Emily Witt

Staff Writer @NewYorker. Author of FUTURE SEX (2016), NOLLYWOOD (2017) and HEALTH AND SAFETY (2024).

[Emily Witt @embot]

Health and Safety is out today in paperback! Thanks to everyone who has read and supported the book 💚

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a new solo show at the Gugenheim, Taryn Simon attempts to tell the story of America through images. “Simon’s documentation of the institutional uses of photography rarely coheres into a point of view, as if, for her, cataloguing them is enough,” Emily Witt writes.https://t.co/2fD8akZjjH

[Michael Luo @michaelluo]

This is the definitive piece on what happened in Minneapolis, by @embot, who was there from the beginning and has stayed with the story long after most reporters left. https://t.co/mPw1iVfUtl

[Emily Witt @embot]

My most recent @newyorker article is about the human and moral cost of last winter's ICE surge to Minnesota. I spent all of this year reporting it and while I'm pleased to see it triggering the bots, I hope you will read it too.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Between December, 2025, and February, 2026, more than 3,000 federal immigration agents were deployed in Minneapolis—detaining nearly 4,000 immigrants, and killing two U.S. citizens. Emily Witt reports on the aftermath of Operation Metro Surge.
https://t.co/CfT8z9mJ6h

[The New Yorkerest @newyorkerest]

"Anatomy of a Siege" by Emily Witt (@embot) is our pick from the September 7, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://t.co/wNUIxU6Waj

[Max Abelson @maxabelson]

🚨 New Witt 🚨 https://t.co/j6bIKr5qW8

[Emily Witt @embot]

Did Emily Wilson just crash the LRB website?

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

lmao Emily Wilson went to TOWN on Nolan's The Odyssey https://t.co/ZYV2UERMR5

[Emily Witt @embot]

@jaycaspiankang Brazilians saying that ever since the national jersey was co-opted by Bolsonarism in 2013 the team has been failing, the CBF is corrupt, authoritarian-friendly Evangelicalism (Neymar) is bad for football and that they're worshipping the wrong gods.

[Emily Witt @embot]

@dylanmatt @stephenwitt that there would be glowsticks shows how much he's gone out with me 😂

[n+1 @nplusonemag]

“Mindlessly hedonistic, snobbishly insular, and punishingly cliquish though it might seem (and is), the booming Bushwick club scene has lately drawn the attention of ‘serious’ writers and thinkers.” New online: @comradesanchez on rave writing. https://t.co/gFlZFQBn3t

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates.

We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. https://t.co/QVRWIQDQL2

[n+1 @nplusonemag]

“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. https://t.co/iObSfCrPNM

[Emily Witt @embot]

R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne https://t.co/obnE16pH0n

[Emily Witt @embot]

Track playing in the ambient room when a dude on the internet thinks the heads have never heard of Sheltering Sky https://t.co/YBm5SrP0FL

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

I wonder how many people watching Sirat caught this reference to the Sheltering Sky (the book!).

Both incredible.

[Emily Witt @embot]

When you start "the world's biggest bookstore" and buy a print publication but think encouraging a culture of reading is a waste of money and kill its books section.

[Emily Witt @embot]

A Talk of the Town from an elementary school in Minneapolis https://t.co/LZifE4DJ8C

[Emily Witt @embot]

Dispatch from my hometown, wish none of this had ever happened https://t.co/FYA4jJlbjW

[Emily Witt @embot]

@FedeMazza @lxeagle17 oh no am i being obtuse and performative for attention is there a website for that

[Emily Witt @embot]

@lxeagle17 ah cool, thank you for explaining that, let's keep going back and forth in a way that optimizes our engagement with a broken website instead of doing what's right.

[Emily Witt @embot]

@lxeagle17 Ah okay, so I'll credit him for doing that here in a random comment that nobody will read either. This is how it works?