The White Review is inviting proposals for a new two-year, part-time editorship.

At New York’s Intelligencer, Reeves Wiedeman reports on the “ideological turf war” at the New York Times, talking with staff about how the paper has handled recent reckonings over diversity, institutional objectivity, the 1619 Project, and the Tom Cotton op-ed. “Change does not come swiftly to the Times,” Wiedeman writes, noting that the Trump presidency “has been a unifying force for the institutionalists and insurrectionists” at the paper. Wiedeman wonders how the paper will confront these issues, which have

CNN, The Guardian, and WorldCrunch look at front-page newspaper coverage of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

Random House has released the cover image for poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, which will be published in March. The photo, shot by Gjon Mili in 1943, shows Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James, “ecstatic during the Lindy Hop.”

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who has “long been seen as one of the biggest proponents in the White House of minimizing the threat” of COVID, tested positive for the virus last week.

Facebook has an internal metric, “violence and incitement trends,” which has seen a 45 percent rise in recent days. The metric has apparently not been previously reported on. Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said that she was heartened that Facebook monitors these trends. Still, Jankowicz stressed that it was not nearly enough: “We’re talking about the broader structure of Facebook that incentivizes these communities to organize and foster offline violence. . . . I’m not sure they have a handle on it at all. It’s a structure that they’re relying

CNN’s election night coverage used a graphic that referred to voters who are not Latino, Black, Asian, or white as “something else.” The Native American Journalists Association has responded that the network’s language “continues the efforts to erase Indigenous and other voters” and note that “being Native American is a political classification—not merely a racial background.” NAJA is demanding a public apology from CNN and proposes a meeting with senior editorial staff “to discuss how to improve the network’s coverage of Indian Country.”

The New York Times’s Miami bureau chief, Patricia

The former coeditor of n+1, Nikil Saval, has been elected to represent the first district in the Pennsylvania State Senate. The New York Times Style section covered Saval’s candidacy in May.

At The Nation, D. D. Guttenplan reports on progressive activists in Pennsylvania: “Let the record show that if Joe Biden wins here, he was carried to victory on the backs of the Latinx and immigrant activists in Make the Road, the young Green New Deal enthusiasts in the Sunrise Movement, and the self-organized collection of mostly Bernie Sanders alums who provide the muscle behind Pennsylvania Stands Up.

The London Review of Books is hosting a Twitter takeover for election night. From 5 PM to 3AM EST, contributors including Merve Emre, Stephanie Burt, Lauren Oyler, and Christian Lorentzen will tweet from the LRB’s account at will.

Today, The Nation’s justice correspondent, Elie Mystal, will be “keeping an eye on the news and trying to keep you informed about challenges to people exercising their vote.” The “Election Day issue-spotter log” will be updated in real time here.

Following a baffling tweet from Hillbilly Elegy author J. D. Vance about daylight saving time and fertility, Belt Publishing

Yesterday, Jewish Currents editor David Klion posted a profile of Emily Ratajkowski, written by Thomas Chatterton Williams and Valentine Faure, that ran in the French edition of Marie Claire. A translation of the article has Williams describing Ratajkowski as having been “blessed with the most perfect breasts of her generation.” Williams also expresses surprise at the fact that Ratajkowski has read Roberto Bolaño. Ratajkowski herself has weighed in: “I really hope this will be the last of my ‘she has breasts AND claims to read’ profiles/interviews. Lots of levels of gross/embarrassing aspects

The Black Writers’ Guild has published a letter, signed by 101 members, “in support of antiracist writers and freedom of speech without misrepresentation” in response to recent comments made by UK Minister of Equalities Kemi Badenoch. For The Guardian, Sian Cain reports that Badenoch claimed some best-selling authors of antiracist books “actually want a segregated society.” In their letter, Guild members write that Badenoch’s allegation “is not only clearly false but dangerous” and call on the government to ensure ministers “act with a duty of care.”

Wear Your Voice, a digital magazine by and

Bernardine Evaristo, the 2019 Booker Prize winner, selects six novels for Penguin UK’s “Black Britain: Writing Black” series. The new editions of books by Jacqueline Roy, S. I. Martin, C. L. R. James, Nicola Williams, Judith Bryan, and Mike Phillips will be published in February 2021.

At Jewish Currents, Jess Bergman writes about Susan Taubes and her novel Divorcing, which is based on Taubes’s own separation from her husband Jacob and is newly back in print from New York Review Books. In the novel, Bergman notes, the uncoupling happens early, and “the ongoingness implied by the title’s gerund

Daniel Menaker, author and longtime editor for the New Yorker and Random House, passed away Monday at age seventy-nine. Over the years, he worked with Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Alice Munro, V. S. Pritchett, and the formerly anonymous author of Primary Colors, a roman à clef of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. Menaker’s final work, a recently completed book of poems about having cancer during the pandemic titled Terminalia, will be published and distributed this fall by Portal Press and n+1.

The twenty-second annual Southern Music issue of Oxford American is available for preorder and

In their Power Issue, the New Yorker has published a lengthy excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land, about his administration’s health care reforms.

At the New Republic, Tope Folarin discusses what it means that writers of color are walled off from “a genre that critics seem to constantly write about and whose practitioners are held up as the preeminent voices of their generation?” In a discussion of the whiteness of what critics and publishing houses deem autofiction, Folarin argues that the genre would “obviously benefit immensely” from stories about people

Poet Diane di Prima, author of Revolutionary Letters and many other books, has died.

On October 16, Delhi Police assaulted Ahan Penkar, a journalist on staff at The Caravan, at a police station while he was reporting on the alleged murder and rape of a fourteen-year-old girl. Now, Amitava Kumar—author of many books, most recently Every Day I Write the Book—has responded to the attack with a poem.

For the New York Review of Books’ special election issue, Jacqueline Rose dwells on “The Pleasures of Authoritarianism”: “No point . . . asking how bad it can get, how far they are willing to go, or