Susan Choi on the Sprawling Stories Behind Her New Novel, ‘Flashlight’

www.vogue.com/article/susa...

Journalist Barbara Demick Traces Decades of Trauma From China’s One-Child Policy | KQED We talk to Barbara Demick about the one-child policy’s lasting impacts on adoptees and their families in China and abroad.

An hour long discussion about China's stolen children and adoption with KQED radio. Some fascinating questions from adoptive parents.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

The story of China’s banished children | The Observer Through the story of two families, Barbara Demick reveals how children forcibly taken from their parents were then put forward for ‘rescue’ in the west

"It is this unshowy, subtle approach that makes her book the very best kind of nonfiction, and Demick its peerless practitioner."

Thank you.

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This is the LAPD cop who (allegedly, I add, because we believe in due process) shot the Australian journalist in the leg. Look at the video. What is LAPD doing about it? #cpj

Now that's a military parade!!

Here's footage of the military parade. Look familiar? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgF...

BBC Sounds - Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick on BBC Sounds.

BBC Book of the week. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Excellent quote.

‘Mom, am I the missing twin?’: the story of two babies separated by the Chinese state – and their emotional reunion US couple Marsha and Al adopted a baby girl from China because they thought she had been abandoned. Years later they read about a girl whose sister had been illegally snatched by the authorities. Was ...

The Guardian did a very nice job giving you a taste of my new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Conversations With Emotionally Stunted Friends

Speaking of New York Times book reviews, I'm very excited to read that Naomi Xu Elegant's Gingko Season praised as a "superb debut novel." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

Separated as Toddlers, Raised on Opposite Sides of the World

New York Times today. "Demick... is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

The Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins.

A very courageous Chinese adoptee told me her story. Here it is: www.newyorker.com/news/america...

I'm honored "At the Edge of Empire" has won the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize for nonfiction from China Books Review @chinabksreview.bsky.social at the Asia Society @asiasociety.bsky.social. The prize recognizes writing on China and the Sinophone world: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2...

Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives.

New Yorkers, come hear @barbarademick.bsky.social’s first talk about her amazing new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” at The Strand on Monday. It’s an epic story of Chinese twin sisters cruelly separated, one adopted and raised in America. Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...

North Korea opens for Western tourists  - The World from PRX On Thursday, North Korea let Western tourists visit for the first time since 2020. But there are ethical issues around taking a vacation in an autocratic nation.

I'm nearly done reading @barbarademick.bsky.social's "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" (as rec'd by @matthewjbell.bsky.social). Fascinating and eerie to hear this story on @theworld.org with that full context so top of mind: theworld.org/stories/2025...

People keep posting this. The overall approval is 42 percent in the Reuters story. Approval of handling economy is 37 percent. We should be better than them...

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
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Barbara Demick's Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Book Launch with Emily Feng Join us for the launch of Barbara Demick's latest book "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove," the story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy--one who remained in China, and the other adopt...

Identical twins. One Chinese, one American. How they were separated, how they were reunited and what their story tells us about China and the United States. May 22, launch event for my new book Daughters of the Bamboo Grove at the Asia Society. asiasociety.org/new-york/eve...

Will the Supreme Court Stop Donald Trump? By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the deference typically shown to the executive branch.

Will the Supreme Court stop Donald Trump?
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... @ruthmarcus.bsky.social

Why I Left the Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...

The Washington Post's spiked column, now online in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

Opinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.

Stories about Ruth Marcus ex of Wash Post describe her as a "liberal" columnist. But her writing was not about espousing a political viewpoint as much as upholding the rule of law, the foundation of any democracy. That's the tragedy here. Last column.. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Perspective | The unanswered question of our time: Is Trump an agent of Russia? Neither former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III nor the FBI took it on. It’s crucial someone does. This is a case for super-secret mole hunters.

Is Trump now Putin's ally? If so, why? I took a stab at this question.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

Opinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

quickly outpace their less-driven Muscovite peers. By 2004, then, twenty-four-year-old Simonyan was already in Moscow and working as a correspondent in the Kremlin press pool for Rossiya, the number two state television net vork with an audience of 50 million. To be picked for the Kremlin press pool is an honor but also a sign of trustworthiness. The pool is a place for the most loyal of the loyalists. To be assigned to cover the Russian president, especially for television, a reporter has to be absolutely reliable in his docility, and in his ability to ask softball questions. A year later, RIA Novosti tapped Simonyan to head Russia Today. After three months of around-the-clock

A description of the Kremlin press pool around the start of Vladimir Putin’s second term, from CJR. www.cjr.org/feature/what...

Just canceled my Amazon prime account.....

It’s not hard to see where this is going.

Where are the students? Just walked by a very quiet Columbia campus. This is the time we really need them....

Where are the students now? When we really need them!!! The campuses are too damn quiet.

Still nothing from Students for Justice in Palestine on their Twitter account about Trump's many horrific statements about Gaza. It's like they only protest Democrats....as some of us told you last year.