Emily Witt

Health and Safety is out today in paperback! Thanks to everyone who has read and supported the book 💚

@jaycaspiankang Brazilians saying that ever since the national jersey was co-opted by Bolsonarism in 2013 the team has been failing, the CBF is corrupt, authoritarian-friendly Evangelicalism (Neymar) is bad for football and that they're worshipping the wrong gods.

I love the part of the World Cup that’s every country going ‘THIS IS WHY WE FUCKING SUCK AS A PEOPLE.’ The Korea crash out was A+ and cut right to cronyism and corruption. Might learn Portuguese and German just so I can check out what’s going in Brazil and Germany twitter.

@dylanmatt @stephenwitt that there would be glowsticks shows how much he's gone out with me 😂

“Mindlessly hedonistic, snobbishly insular, and punishingly cliquish though it might seem (and is), the booming Bushwick club scene has lately drawn the attention of ‘serious’ writers and thinkers.” New online: @comradesanchez on rave writing. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. nplusonemag.com/issue-11/essay…

R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne nplusonemag.com/issue-11/essay…

Track playing in the ambient room when a dude on the internet thinks the heads have never heard of Sheltering Sky youtube.com/watch?v=UyK1VY…

When you start "the world's biggest bookstore" and buy a print publication but think encouraging a culture of reading is a waste of money and kill its books section.

A Talk of the Town from an elementary school in Minneapolis newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Dispatch from my hometown, wish none of this had ever happened newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

@FedeMazza @lxeagle17 oh no am i being obtuse and performative for attention is there a website for that

@embot @lxeagle17 Yes, it actually is. The fact that you did not even bother to scroll a tweet down and do not admit your mistake tells a lot about your intellectual honesty.

@lxeagle17 ah cool, thank you for explaining that, let's keep going back and forth in a way that optimizes our engagement with a broken website instead of doing what's right.

@embot Yeah, it's really common for people to just link to the article in the reply to the tweet on X instead of linking in the original tweet, especially since links are deboosted now. That is, in fact, how it works.

@lxeagle17 Ah okay, so I'll credit him for doing that here in a random comment that nobody will read either. This is how it works?

@embot Posted in a reply to his initial tweet, 5 minutes after the post, linking to your article. x.com/DKThomp/status…

I wrote about ICE taking people off the streets of Los Angeles newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

@sidez4 thank you for reading!

@embot 😩, I'm not surprised, there are no real "publishers" in Europe anymore, but sellers... It doesn't matter, I'll read it in English (it will just be slower lol). Thank you for answering me🤟

✨My new book HEALTH AND SAFETY, out on September 17, is available for preorder✨ bookshop.org/p/books/health…

@sidez4 Alas, this book had no interest from non-US publishers, including U.K. 😢

@embot whoua,I loved "Future Sex", will there be a French version?

In this week's RA Exchange, @NewYorker staff writer Emily Witt (@embot) discusses how to protect the underground, experimenting with drugs and her new book, Health and Safety. Listen to the episode: ra.co/exchange/808

In L.A., is the military playing the role of an ordering force—or an occupying one? @embot reports. nyer.cm/HlUXET4

@brownblaze Flow