Benjamin Moser

💥NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY💥

For the LAST instalment of our Writers of Empire series,
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Pulitzer Prize winner, Benjamin Moser, to discuss the always divisive V. S. Naipaul

Benjamin Moser: “Ser judío y descubrirse antisionista es como salir del armario” | lamarea.com Premio Pulitzer en 2020 por su biografía sobre Susan Sontag, publica en España 'El mundo del revés. Encuentros con los maestros neerlandeses'.

'El mundo del revés' de Benjamin Moser es una buena guía artística para llevar debajo del brazo si uno visita Holanda. Ha pasado 20 años escribiéndolo, como una forma de manifestar su amor por el país que lo acogió cuando tenía 25 años.

Esto de Benjamin Moser, autor de fantásticas biografías de Lispector y Sontag, me está encantando.

We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • Articles • EQUATOR How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide

Benjamin Moser escribe un ensayo muy enojado, muy bueno, sobre crecer como judío liberal en EUA y presenciar lo que ocurre en Gaza. Me conmueve la fuerza de lo que escribe y también el dolor que confiesa.

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I've really been impressed by what I've read in Equator. The BBC piece below is essential as, to my mind, is this morally fearless piece by Benjamin Moser: www.equator.org/articles/we-...

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Revisit our conversation w/ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser on the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind. The past really does not go away!

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Benjamin Moser: “Ser judío y descubrirse antisionista es como salir del armario” | lamarea.com Premio Pulitzer en 2020 por su biografía sobre Susan Sontag, publica en España 'El mundo del revés. Encuentros con los maestros neerlandeses'.

Benjamin Moser: “Ser judío y descubrirse antisionista es como salir del armario” www.lamarea.com/2025/11/08/b...

I think muzzling Walz is “a bug not a feature” — they always muzzle anyone leftish. Anyway, it is horrific but it is on her. She was the candidate. Blaming the voters is never a good move. Millions who voted for Biden and Obama didn’t vote for her.

Well, true, and they didn’t allow us to vote in a primary. But as I have said, genocide is a red line for me and her telling people like me to shut up and get in line didn’t help. Here’s what I wrote at the time. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I refuse to vote for politicians who fund and arm genocide. Full stop.

Empathy for someone who was the number two in an administration committing genocide? I’ll save it for the victims.

Goodbye to all that I finally break up with The New York Times

Benjamin Moser on breaking up with The NY Times benjaminmoser.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...

There is a case for keeping your NYT subscription, and here is the furiously coruscating case for dropping it, by Benjamin Moser

Correct. I loathe Kamala Harris, who made a genocide possible. And correct: I do indeed blame her for losing to Trump —including because she alienated people like me who would have voted for her if she hadn’t kept telling us to shut up.

Gaza’s Flotilla and the Fault Lines of Empire As a new flotilla sets sail to challenge the siege of Gaza, let us examine the racial and imperial fault lines behind this violence, drawing on Pankaj Mishra, Benjamin Moser, and William Dalrymple.

A flotilla with 12 selfless people is bound for Gaza to break the siege. While the West looks away, Palestinians starve and die under blockade. Let's look at the fault lines of empire through Pankaj Mishra, @benjaminmoser.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ezgibasa...

Pankaj Mishra, Benjamin Moser and William Dalrymple sit on stage at the Hay Festival

🚨Live at Hay: an absolutely ferocious excoriation of Israel's conduct in Gaza from Pankaj Mishra, Benjamin Moser and William Dalrymple just concluded. I recorded the whole discussion and will see about transcribing it in full. Numerous UK venues refused to host this event.

‘They Deserve Our Contempt’: Literary Heavyweights Lambast West For Support Of Israel In Fiery Festival Appearance Three bestselling authors united to condemn the West’s support of Israel at packed-out event held on Saturday at the Hay Festival of literature in Wales. Speaking to a crowd of some 1,800 people at H...

🚨NEW: "Don’t be polite. These people are trash. They deserve our contempt." At a packed-out event on Saturday, Benjamin Moser, Pankaj Mishra and William Dalrymple eviscerated Western support of the Israeli state, calling it "the moral litmus test of our time."

The Apple in the Dark Right in those first days you could feel that there was a man on the ranch. And you could also guess that the person in charge was a woman: since despite the threat of drought and the fundamental n…

😮 New Clarice Lispector translated by @benjaminmoser.bsky.social 🎉 lithub.com/the-apple-in...

Opinion | I Live in the Europe of My American Dreams Moving there gave me access to all the other ways to see.

I love this @nytimes.com oped from Benjamin Moser - His new book, The Upside Down World: Meeting with the Dutch Masters, is coming from WW Norton this October