Staff Writer @NewYorker. Author of FUTURE SEX (2016), NOLLYWOOD (2017) and HEALTH AND SAFETY (2024).
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Health and Safety is out today in paperback! Thanks to everyone who has read and supported the book 💚
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In a new solo show at the Gugenheim, Taryn Simon attempts to tell the story of America through images. “Simon’s documentation of the institutional uses of photography rarely coheres into a point of view, as if, for her, cataloguing them is enough,” Emily Witt writes.newyorkermag.visitlink.me/US…
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This is the definitive piece on what happened in Minneapolis, by @embot, who was there from the beginning and has stayed with the story long after most reporters left. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
My most recent @newyorker article is about the human and moral cost of last winter's ICE surge to Minnesota. I spent all of this year reporting it and while I'm pleased to see it triggering the bots, I hope you will read it too.
Between December, 2025, and February, 2026, more than 3,000 federal immigration agents were deployed in Minneapolis—detaining nearly 4,000 immigrants, and killing two U.S. citizens. Emily Witt reports on the aftermath of Operation Metro Surge.
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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"Anatomy of a Siege" by Emily Witt (@embot) is our pick from the September 7, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/…
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🚨 New Witt 🚨 newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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“Mindlessly hedonistic, snobbishly insular, and punishingly cliquish though it might seem (and is), the booming Bushwick club scene has lately drawn the attention of ‘serious’ writers and thinkers.” New online: @comradesanchez on rave writing. nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates.
We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess…
R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess…
Track playing in the ambient room when a dude on the internet thinks the heads have never heard of Sheltering Sky youtube.com/watch?v=UyK1VYUY…
When you start "the world's biggest bookstore" and buy a print publication but think encouraging a culture of reading is a waste of money and kill its books section.
A Talk of the Town from an elementary school in Minneapolis newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Dispatch from my hometown, wish none of this had ever happened newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
I wrote about ICE taking people off the streets of Los Angeles newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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In this week's RA Exchange, @NewYorker staff writer Emily Witt (@embot) discusses how to protect the underground, experimenting with drugs and her new book, Health and Safety.
Listen to the episode: ra.co/exchange/808
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In L.A., is the military playing the role of an ordering force—or an occupying one? @embot reports.
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Boston-area followers, there's a fundraising gala for the Altadena family I wrote about in January who lost their homes eventbrite.com/e/loren-benn-…
I wrote about Bernie and AOC in Tucson for @NewYorker
At the “Fight Oligarchy” tour stop in Arizona, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hammered home a single message: the government has been taken hostage by a cabal of billionaires, and the only way to wrest it back is by unifying the working class. nyer.cm/etMPWlE
