawish. "Our pain is romanticized, and our survival treated as the whole story—when it is only the beginning." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/g...
In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
From Life in Prison to the Eras Tour
While serving time for murder, Joe Garcia heard Taylor Swift’s music and thought of the woman he loved. Last year, they were reunited.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In 2023, @newyorker.com published Joe Garcia's "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison," which went viral. This is the sequel. Find out what happened with Garcia's parole and how he managed to get to the last stop in the Eras tour. www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Eric Lach is out with a deep, illuminating Profile of Zohran Mamdani. “Ready or Not.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?
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October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Eric Lach is out with a deep, illuminating Profile of Zohran Mamdani. “Ready or Not.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Truly horrifying, stunning story by Jennifer Gonnerman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Truly horrifying, stunning story by Jennifer Gonnerman. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
My favorite line in Amanda Petrusich's review of "The Life of the Showgirl" is her strategically placed interjection of "O.K.!" (After describing some of the cringey double entendres in Wood...) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Does Taylor Swift Think She’s Cursed?
“The Life of a Showgirl,” the artist’s new album, is full of cringey sexual innuendo, millennial perfectionism, and an obsession with her haters that wears thin.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My favorite line in Amanda Petrusich's review of "The Life of the Showgirl" is her strategically placed interjection of "O.K.!" (After describing some of the cringey double entendres in Wood...) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jay Kang is back in the columnizing seat and makes the case for free speech absolutism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Can the Democrats Take Free Speech Back from the Right?
The opportunity is there, but the Party’s establishment would have to confront the issue that has prompted more recent censorship than any other.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Jay Kang is back in the columnizing seat and makes the case for free speech absolutism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Sally Yates, the former acting general, is joining our Justice on Trial panel @newyorkerfest! Yates, of course, refused to defend Trump’s Muslim ban and was fired. She’ll be in conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen, Ruth Marcus, and Amy Davidson Sorkin. I’ll be your moderator. festival.newyorker.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Sally Yates, the former acting general, is joining our Justice on Trial panel @newyorkerfest! Yates, of course, refused to defend Trump’s Muslim ban and was fired. She’ll be in conversation with Jeannie Suk Gersen, Ruth Marcus, and Amy Davidson Sorkin. I’ll be your moderator. festival.newyorker.com