Nicholas Gordon

🎧 Drops today: the ARB @NewBooksNetwork Podcast features @nickrigordon in conversation with Matthew Campbell, author of “The Man Who Stole the Gods” @PenguinBooks 👇 Available below and wherever you get your podcasts. asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-m…

🎧 Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork Podcast features @nickrigordon in conversation with Xiaobing Li, author of “China's Mahan” @USNIBooks 👇 Available at the link below and wherever you get your podcasts. asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-x…

Scoop from me: fortune.com/2026/06/17/pay…

What was originally a once in a lifetime trip has turned into a dinner party anecdote: we've been asked to leave earlier than expected as the police (and military) are taking over the resort

🎧 Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features @nickrigordon in conversation with Evelyn Iritani, author of “Safe Passage” @fsgbooks asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-e…

🎧️ Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features @nickrigordon in conversation with @PaulBlustein, author of “King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency” @yalepress asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-p…

China’s decision to block the $2 billion Meta-Manus deal shows how far Washington and Beijing are drifting apart over AI. Very good analysis here from my @FortuneMagazine colleague @nickrigordon fortune.com/2026/04/28/chi…

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features @nickrigordon in conversation with Craig Perry, author of “Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History” @PrincetonUPress asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-c…

Drop today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcasts features host @nickrigordon in conversation with Jinwoo Park, author of spy thriller “Oxford Soju Club” @dundurnpress asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-j…

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features @nickrigordon in conversation with Guido Tabellini, co-author of “Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000” @PrincetonUPress asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-g…

i was likely targeted by North Korean hackers lol:

@TheStalwart Coming in with a Star Wars deep cut starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gree_(spe…

Stock futures are gree

"If a country asks me to commit to supporting them even if the U.S. doesn’t want to, all I can say is no," Luckey told me. “I’m not willing to go to prison to sell you spare parts.”

That's not a surprising answer, but I'm left wondering how other governments feel about that, particularly as U.S. foreign policy trends in a more transactional direction. Can countries feel assured about their purchases if the U.S. changes its mind?

A few weeks ago, I sat down with Anduril founder Palmer Luckey. Finally got around to writing it up for @FortuneMagazine—though a lot has changed since (including the start of the Iran war).

Exclusive: Anthropic confirms it has begun testing its “most capable” model to date, after an accidental data leak revealed its existence fortune.com/2026/03/26/ant…

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features @nickrigordon and Prarthana Prakash @PushkinPress @PenguinIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-m…