Zamira Rahim
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
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Zamira Rahim
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
· Jun 15
Got to see my fiction in print for the first time, which has been a weirdly emotional experience. You spend five years squinting at something on a Google Doc and it doesn't seem real, until suddenly it very much is.
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lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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It's hard to beat this photo, though. Tragic.
Huge Fire Engulfs Apartment Buildings in Hong Kong
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It's hard to beat this photo, though. Tragic.
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Doing a U-turn on a tax the market both wanted and expected on the day of the budget itself would have been absolute smackhead behaviour. From great piece by @pronouncedalva.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Doing a U-turn on a tax the market both wanted and expected on the day of the budget itself would have been absolute smackhead behaviour. From great piece by @pronouncedalva.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
I could spend all day looking at this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I could spend all day looking at this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Intriguing look at the business (and the inconvenience) behind the impeccables homes you see in TV dramas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Intriguing look at the business (and the inconvenience) behind the impeccables homes you see in TV dramas www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
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If you want any of my books, including the upcoming new edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill with an intro by me and a conversation between Stoya and me, now's an excellent time to shop because @unnamedpress.bsky.social is offering a sweet holiday deal.
Chelsea G. Summers — Unnamed Press
Chelsea G. Summers is the author of the best-selling novel A Certain Hunger. Summers’ work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vogue, The New Republic, Racked, The Guardian, and other fine publications...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you want any of my books, including the upcoming new edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill with an intro by me and a conversation between Stoya and me, now's an excellent time to shop because @unnamedpress.bsky.social is offering a sweet holiday deal.
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. . . from his ‘A Garage in Co. Cork’:
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
. . . from his ‘A Garage in Co. Cork’:
My feed is a mix of Americans up late and reading Lizza and Brits waking up early to watch the cricket. I have realised that my true tribe is somehow in the overlap.
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
My feed is a mix of Americans up late and reading Lizza and Brits waking up early to watch the cricket. I have realised that my true tribe is somehow in the overlap.
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Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) has won the National Book Award for Fiction! Read more here:
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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up
I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my world sucks, I shut the drapes, hide under the cover, and read. And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy novels,…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) has won the National Book Award for Fiction! Read more here:
buff.ly/bRP0dCT
buff.ly/bRP0dCT
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We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers…
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
Re that Vanity Fair piece.... a lot of writers think Joan Didion was successful because of the images in her work (the yellow silk hanging from the windows, the smell of jasmine) and the famous photos of the Corvette. But Didion writes with unsparing precision and her work has a brutal streak.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Re that Vanity Fair piece.... a lot of writers think Joan Didion was successful because of the images in her work (the yellow silk hanging from the windows, the smell of jasmine) and the famous photos of the Corvette. But Didion writes with unsparing precision and her work has a brutal streak.
Did not realise that the folks at St. John had taken over the old LRB cake shop but I'm so pleased that they did
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Did not realise that the folks at St. John had taken over the old LRB cake shop but I'm so pleased that they did
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Yup it is.
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
www.irishtimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yup it is.
'Spring and Fall' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
'Spring and Fall' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I kinda want Chotiner to interview Nuzzi
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I kinda want Chotiner to interview Nuzzi
I decided to finally read Middlemarch on my month off work - it's filled with sublime, carefully written passages like this, where Dorothea visits her marital home for the first time.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I decided to finally read Middlemarch on my month off work - it's filled with sublime, carefully written passages like this, where Dorothea visits her marital home for the first time.
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This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
Booker Prize winner David Szalay, who abandoned Flesh several times in the early stages, stresses the importance of risk when writing a novel
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
We are very sad to learn of the death of our friend Rachel Cooke. In addition to being a wonderful writer and a superb critic, she loved books to her core. She kept us on our toes and it was a joy and a privilege to spend time with her, on and off the show. RIP. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
RIP Rachel Cooke, fellow Puffin Club member and evangelist of All the Devils Are Here, formidable critic and true believer in the power and importance of the good stuff, in whatever form it takes. I’m gutted we won’t get to talk about books again. My condolences to Rachel’s friends and family. x
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Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
"It would be, to some extent, a novel about contemporary Europe, and about the cultural and economic divides that characterise it.” www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
David Szalay's Flesh wins the Booker Prize
The British-Hungarian writer is one of the more justly deserved laureates in recent years
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"It would be, to some extent, a novel about contemporary Europe, and about the cultural and economic divides that characterise it.” www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
I am intrigued by terms like 'yookay', 'freshies' and also 'Boriswave' now being used in a completely offhand manner by writers and journos
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am intrigued by terms like 'yookay', 'freshies' and also 'Boriswave' now being used in a completely offhand manner by writers and journos
Heard Carol of the Bells for the first time this year and am reminded that this is my favourite season because of all the good choral music that spills out of shops, radios and random train stations
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Heard Carol of the Bells for the first time this year and am reminded that this is my favourite season because of all the good choral music that spills out of shops, radios and random train stations
South Asian diaspora mothers are about to be absolutely unbearable today and you know what, let them enjoy themselves
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
South Asian diaspora mothers are about to be absolutely unbearable today and you know what, let them enjoy themselves