Simon van Zuylen-Wood
@svzwood
Writing features @nymag svzwood at nymag dot com
while we're at it, subscribe to the awesome re-launched CREEM, which mercilessly mocks the re-launched SPIN for using AI-generated photography. Here's their great new human-generated cover
come for the recs, stay for the paean to print mags "at a time when the rush of events seems particularly frenzied and overwhelming"
can’t be a coincidence that this is the length of “Feeling This” by Blink-182…we now know what the killer needed to go through with the act
2 minutes and 53 seconds are missing from Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell footage the night he died. Can you kill someone in 2 minutes and 53 seconds?
Shane Gillis isn't a subtle comedian. But somehow this guy misunderstood BOTH jokes.
Comedian Shane Gillis calls January 6th ‘staged’ and makes a Jeffery Epstein murder joke that has crowd ROARING at the ESPYS. We control culture now.
My report from Canada on the nation's mass revolt against the United States. Here's what it looks like on the ground when you’ve managed to incense the friendliest people on the planet nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Donald Trump’s trade war and threats to absorb Canada as a U.S. state have fueled a fiery resistance up north. Americans don’t know the half of it. Read our latest cover story by @svzwood: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
come for the recs, stay for the paean to print mags "at a time when the rush of events seems particularly frenzied and overwhelming"
Was glad for the chance to make this week's selections, while also ruminating on my magazine fixation:
I love that Glenn's highly scornful adjective-laden tweet style extends to every topic
Bill Ackman used his vast wealth to worm his way into a professional, ATP-sanctioned tennis tournament at the Hall of Fame at the age of 59. His level was so abysmal that it forced the professional players on the court to pat the ball to him, enraging the tennis world.
demoralizing that the ordinarily great baseball reporter Jeff Passan is in favor of soul killing robot umpires
The response to ABS reminds me of the initial response to the pitch clock. The it's-gonna-ruin-the-game crowd is out in full force, but eventually they come around to recognize: The game is better for it. There will be growing pains, yes, but the system will be a net positive.
After a bunch of shuttling between the cloakroom and the floor, CRAPO, GRAHAM and MURKOWSKI are huddling in the back of the chamber. Murkowski has a pad of paper and the senators are all looking at it.
After a bunch of shuttling between the cloakroom and the floor, CRAPO, GRAHAM and MURKOWSKI are huddling in the back of the chamber. Murkowski has a pad of paper and the senators are all looking at it.
9 months after our legendary pro-Yankees piece, still living rent free in heads of Mets fans! @KevinTDugan you still getting these??
the yankee leviathan is falling
"This is going to be the most interesting political campaign in the history of New York City," Eric Adams says. "They have a record on tweets. I have a record on the streets."
de Blasio's campaign mantra was famously 'a tale of two cities.' Zohran's victory a legitimate political earthquake but for all the talk of him re-making the map, you could argue that the forever maligned bdb established the playbook
slightly different coalition and much higher turnout, but Mamdani's map isn't radically different from de Blasio 2013 (blue)
slightly different coalition and much higher turnout, but Mamdani's map isn't radically different from de Blasio 2013 (blue)
upper manhattan, harlem, central bk strength especially impressive - transcends what other left candidates have managed
Zohran Mamdani has remade the political map. UNBELIEVABLE
How happy am I that @matthewsedacca is now on staff at @curbed and minoring in Taco Bell Studies at @grubstreet? Talented guy, broad interests, fun colleague.
Chefs have reconfigured, reimagined, and rebranded the Crunchwrap into something of their own — and, in process, helped the hexagonal icon shed its image as a mere fast-food standard. My report on the folks thinking outside the bun for @grubstreet/@NYMag grubstreet.com/article/crunch…
a good excuse to read Kent Russell's brilliant and original Harper's piece about embedding with the Guardian Angels harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
32 years ago on June 19, 1992, the Gambino Crime Family, on the orders of John Gotti Sr. to his son John Gotti Jr., tried to kill me. I was in the back of a yellow cab on my way to do the morning show on WABC when a gunman, Michael Yannotti, shot me multiple times with hollow…
The US has led the way in fighting malnutrition for years, and USAID provided a miracle peanut paste that brings kids back from the brink -- until now. Starvation is a problem that we can actually solve, but we're now retreating from the fight. Here's what I found in West Africa:…
It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔 Relying only on EEG,…