Staff Writer @NewYorker. Author of FUTURE SEX (2016), NOLLYWOOD (2017) and HEALTH AND SAFETY (2024).
Joined September 2008
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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/…
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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…
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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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If you are near or at Columbia tomorrow at lunchtime, please come see Emily Witt (@embot) in conversation with Rivka Galchen (@rivkagalchen). Lunch provided! Non-CUID holders please email me today at my Columbia address to gain admission.
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Our conversation with @embot about the LA wildfires, her latest dispatches for @NewYorker, and the prophetic work of Octavia Butler.
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learned yesterday that my essay on nyc clubbing and emily witt was the most read print piece in @thenation this year <3
thank you to everyone who read it and hopefully one of these days i'll come out retirement and see you at bossa
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"2024 was a year when I could never write quickly enough and there was always something overdue." @embot themillions.com/2024/12/a-ye…
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This Tuesday, December 10, see @ColumbiaJournMA Arts and Culture Concentration professor @davidhajdu_ in NYC at a music-themed @KGBBarRedRm Journalist Reading Series event with authors including @embot (MS Stabile '09). Learn more: kgbbar.com/event/kgb-journal…
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I really enjoyed reading and writing about @embot's Health and Safety, even though it was about parties I've never been to and drugs I've never taken
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good day to read this story about willow, a trans teen escaping tennessee, by @embot
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Congrats to @newyorker writers @embot @emilynussbaum @JonathanBlitzer @elizagriswold @NifMuhammad @vcunningham for making this list! nytimes.com/interactive/2024…
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The 100 must-read books of 2024: Health and Safety by @embot ti.me/48Q0lNC
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Kamala Harris spent the last day of the 2024 election campaign in Pennsylvania, a swing state crucial to her path to the White House. @embot reports from Harris’s final rally. nyer.cm/pDfSH9W
