Nick Hilden

@EmmaMAshford The stupidest journalists get the best journalism jobs

I am sometimes, even often, wrong. But I am confident I am rarely this wrong.

Chatted w/ @aiww for @inthesetimesmag "Art is almost the only remaining possibility for spiritual activity and thinking beyond survival and competition." inthesetimes.com/article/ai-wei…

@toomuchistrue There is the Writers Talking Writers series at Publishers Weekly... publishersweekly.com/pw/article_aut…

theres obviously a lot of reasons why "literary culture" barely exists in america these days but it really doesn't help that we have an IMDb equivalent for books but no Letterboxd equivalent

@Jacob_Brogan 100%. And we can't depend on the ownership class to provide the platforms anymore because literacy threatens their political project. We need to start building our own cultural platforms, and I'd be happy to collaborate with my fellow book/art geeks! open.substack.com/pub/seriousmoo…

We need to read more and talk about books more. Our traffic, which was actually quite good on the whole, especially relative to the general decline of newspaper audiences across the board, attests to the need for that.

The Washington Post is eliminating many sections. Book World, my section, is among them.

My latest for @VanityFair - a chat with @BernieSanders about why we should all run for office and how to fight oligarchy. vanityfair.com/news/story/ber…

“Poems are a poor payment for the blood and tears. But somewhere, somehow, in the end, they might be comforting.” —Kevin Young (@Deardarkness), interviewed by @nickhilden thebeliever.net/microinterview…

I’m very happy to publish for the first time with @AJEnglish on such an important story: @aiww and the lost backpack — a tale of exile, memory, and bureaucracy. Introduction by @nickhilden Read more ⬇️ aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/9…

New for @AJEnglish "The California Water Wars...pitted the public against private business interests and set the stage for a century of conflict over the state’s most contested resource." shorturl.at/5BlaW

FACT CHECK: @JDVanceclaims “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” False: judges interpret what is or is not a legitimate use of power. This is a key aspect of the US system of checks and balances. @channeldraw / @nickhilden

My latest for @NautilusMag - interview w/ @carlzimmer about his excellent book on the history of aerobiology and the "invisible zoo" all around us. nautil.us/life-in-an-atm…

My latest for @AJEnglish is disturbingly timely amidst all the Forest Service firings. Lives on the line: Low pay has US wildland firefighters quitting aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

FACT CHECK: @JDVance claims “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” False: judges interpret what is or is not a legitimate use of power. This is a key aspect of the US system of checks and balances. @channeldraw/@nickhilden

FACT CHECK: @realDonaldTrump claims he is delaying his tariffs against Canada bc he made a border security “deal” with @JustinTrudeau . In reality, this agreement was struck in December 2024 while @JoeBiden was president A new collaboration between @channeldraw and @nickhilden

My latest for @AJEnglish - Bowie’s Berlin: Up against the wall "Now, nearly 35 years after the Wall fell, with old divisions cropping up once again in Germany and the wider world, the story of Bowie and the Berlin Wall suggests important lessons..." aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

The outpouring of love for David Lynch should remind that you don't have to compromise your weirdness to be appreciated.

I am a space nerd and my latest for @AJEnglish speaks to that: "Sanctuary on the Moon is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves." @SanctuaryOnMoon aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

For the latest in my Writers Talking Writers series at @PublishersWkly Ben Okri (@benokri) on Christopher Okigbo Katie Kitamura (@katiekitamura) on Natalia Ginzburg publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

My latest for @AJEnglish - The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer “I have not only the right but the duty to carry a gun...” he wrote to Ginsberg in January 1951, 10 months before shooting his wife. aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

My latest for @AJEnglish - The US soldiers returning to Vietnam in search of mass graves: “Just the chance to go back and do something. I wouldn’t call it closure … my daughter called it ‘closing the circle’. That’s a good description.” aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

@DespegarMx @shakira @DespegarMx is a scam. When I paid for a ticket they gave me the wrong one, then they said I needed to pay more money to get the right ticket. I paid, they did not correct the problem, and now they are saying there is nothing they can do.