Benoit Denizet-Lewis

YOU’VE CHANGED has a cover! A book for anyone who’s ever tried to shed an old skin—or watched someone else do it and thought, "Really?" It’s about people chasing transformation, others denying they’ve even jiggled their ideological thermostat, and what change looks like in an age of political derangement, tech disruption, and psychic despair. It’s about how much of what we “know” about change is wrong. Thanks to everyone who talked to me over the last six years: psychedelic reality benders, name-changers, gender and sexuality reimaginers, political team-hoppers, octogenarian personality shifters, reformed killers, change-obsessed psychologists, and my dad—a breath and meditation teacher who once wrote a newsletter on the “art and science of self-transformation.” (Apple, meet tree.) Out April 28 from @WmMorrowBooks and (with a different cover) @PenguinUKBooks. Pre-order link in bio.

We live in a time where Indiana won a national title in football and has lost seven straight to Northwestern in basketball

Dogs cursing you with awareness.

@westlotpirates Exciting times!

LETS. EFFING. GOOOOOOOO!!!!!

@hawk111 @jkirchick @secupp @jnoisecat @TomJunod @deborahsolo Thank you Mr. Hawkinson 🤙

@BenoitDLewis @jkirchick @secupp @jnoisecat @TomJunod @deborahsolo Mr. Denizet-Lewis does it again! His insights and thorough research are treasures.

Thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert, @jkirchick, and @secupp for their kind words about YOU’VE CHANGED, my book about what it means to change—and who gets to claim it. More early praise from @jnoisecat, @TomJunod, @deborahsolo and others at link in bio. Preorder wherever you buy books

@_mattking @jkirchick @secupp @jnoisecat @TomJunod @deborahsolo Thank you Matt!!!

@BenoitDLewis @jkirchick @secupp @jnoisecat @TomJunod @deborahsolo Love to see it! Can’t wait for this one 🙏

@M_Shelton33 I was screaming at the coaches through the tv (always a useful exercise) to kick it out of bounds

Kick out of bounds gives Minnesota the ball at their own 35. Better to do that every time today than kick to Perich, which they've done SIX TIMES. Absolutely mind numbing special teams strategy

@TimDoyle00 👏👏👏

I’m proud to announce I’m the new studio host for college basketball this season on TNT.  The fun starts this Saturday! Thank you to the entire team at TNT Sports for believing in me! Getting this wonderful opportunity reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: “Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. As of this moment, I am that second mouse!”

Dogs picking an alien’s pocket, explaining, “Welcome to Earth.”

Dogs lying tied to the trolley tracks, noting, "I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it."

@WildcatReport The replay they showed behind the play was fascinating. Basically, the referee was standing right in front of nebby player. Stone never saw him

Not sure what Stone saw there. Wilde was running a post behind Wright, a LB playing zone, and Stone just threw it right to the red jersey.

Here are the GOONERS, in a masterful @harpers piece by the brilliant @danielkolitz. Total honor to have worked on this with Daniel—hilarious, tragic, one of the few pieces I’ve read lately that actually captures “what’s going on.” Proceed! harpers.org/archive/2025/1…

★ In this probing biography, Lance Richardson combs through the life of a towering literary figure. It's a touching, unsparing, and fully rendered portrait of a complex figure of 20th-century literature. @PantheonBooks buff.ly/JDOHToT

Rly good profile by Giles Harvey on Joshua Oppenheimer and his body of work. "The wicked may escape worldly justice, but they can never escape the ravages of conscience — or so we like to tell ourselves." nytimes.com/2025/09/25/mag…

Apparently the UCLA-Northwestern game a couple weeks ago had significant Big Ten title race implications.

HOW 'BOUT THEM 'CATS

Are we in a new golden age of biography? Past @CullmanNYPL Fellow Megan Marshall thinks so, celebrating three "sumptuous" new books—two by recent Fellows Lance Richardson and Francesca Wade—and the institutions that support them (like this one!): lithub.com/are-we-enterin…

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/…

With the indictment of James Comey, it's worth revisiting this @nybooks piece (below) about the decisive role that Comey played in getting Trump elected in 2016. (I saw it myself in Ohio just before that election. “If [Hillary's] being investigated by the FBI, there’s a reason for it,” said one Obama-Trump voter.) And now Trump's managed to get Comey indicted. Such ingratitude.

🎊 We’re thrilled to announce the Class of 2026 New America Fellows! The Fellows Program selected 10 immensely talented Fellows from hundreds of applicants and will support 9 book projects and 1 film project. 🔗 Meet the 2026 #NewAmericaFellows: go.newamerica.org/new-america-fe…