Kurt Andersen

Exciting: Random House officially released the cover of my forthcoming novel. Feel free to pre-order the book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494...

Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.

He also said that Putin told him that “no country has mail-in voting.” Trump is a credulous moron. But surely Putin knows the truth, and if he actually said this he was just lying for fun to his most useful idiot ever.

If this is how deranged he is and they are 217 days in, what is the madness 1,242 days from now? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

The third paragraph in this story in today's @nytimes.com by the great British football writer (and Italian knight) James Horncastle absolutely made my day.

This is interesting. Hope it's so. Fingers crossed that Maine Democrats make the optimal choice at their convention two weeks from now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Q9...

A tiny, deeply gratifying thing I did for the first time the other day: in a Wikipedia reference to a recently deceased public figure, I changed “the passing of” to “the death of,” and it seems to have stuck.

Erdogan (left) is 6 feet or 6’1” and Mark Rutte (center) is 6’4”. The liar (right) claims he’s 6’3”.

Maggie Haberman and @jonathanswan.bsky.social’s Regime Change is so great. For instance, this scene of the Evil Geniuses gathered with Trump and Stephen Miller in the Cabinet Room last year. Comic book villains come to life.

From my new novel The Breakup, which comes out in 5 weeks. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494... If you'd like you can pre-order a signed copy here: mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781984...

New Yorkers & visitors: I love the magnificent new restaurant Zoli in East WIlliamsburg, Ned Baldwin's 2nd restaurant, whose Tribeca restaurant Houseman I've loved since it opened years ago. Glad to see the great food critic @hels gets and likes Zoli a lot too. link.newyorker.com/view/5c48df7...

What an absolutely fascinating, well-reported story. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Perfect, uncanny portrait of Mr. & Mrs. Jr.

A truly spectacular display of his narcissistic personality disorder. This is an impotent act of angry petulance over his legislative impotence. And in doing so totally dilutes the midterm-election political benefit to the Republicans in Congress who passed this bipartisan bill.