Adam Dalva

A few years ago, I was going through a hard time. I reached out to an unlikely figure for help. Here, in ⁦@NewYorker⁩, are my Letters to Jeb newyorker.com/culture/person…

Looking forward to this conversation with Lauren Groff - join us! Tickets are available here: eventbrite.com/e/offsite-laur…

Difficult but necessary to report that an undergraduate student of mine recently and earnestly called Vampire Weekend "dad rock"

Our NBCC shortlists are here! They are the product of a year of careful reading and debate, culminating in an intense all-day meeting last weekend. I can't wait to celebrate these wonderful books at our awards ceremony at the New School on 3/26. Join us! lithub.com/here-are-this-…

This fall, I had the pleasure of re-reading Karl Ove Knausgaard’s work for the New York Times. I’m grateful for the assignment, the brilliant editing, and Knausgaard, for giving me so much to think about, as always: nytimes.com/article/karl-o…

I wrote a bit about Edward Yang's Yi Yi in this wonderful @yalereview year-end roundup - a film that I keep thinking about! yalereview.org/article/favori…

Here is our National Book Critics Circle Longlist for the Barrios Prize for Books in Translation - chaired by the fabulous Mandana Chaffa and made possible by this passionate committee of judges.

Here is our National Book Critics Circle Longlist for Nonfiction - chaired by the great Christoph Irmscher.

Here is our National Book Critics Circle Longlist for Poetry - I loved serving on this committee, which was chaired by David Woo.

Here is our National Book Critics Circle Longlist for Biography - an intrepid committee chaired by Iris Jamahl Dunkle.

Here is the National Book Critics Circle Longlist for Autobiography - a great committee chaired by Grace Talusan.

And Jonas Khemiri's characteristically brilliant "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi" is a wonderful short about brothers and time: yalereview.org/article/jonas-…

The @yalereview's new issue is here! Filled with great writing - including two exciting pieces of fiction. Nathan Englander's "What Are We Doing, What Have We Done" is a winding story about relationships and trust with an ending that will stick with you: yalereview.org/article/nathan…

Here is our NBCC Longlist for Criticism - a committee that was brilliantly co-chaired by J. Howard Rosier and Jonathan Leal.

It’s longlist week for the National Book Critics Circle Awards! I’m very proud of the passion and effort our board put into reading and discussing many, many books this year. We start with Fiction - I loved serving on this committee, which was led by Heather Scott Partington.

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New York detail: the guy who Marty Supreme is based on, Marty Reisman, regularly played table tennis in the basement laundry room of the building I grew up in, though he didn’t live in the building. He was in his seventies, intimidating and untouchable.

László Krasznahorkai! If you're looking for a place to start with his work, we ran a beautiful, discursive, surprising story of his in the @yalereview earlier this year: yalereview.org/article/kraszn…

Loved interviewing the brilliant Jonas Hassen Khemiri for Bomb: bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/…

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