This is the longest piece I ever published, and with the New Yorker. “A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza” It’s about my painful experience of being separated from my family, beaten and shackled, as well as the terrorizing days before and after. It’s published

The most important piece I ever published.

Last month, Israeli forces blindfolded, beat, and interrogated the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha. In this week’s @newyorker, Mosab tells his story. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

One month ago, Mosab Abu Toha started texting me a few hundred words a day. He was still in Gaza. Still sleeping in a school. Still recovering from beatings he got in Israeli custody. But every day, he typed this story into his phone: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

a shattering story by Mosab Abu Toha, but also such a graceful and surprising piece of food writing, capturing small moments of Palestinian joy alongside sorrow newyorker.com/news/essay/my-…

I’ve been thinking about this line with every meal: “In Gaza, this food could save a person’s life.” Mosab Abu Toha writes a heartbreaker for @newyorker: newyorker.com/news/essay/my-…

My essay in The New Yorker about Ramadan, Gaza, and sacrifice in a time of so much suffering. 🌙❤️newyorker.com/news/essay/fas…

The week of July 4th, I'm teaching an essay-writing workshop in the beautiful town of Rockport, Maine. It's designed for a wide range of writers: journalists, memoirists, academics, activists. Sign up Maine Media and spread the word: mainemedia.edu/workshops/item…

A sliver of good news: For his remarkable The New Yorker stories about life and death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha has won the Flora Lewis Award for commentary from Overseas Press Club. opcofamerica.org/85th-annual-ov…

In today’s Daily Newsletter, the writer John McPhee tells a science editor about his first time experiencing an earthquake: today, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Read more: nyer.cm/gX8t8mA

Very proud to have edited this moving piece along with Aviva. Congrats to Medar and the many The New Yorker colleagues who made it possible. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... propublica.org/article/3m-for…

and here's the NYer version newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…