Nathan

forest green | noir editor, pitch me: nathan at lareviewofbooks dot org | all views my own

[Nathan @_ntj]

Happy to announce my story “Our Theseus” has been chosen for The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026, out today

[Nathan @_ntj]

spending 2016 in lima writing for a business mag taught me more about latam politics than umpteen years of polisci/history classes

[Nathan @_ntj]

the peruvian left joining forces to get ppk to 50.1% against keiko... you had to be there

[Orçun Selçuk @orcunselcuk]

Adding Lula 2026 to this list, defying all the odds!

[Gualter @brezhneviano]

Lula no se merecía terminar su vida política perdiendo con un personaje tan indigno. A veces, muy pocas veces, la historia es justa.

[clube do drive @clubeedodrive]

atenda a ligação, brasil

[Connor @connorokee]

Passionate from miles away

[Nathan @_ntj]

It is 2011. I am walking too close to a chainlink fence in Los Angeles and slice my arm open on a rogue piece of wire.

It is 2019. I am walking too close to a chainlink fence in Los Angeles and slice my arm open on a rogue piece of wire.

It is 2026. I am wa

[Friday Night Funk 'n Wagnalls @sreddi_515]

dressing up like a film noir detective when i go to the waffle house and audibly saying thanks for the hash dame, and keep the joe coming

[Nathan @_ntj]

i love lists like these bc there's always a glaring outlier that shows the author's bias. that dl is 20% over the max score on the army fitness test but a ~7 min mile is roughly equivalent to the army's minimum passing score for the 2-mile run pre-2020 lol

[Sam Krapf @sam_gzstrength]

a pretty good level of fitness for a guy is being able to squat 315, bench 225, deadlift 405 and run a mile in the ~7 minute mark

No elite, or crazy level of fitness but you will run circles around majority of your peers

[Nathan @_ntj]

@_richiegeorge Black undergrad graduation opened the ceremony with that but didn’t print the words for us in the program. Auditorium got 80% quieter after the first 4 lines

[Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid]

Life is fun and I love having fun

[Nathan @_ntj]

Why would you not shift this map half a mile north to show the Armenian consulate in Glendale lol

[Seorge 🇪🇺 @coaiecrete]

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, United States, has its own consular corridor along Wilshire Boulevard. Many countries share office towers between Westwood and Koreatown. The map shows 75 countries and entities, with more distant offices outside the frame.

[Nathan @_ntj]

@joolsd my assumption is the dvt only broke off after the game and return flight bc the alternative is the medical staff was only doing the bare minimum needed to ensure he played in london

[Nathan @_ntj]

happy he's gonna be okay in the short term but an nfl game and two transatlantic flights in 36 hours with a blood clot is deranged even by nfl standards, wish we had real reporting on how that went down

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

#Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, who is out for the season after several blood clots were revealed in his lungs, has been undergoing tests for days.

Before the London game, Hurts was in the hospital until 4 am and did not sleep because sleep was a risk. He played without having slept.

[Nathan @_ntj]

kinda scary how often i'm seeing people say this lol, abbott and costello literally walk you through the joke slowly multiple times before they pick up the patter. vaudeville was lowbrow popular entertainment!

[nick 🍉 @nikc_is_sad]

really uncomfortable moment in You Can See Everything where i didn’t understand the abbott and costello joke either

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

I was recently asked to contribute to a chapbook of limericks, which should be out next year. Here’s my offering, with apologies to Wendy Cope.

[degrowth entrepreneur @xoayquanh]

YCSE is a fantasy movie about making a beautiful woman watch your favorite comedy skits

[Nathan @_ntj]

ah man

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Just in: Sacramento Kings guard Ben Simmons is believed to have sustained a torn Achilles tendon at practice Sunday, sources tell ESPN. A suspected season-ending injury for Simmons after rejuvenated and impressive training camp and preseason performances.

[Nathan @_ntj]

@notsaraferdowsi Also she comes off well yeah but she’s an ultratalented actress playing a character, is it any wonder she’s the most normal and human in front of the cameras? It’s levels of meta performance all the way down, the film just doesn’t interrogate hers as much

[degrowth entrepreneur @xoayquanh]

yes, it's a particular portrait of silicon valley delusion, and one done in a way not really seen before. shows how captivating it can be despite its open manipulativeness and deceit