Katy Waldman
@xwaldie.bsky.social
Reupping my 2025 Trump Kennedy Center Honors bingo card for no particular reason
December 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reupping my 2025 Trump Kennedy Center Honors bingo card for no particular reason
omg what an honor! um i'd like to thank the academy, james frey, my parents for ruining my personality (just kidding mom and dad it's not your fault!) lithub.com/the-most-sca...
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
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December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
omg what an honor! um i'd like to thank the academy, james frey, my parents for ruining my personality (just kidding mom and dad it's not your fault!) lithub.com/the-most-sca...
Not Zoltan Maga at the white nationalist soiree!
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Not Zoltan Maga at the white nationalist soiree!
A “take” on (or ode to) Mary McCarthy in last week’s mag www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature”
A reader trusts the author’s voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A “take” on (or ode to) Mary McCarthy in last week’s mag www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
This was my Trump Kennedy Center Honors bingo card (12/6)
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This was my Trump Kennedy Center Honors bingo card (12/6)
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Donld Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center has led to a year of embarrassment and chaos for the once venerable art institution.
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How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Donld Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center has led to a year of embarrassment and chaos for the once venerable art institution.
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Wrote about Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Wrote about Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Katy Waldman
The 48th Kennedy Center Honors was “a tacky, supersized love letter to the center’s self-installed chairman, President Donald Trump,” @xwaldie.bsky.social writes.
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How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.
www.newyorker.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The 48th Kennedy Center Honors was “a tacky, supersized love letter to the center’s self-installed chairman, President Donald Trump,” @xwaldie.bsky.social writes.
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Happy Solvej Balle day! (Every day the eighteenth) m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAW...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Happy Solvej Balle day! (Every day the eighteenth) m.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAW...
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Most stories in the time-loop genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/on-the-calculation-of-volume-solvej-balle-book-review
Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop
Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Most stories in the time-loop genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside an infinitely repeating November 18th. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/on-the-calculation-of-volume-solvej-balle-book-review
Is something going on with lettuce in NY being rotten?
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Is something going on with lettuce in NY being rotten?
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“According to the spokespeople of grind culture, the choice is clear: your individuality can make money for you or it can make money for somebody else,” Katy Waldman writes.
How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“According to the spokespeople of grind culture, the choice is clear: your individuality can make money for you or it can make money for somebody else,” Katy Waldman writes.
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Today’s self-help books for working women abandon the pretense that they have anything to do with feminism, or even work. Instead, everything is content. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/how-corporate-feminism-went-from-love-me-to-buy-me
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Today’s self-help books for working women abandon the pretense that they have anything to do with feminism, or even work. Instead, everything is content. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/how-corporate-feminism-went-from-love-me-to-buy-me
Wrote about the state of corporate feminist self-help! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wrote about the state of corporate feminist self-help! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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For the fall books issue of @newyorker.com, I reviewed Ian McEwan's excellent new novel, which features city-drowning floods, "the famous group Radiohead," and a metric ton of adultery. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve missed out on.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
For the fall books issue of @newyorker.com, I reviewed Ian McEwan's excellent new novel, which features city-drowning floods, "the famous group Radiohead," and a metric ton of adultery. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s 18th novel, takes place in the 22nd century, after a nuclear disaster. “Much of the novel’s charm lies in its re-creation of our era as seen from the future,” Katy Waldman writes.
Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
His new novel, “What We Can Know,” imagines the historians of the twenty-second century, who long for the world that they’ve missed out on.
www.newyorker.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s 18th novel, takes place in the 22nd century, after a nuclear disaster. “Much of the novel’s charm lies in its re-creation of our era as seen from the future,” Katy Waldman writes.
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Seeing ice cream cones during their spawning runs really takes your breath away. They’ll only do this once in their entire lives.
September 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seeing ice cream cones during their spawning runs really takes your breath away. They’ll only do this once in their entire lives.
Monday version of me here to re-up this post for all of your Monday selves!
I reviewed Helen Oyeyemi’s new new novel, in which a character divides herself by seven — one identity for each day of the week (Should we all try this?) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Helen Oyeyemi’s Novel of Cognitive Dissonance
Kinga, the protagonist of “A New New Me,” has an odd affliction: there are seven of her.
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September 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Monday version of me here to re-up this post for all of your Monday selves!
I reviewed Helen Oyeyemi’s new new novel, in which a character divides herself by seven — one identity for each day of the week (Should we all try this?) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Helen Oyeyemi’s Novel of Cognitive Dissonance
Kinga, the protagonist of “A New New Me,” has an odd affliction: there are seven of her.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I reviewed Helen Oyeyemi’s new new novel, in which a character divides herself by seven — one identity for each day of the week (Should we all try this?) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
While I’m self-promoting, this piece is in dialogue with an earlier piece about MAGA aesthetics and how Trump is a LLM regurgitating signifiers without understanding them www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
While I’m self-promoting, this piece is in dialogue with an earlier piece about MAGA aesthetics and how Trump is a LLM regurgitating signifiers without understanding them www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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With media such as “28 Years Later” and “The Last of Us,” 2025 has been a bacchanalia of zombies. Katy Waldman writes about our cultural fixation on the walking dead.
Our Age of Zombie Culture
Zombies are the least eloquent monster. But they have a lot to say about us.
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August 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
With media such as “28 Years Later” and “The Last of Us,” 2025 has been a bacchanalia of zombies. Katy Waldman writes about our cultural fixation on the walking dead.
Zombies are reactionary babies, tell your friends www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Our Age of Zombie Culture
Zombies are the least eloquent monster. But they have a lot to say about us.
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August 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Zombies are reactionary babies, tell your friends www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Really enjoyed spending time with the film Sorry Baby and with its singular creator and star Eva Victor www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
How Eva Victor Reimagined the Trauma Plot
In her new film, the actor, writer, and director charts the nonlinear course of a young woman’s recovery from assault.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Really enjoyed spending time with the film Sorry Baby and with its singular creator and star Eva Victor www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
I snuck a few of my "Anora" gripes into a piece about "Materialists" and the rise of the anti-Cinderella story
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June 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I snuck a few of my "Anora" gripes into a piece about "Materialists" and the rise of the anti-Cinderella story
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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