Laila Lalami

@lailalalami.bsky.social

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Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant.

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Nothing says we're in a fight for democracy like [checks notes] putting Jamie Dimon on the ticket.

A NYT map of the campus college protests in the U.S. The police have made 800 arrests so far across the country. www.nytimes.com/article/pro-...

Harvard Yard today.

Took a break to go see @kellylink.bsky.social in convo with @paultremblay.bsky.social at Harvard Bookstore tonight, and returned with this beauty!

Sale alert! Get a copy of The Other Americans wherever ebooks are sold.

Quite a week in Islamophobic punditry.

"If I must die," by Refaat Alareer, who was reportedly killed by the IDF today in Gaza.

Look up. [Fall leaves, Boston.]

If you find yourself in Cambridge, please come to the second of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Norton Lectures, after which he and I will be in conversation. Tickets free through the Harvard box office. mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/norton...

My God.

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Wild story of how a former member of the Bloods got into the fire mitigation business in New York. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/nyregion/fire-truck-chasers-gangs-nyc.html

Nothing better than starting the day with Morocco's win at the world Cup!! Onto the Round of 16!

What are you reading these days? What’s good? I’m about halfway through this, and enjoying it so far.

The planet is boiling and the super rich are running off to remote bunkers to recreate the Island of Dr Moreau.

Call me crazy but I think “ruffling the feathers of corporate America” is part of Lina Khan’s job as FTC chair.

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