Jessi Jezewska Stevens
@JezewskaJ
Author of THE EXHIBITION OF PERSEPHONE Q, THE VISITORS, GHOST PAINS Reporting @ForeignPolicy etc. Teaching @UZH_ch
GHOST PAINS UK tour begins next week, courtesy of the wonderful bookstores & interlocutors below. Just another American in London / Manchester / Liverpool / Bristol. I'll be reading exclusively from the funny bits~
Featuring: • @JezewskaJ in @bookforum on a new novel by Michael Clune • @xlorentzen in @nytimes on a book about Condé Nast • @lacollee in @SydReviewBooks on two books set in space • @amjuster in @thedispatch on why Americans don’t like poetry Read now.
The Summer issue is here! Featuring a talk with Susan Choi, essays and reviews by John Jeremiah Sullivan, @blgtylr, @livingcurrency, @_josiemitchell, @JezewskaJ, Elias Altman, Audrey Wollen, @3LVVIA, @sophiefkemp & more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3104
Solun mizah anlayışı, günümüz siyasetinde kılıcın iki yüzü gibi; hem keskin bir aydınlanma aracı hem de zamanla paslanarak zarar veren bir silah. Jessi Jezewska Stevens'ın kaleme aldığı yazı, ironinin sol düşüncede bir zamanlar direnç ve eleştiri kaynağı olduğunu, fakat…
Wrote about the GOAT debate in US fiction. (Link below.)
New rule you cannot run in a democratic primary unless you can walk the length of manhattan
Congratulations again to all the good & righteous Mamdani canvassers who were out there like:
As the trans-Atlantic relationship sinks to new lows, the Eurovision slogan, “United by Music,” feels newly urgent for continental security, @JezewskaJ writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/eur…
“There is a deep sincerity to this book,” @JezewskaJ says of “The Magic Mountain” in the latest episode of Selected Novels. “There is a kind of warmth in the commitment to its questioning, in the commitment to its ambition to dramatize all of life.” thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…
“The unique value of this memoir is the invitation to reflect on how those of us outside the abyss treat others in the midst of great loss.”—@JezewskaJ writes about Yiyun Li’s latest book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow” @fsgbooks 4columns.org/stevens-jessi-…
OUT NOW: ISSUE 363! @JezewskaJ on Yiyun Li’s new memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow”; Andrew Chan on Mikio Naruse @js_film_nyc; Ania Szremski on “Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe” @MADmuseum; and Mark Dery on “Is a River Alive?” by @RobGMacfarlane 4columns.org
Hans Castrop forever ~
“I think it’s so useful for a novel to have a kind of calibrated stupidity for your protagonist, so they can be accidentally wise.” thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…
In today’s new episode of Selected Novels, @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine talk to @JezewskaJ about “The Magic Mountain,” its influence on her own fiction, and why novels of ideas are life-affirming: buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…
The Spring issue is here! David Velasco interviews @sarahschulman3, essays & reviews by @lidijalidijjja, @MoiraDonegan, Audrey Wollen, @Harmony_Holiday, @CharoShane, @sashafrerejones, Hannah Black, @JezewskaJ, and more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3104
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo_news show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home." zeteo.com/p/scoop-emails…
You can disagree with some (or all) of the tactics and rhetoric of the student protesters at Columbia--and I'm happy to debate this in the future--but right now this is very simple: The Trump administration is trying to deport someone for speech they don't agree with. That is all
Starting now, the right wing and some of their Democrat establishment enablers will defame Palestinian American Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil as he remains missing after a White House directed ICE deportation order. A "dangerous" negotiator co leading a non violent protest.…
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
NEWS: Last night, DHS detained a Palestinian who helped lead Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs…
musical talent update: knack for discovering surprise concerts at museum of mineralogy (due to low-key interest in rocks)
This just in husband can also read to LCD Soundsystem at top volume, I cannot, where are my obscure musical talents : /