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Review: Rebecca Solnit and Alysa Liu Both Know, The Beginning Comes After the End While we might be living through what is commonly referred to as late-stage capitalism, we are not at the end of anything—we are always in the middle of an unfolding story.

…and if you missed our review of Rebecca Solnit’s The Beginning Comes After the End, remedy that! Especially if you like figure skating and utopia and other nice things! www.whoevenreads.com/review-rebec...

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

Whidbey by @tkiramadden.bsky.social publishes today! It’s a good month for new releases, check out our Books We Like the Looks Of for March #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

It has always been true that only a fraction of the readership reads long pieces. Or reads past the jump, as they used to say in the newspaper biz.

The ones who read it all are called "readers." And they are more likely to subscribe to the publication and/or become lifelong fans of the writer.

Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Eight Kilos of Gas For months, I had watched our pile of firewood shrink. We didn’t burn it to keep warm but reserved it for cooking....

‘My mother said she would cook kabsa. Kabsa was not just a meal. It was a declaration that this day was different. The tent slowly filled with the smell of spices – a scent we had not experienced in months.’

Hassan Ayman Herzallah collects gas in Gaza, from the blog.

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Review: Rebecca Solnit and Alysa Liu Both Know, The Beginning Comes After the End While we might be living through what is commonly referred to as late-stage capitalism, we are not at the end of anything—we are always in the middle of an unfolding story.

And without missing a beat, I come across this lovely blog/newsletter title whoevenreads.com (about my 50,000 word book published Tuesday).

Thanks! Books should be short and essays should be long, that’s just how we were raised 🙂

This review ended up having a more #covidconscious focus than intended but I think that just speaks to the fact that any progressive view of the future will have to take the realities of public health seriously!

Review: Rebecca Solnit and Alysa Liu Both Know, The Beginning Comes After the End While we might be living through what is commonly referred to as late-stage capitalism, we are not at the end of anything—we are always in the middle of an unfolding story.

Here it is! Lisa's review of Rebecca Solnit's The Beginning Comes After the End, out this week from @haymarketbooks.org. Let the joy in this review, and the optimism in this book, carry you through your weekend #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-rebec...

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

The Beginning Comes After the End publishes today! Our review is forthcoming this week but here’s a quick summary, along with the other March books we recommend #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

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20 books to read by trans women via Lambda Legal #BookSKy www.instagram.com/p/DVY1OtMgAA...

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

Things are really bleak. At least two of the books we recommend for March offer a sliver of hope #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

We have a longer feature on The Beginning Comes After the End forthcoming as well. As a Chicago-based publication, we do love our @haymarketbooks.org

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

Check out our Books We Like the Looks Of feature for March, including new releases by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @tkiramadden.bsky.social, and @rebeccalehmann.bsky.social #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Cover of The Renovation by Kenan Orhan featuring a clear tarp overlaid on top of a view of Istanbul, featuring minarets and a river

Just started reading but can already highly recommend The Renovation. It’s a tense, absurdity-tinged book about displacement, language, and yearning for a place that no longer quite exists. It’s also about a woman who contracts a new bathroom but receives instead a Turkish prison cell #booksky

Everything you need to know about the International Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker Prizes From witchcraft to warfare, trauma to transformation, resilience to cruelty, this year’s longlist shines a light on a vast range of experiences

Great to see Marie NDiaye on the Booker long list. Anybody else have a favorite on here? #booksky
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If you like seeing wealthy, privileged men taken down a peg, you'll love BRAWLER's novella-length story "What's the Time, Mr. Wolf"

We were just discussing how Lauren Groff is a "writer's writer." One of the best living writers in the short story medium

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in February 2026 Our takes on six books forthcoming in February 2026, including novels, short story collections, and nonfiction.

Happy pub day to @legroff.bsky.social, a Who Even Reads favorite. BRAWLER was on our list of February Books We Like the Looks Of and it does not disappoint. We have more coverage of this book forthcoming. #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

How to write an op-ed about Long COVID YouTube video by The Sick Times

The recording of our event last week on pitching and writing op-eds about Long COVID is now available on YouTube and on our website! @thesicktimes.org youtu.be/9qS6yFwP0OY?...

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Witnessing and Resistance in Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering and ICE-Occupied Minneapolis The stories of the activist group Mothers United in Mass Mothering are refracted through the lenses of layer upon layer of witnesses. We have seen this same thing playing out in Minneapolis, where peo...

ICYMI: Check out my piece on witnessing as a political act, the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, and Sarah Bruni’s novel Mass Mothering #abolishICE #ICEout #booksky @whoevenreads.bsky.social www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

What I Learned From Kristi Yamaguchi (Published 2016)

it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere

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Review: Aoife Josie Clements' Persona and the Horror of Being Persona’s title and premise of two women who seem to share some aspects of their identities is evocative of the Bergman film of the same name, but it is also a rich exploration of technological isolat...

But seriously, check out @cookschicken.bsky.social’s fantastic review of Persona by Aoife Josie Clements if you like books about unstable, terminally online women. And subscribe to Who Even Reads for more like this. There will be more like this #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-aoife...

Cover of Persona, against a sickly green background that matches the title text, featuring the lower half of a person's face with eyes blotted out by grey brushstrokes.

Our review of Aoife Josie Clements' Persona (@littlepuss.net), which includes mentions of Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, Fariha Róisín’s Who Is Wellness For, and Joyce Carol Oates' infamous keyboard (you'll just have to read it to find out why!) #booksky

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Happy birthday to Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde who deserve all of the flowers. Always 💐💐💐💐

These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

Drawing of a whistle with thick black text reading "REPENT, COWARDS" overlaid. Jagged black and yellow lines emanate from front and back of whistle.

If you haven't already, please also check out our piece on Sarah Bruni's Mass Mothering (out this month) and ICE resistance in Chicago and Minneapolis #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/witnessing-a...

Minnesota Booksellers Not Nice in Response to ICE Indies continue to step up to support their communities

How Minnesota booksellers have resisted and responded to ICE (community support, donations, closure). Sobering stories about to what degree communities have been affected, but they also highlight the ongoing social and community relevance of indie bookstores

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