Marella Gayla
@MarellaGayla
editor @newyorker
i love you @tnyfrontrow. everybody must read this. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
Caroline Fraser’s new book connects the “golden age” of serial killers and environmental degradation, tracing “a long line of outlandishly wanton necrophiliac killers who’ve lived, at one time or another, within the Tacoma smelter plume.” nyer.cm/ammYBBE
Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.
Much of the coverage of Zohran Mamdani has focused on his social media campaign. But he also did something simple: actually met New Yorkers on the street
“Regular New Yorkers encountering Mamdani on the street don’t recoil. The most fervent fear of him was expressed by the powerful.” @ericlach newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
As @andrewcuomo pulls away from his polling site on East 56th a HS student heckles him for telling the NYT he likes a “bacon cheese and egg” on an english muffin. “What about your bagel order?!”
from john lahr’s 2002 profile of mira nair: newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
For @NewYorker, I wrote about (a new book about) ABBA: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin’s call for a monarch to rule America once seemed like a joke. Not anymore. nyer.cm/T2BRPbs
lovely story about all the freaks in this town newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
It took management five months to tell us they’re offering NO increase to our salary floor. Meanwhile, the cost of living in NYC is higher than ever. We deserve livable wages so we can afford to keep making the magazine we love. Please support our fight for a fair contract!
just unrelentingly bleak nymag.com/intelligencer/…
some luminaries of scandal weigh in on this year’s mayoral race @ericlach newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
Another interesting tidbit here from @ericlach: “When he talks to Trump, he calls him ‘boss,’ ” the former Cuomo aide said. “I’ve never heard him call anyone else ‘boss.’ newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
She wrote an op-ed for a student newspaper.
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE. A video shared with GBH News shows a man in a hoodie approach her, then grab her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.” wgbh.org/news/local/202… @sweetadelinevt @GBHNews
Good luck to everyone starting the Mark Wahlberg 40-Day Challenge tomorrow
I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship—and wrote about the global network of maritime archeologists excavating the Middle Passage newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…