Jordan Himelfarb

Thanks @devellix and @DeccanHerald for this thoughtful essay on my book, Interregnum.

A beautiful piece about my book, Interregnum, (and more) by @louisahthomas

Jordan Himelfarb's INTERREGNUM was highly praised in @NewYorker this weekend! ♟️🧠 "Stories like the one that Himelfarb tells are reminders that the thing we really care about is not the end result." Check it out: newyorker.com/sports/sportin…

“Lately, it has been hard not to feel a little cynical, or even nihilistic, about the prospects of human beings in the age of A.I. Why play chess, if a computer always wins?” Louisa Thomas writes. “The beauty of chess goes beyond logic; it includes desires, ideas, and feelings. That is the game’s difficulty, too.” Read more about the new age of chess. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ogScNV

My book in The New Yorker. A dream.

Top players grapple with burnout and anxiety. Cheating scandals roil the game. Elite chess is in the grip of a mental health and integrity crisis. Can the game sustain trust in both its players and itself? Journalist @JordanHimelfarb explores: thewalrus.ca/the-stress-of-…

Thank you @prempanicker and thank you Sharda Ugra and @htTweets for this kind review. Interregnum is out April 21.

♟️Interregnum: Inside the Grueling and Glamorous Battle to Become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. @JordanHimelfarb What happened when Magnus Carlson stopped competing the world chess championship? An intriguing look at a new era in top level chess. 13/x

Daniel Naroditsky’s death exposes an existential threat to chess, writes Jordan Himelfarb time.com/7340438/daniel…

@althiaraj Thank you, Althia!

Fantastic writer, great boss, beautiful person. Congrats @JordanHimelfarb !

This was fun. thestar.com/opinion/my-dad…

In Singapore, I saw up close the agony and ecstasy of world-championship chess. thestar.com/news/world/wor…

As threatened, I wrote about the imminent collapse of Red Lobster, for the @TorontoStar. Because some of us don't have memories of the Combray countryside, and our nattering aunts, and the perambulations of an "M. Swann." Some of us have chain eateries. thestar.com/opinion/if-red…

@NomiClaireLazar New campaign slogan: “There’s no I in Nom”?

We are hiring a team editor for our growing Opinion department at the Star. If you're interested in talking about ideas every day, and helping to curate & edit thought-provoking opinions, get in touch. amckeen@thestar.ca jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Torstar/743999…

I was thrilled to commission Douglas Gibson to write a tribute to Alice Munro: As Alice Munro's longtime publisher, I had two important jobs thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

@swanmichaels It makes me very happy that this silliness lives on in your mind.

My daughter (this child) and her mother are the only people I’ve met who say they’d plug into Nozick’s experience machine.