Yoel Noorali

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[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Everything Is Totally Fine and Joe Dunthorne's various novels are among the funniest books I've read. Here are some nice things Joe and @zacsmithtweeto said about The Kingdom, under barely any duress. For the love of god, please preorder it: https://t.co/fE24sFqYXr

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Wrote a new short story called Karaoke for Die Quieter Please. Features some porn and Richard Brody, in about equal measure. You can buy it here: https://t.co/bZmwIEq01V Thank you!

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

@ftweekend However, I’d like to immediately retract my remarks regarding Sonic Youth, who I now plan to continue pretending to enjoy for many decades to come.

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

New @ftweekend piece is about the art of noise busting. Features Charlotte’s usual cameo and in his first uncredited (in utero) cameo my new son Vincent, pictured here ex utero at start of first five hours of despair alone with me / without Charlotte.

https://t.co/NzISNWSDLV

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

@ftweekend Always very grateful to editors but particularly to Neil O’Sullivan for his work on this, given absolutely nothing of interest happened. Astonishing persistence not to toss it out. Thank you.

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Thanks so much @ralph_jeffreys! Just resurfacing today from my first couple weeks of parenthood, covered in piss and shit, and means a lot that you didn't use your review as an opportunity to do the same as my new son.

[Ralph Jeffreys @ralph_jeffreys]

Loved reading and then reviewing @Yoelnoreally's book The Kingdom for @Lit_Review! You can have a read of it here: https://t.co/nbaYvh9qOm

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Better than read and review it, simply buy and ignore it here! https://t.co/Fd19HwQuQB

[Ralph Jeffreys @ralph_jeffreys]

Loved reading and then reviewing @Yoelnoreally's book The Kingdom for @Lit_Review! You can have a read of it here: https://t.co/nbaYvh9qOm

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Many of our best writers can't read whatsoever, let alone for pleasure:

https://t.co/4HcDdW3QkD

[n x d @nxd1979]

not according to the GOAT

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

"unpretentious (albeit very british, so maybe a little pretentious)"

a book for the patriots 🇬🇧

[zac smith @zacsmithtweeto]

posted several more little book reviews on the infamous No Future Tshirt Blog today, for those who want to know my thoughts and feelings about certain books. someday you will die

https://t.co/PGMIv9N53c

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Latest nice things said about The Kingdom. Please buy need money.

[Irish Times Culture @IrishTimesCultr]

The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali: bureaucratic madness and the absurdity of life https://t.co/dxkXTqneIT via @IrishTimesCultr

[Irish Times Culture @IrishTimesCultr]

The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali: bureaucratic madness and the absurdity of life https://t.co/dxkXTqneIT via @IrishTimesCultr

[zac smith @zacsmithtweeto]

Merry Chrismzine, everyone

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Highly unlikely that any editors except Charlie and Kieran could've been tricked into publishing 1,000+ words on my recent fertility test. We need to uphold these kinds of standards. Please enter this draw.

[The Fence Magazine @The_Fence_Mag]

Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026.

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[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Wrote a 100-word short story called The Boss:

https://t.co/kkUYKz1usH

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Readers you will love these petty, digital indignities

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

The Kingdom is included here on Tom Willis' list! For fuck's sake buy it!

https://t.co/XVwJzUO7m7

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Introduced by @tanjil_rashid_

This time last year, I was experimenting with a career in teaching. Schools offer an amazing insight into the future of the written word. Books were once the most natural, most common and most important objects in a school, but today they have receded from school life. Schooling is now mediated not by the page but the screen. Of the dizzying number of wonderful books published each year – and recommended in our “Books of the year” feature – few will likely reach the eyes of young people.

This was the year people started fretting about the consequences of this for what has historically been our book-oriented. A year ago, in the OECD’s once-in-a-decade skills survey, we learned that adults across the developed world are becoming less literate. According to the National Literacy Trust, enjoyment of reading among young people fell this year to its lowest ever recorded level (surveys began in 2005). Amid all this, the one book that seemed to find itself more, not less, read was Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, which had argued in 1985 that declining literacy posed a threat to democracy.

Whatever side you might think you’re on, you’re actually on the same side: the one that says, “We are passionate about the reading life!” That’s why, at the New Statesman, we haven’t just reviewed books in 2025; we’ve reflected on why they matter. There’s still so much life in literature. Our list of the year’s best books, selected by luminaries from Julian Barnes to Slavoj Žižek, speaks to that vitality, and for the first time this year we have also inaugurated a New Statesman fiction book of the year and nonfiction book of the year.

Read our cover story to find out what they are:

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

🚨New nice thing said about The Kingdom, this time by Sam Lipsyte 🚨

His extremely funny novel Home Land inspired the format of one of the stories from the collection, The Numbers, so he’s to blame him if you hate it.

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Everything Is Totally Fine and Joe Dunthorne's various novels are among the funniest books I've read. Here are some nice things Joe and @zacsmithtweeto said about The Kingdom, under barely any duress. For the love of god, please preorder it: https://t.co/fE24sFqYXr

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

Use the code "blow-up" to get cheaper tickets, which will also come with a copy of my book and, more importantly, five hours to drink in the club afterwards.

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

Reading in London on Friday night I'm not sure where . . .

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

New Kingdom ad just dropped 😎

#booktrailer

[Yoel Noorali @Yoelnoreally]

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[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

NHS gets go-ahead to make thousands of redundancies https://t.co/u9WsevBM7n

[sarah haque @sarahsjahan]

brings me no pleasure to say it but this excellent piece about NHS-sanctioned ejaculation is my favourite thing in the issue