Jennifer Wilson
@JenLouiseWilson
staff writer @newyorker; formerly @nytimesbooks | Philly sports fan by birth and temperament
For this week's issue of @newyorker, I wrote about the anti-communist history of American homeownership, mortgage as a form of social control, and why some middle-income New Yorkers presented with the option to buy are opting out for ethical reasons. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
You know the situation is dire if the New York Times is using the active voice when describing a murder.
Breaking News: Israeli troops killed more than 60 Palestinians after crowds gathered near a border crossing where aid trucks enter, Gaza officials said. nyti.ms/3GRuuTp
Every once in a while I think about the fact that this was a real press conference: nypost.com/2023/01/17/eri…
US contractors working for Gaza Humanitarian Fund are shooting at starving Palestinians, @AP finds
US contractors working for Gaza Humanitarian Fund are shooting at starving Palestinians, @AP finds
from john lahr’s 2002 profile of mira nair: newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA for reporting on the Columbia student protests. My story here @NewYorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
My long and combative dispatch from the American gulag archipelago, featuring the KKK, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ice Cube, and a very angry newspaper editor, where everyone knew to say nothing. slate.com/business/2025/…
“What would our world look like without ancient Egyptian shipbuilders, Polynesian voyagers, Japanese traders, and Somali merchants? Forget globalization: Would we even have a globe?" @atossaaraxia on the wild lives of barges and ships in @booksandthearts thenation.com/article/world/…
My essay about the brilliant, pioneering & shockingly forgotten showrunner-pioneer Gertrude Berg, who invented the family sitcom (pre-Lucy!), then got eaten by the blacklist in the 1950s — a story with disturbing modern parallels newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
The role of the Hollywood intimacy coördinator, once a curio of a career, is on its way to becoming an industry standard. Along the way, it’s also become an object of intense public fascination and borderline-prurient media attention. nyer.cm/mmnc6Tq
.@jenlouisewilson attends a sex-choreography workshop to learn how to become an intimacy coördinator, one of Hollywood’s newest and most controversial jobs. nyer.cm/JaYulw4
cityheads and urbanenthusiasts (includes artists, writers, architects, planners, organizers) in NYC should apply for this fellowship: urbanomnibus.net/2025/05/call-f…