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, my novel HANGMAN is coming out from

@fsgbooks

in August 2023; mjbinyam at gmail dot com

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an excerpt of my novel is in the fall issue of

. it’s a slapstick tragedy about aid workers, diaspora, and a middle aged man trying to make amends with his family by talking to strangers. HANGMAN is out from

@fsgbooks

next summer theparisreview.org/fiction/7922/d

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’s “home improvement” column I wrote about the couch that dissolved my sense of self and turned me into a materialist

The Couch Had Nothing to Do with Me - The Paris Review

“The couch was me, which was part of the problem: it reflected back to me how little I knew about my own desires.”

The Paris Review

Jan 30

“I became convinced that I needed a white couch, and that everyone in my life who had ever tried to dissuade me from buying one was simply hindered by their own neurotic insecurity.” Online now,

for our next installment of Home Improvements.

The Couch Had Nothing to Do with Me - The Paris Review

“The couch was me, which was part of the problem: it reflected back to me how little I knew about my own desires.”

Before the Memphis Police Dept. releases the video of 5 MPD officers murdering #TyreNichols during a routine traffic stop, and that heinous video inevitably goes viral, I want to amplify THIS video of Tyre LIVING his best life. 🛹👑🙏🏿😔✊🏿 #JusticeForTyreNichols 🎥: Austin Dean

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Tobi Haslett

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Jan 28

Trying to remind myself that discourse doesn’t matter but it does. The DNC’s version of 2020 was, as well as an obvious cover for state violence against the poor, a way to translate the rebellion into a liberal idiom that the reactionaries are great at poking holes in

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Ill Will

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Jan 29

Messages of solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders from Exarchia, Greece.

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The Crisis of Missing Migrants

Alexis Okeowo

@alexis_ok

Jan 9

Thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East have disappeared on the journey to Europe; some are in unmarked graves in Italy. Their families never know what happened. I wrote in this week's

@NewYorker

on the crisis of the missing:

newyorker.com

What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?

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benji

@blk_blk_blk_blk

Jan 5

had covid for two weeks and fumbled the self-promotion ball but my new chapbook is out from

@uglyducklingprs

! very happy with it, lmk if you read

IT GOT SO DARK by Benjamin Krusling

Rachel Aviv’s Report From Psychiatry’s Gray Zones

Kevin Lozano

@krevinlorenzo

Dec 27, 2022

Wrote about what might be the best book of the year!!

thenation.com

Her debut, Strangers to Ourselves, asks: Who shapes the story of someone's illness?

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contributed to

's roundup of the MOST and LEAST important "events" of 2022 alongside many other, more judicious writers themorningnews.org/article/2022-t

Dec 12, 2022

this is devastating and depressing, there’s nothing like bookforum—grateful to the editors and writers who made it what it was

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Dec 8, 2022

BREAKING: New School students announced a 24/7 indefinite occupation of the university student center in solidarity with striking faculty. story

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We’re Freelancers, but We’re Striking in Solidarity with New York Times Employees

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pals on why we support, and won't scab on,

@nyguild

NYT's strike today. thenation.com/article/societ

The resurgence of American labor organizing has relied on solidarity beyond the bargaining unit—and that’s what we’re offering.

Jillian Steinhauer

@jilnotjill

Dec 7, 2022

HELLO FRIENDS, if you are a creative worker in NYC who's been wondering "how can I support all this amazing labor activity happening in the city?" — here are some ideas!

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love & solidarity to my striking former colleagues

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Paulo L. dos Santos

@plbds

Dec 7, 2022

The New School is imposing a requirement that all full-time faculty report on their work, stating that it will cut pay and health benefits for those who don't comply Leaving aside the legality of this unilateral change in our contracts, this is straight up strikebreaking (1/3)

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

@KeeangaYamahtta

Dec 8, 2022

This is a disgusting display of the abuse of identity politics. bell hooks spent almost the entirety of her adult life fighting capitalism & to invoke her work, just months after her death when she can no longer command you to stop, in yr efforts to break this strike, is gross.

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David Huyssen

@davidhuyssen

Dec 8, 2022

UPDATE ON THE NEW SCHOOL STRIKE The Provost who only 5 days ago wrote the whole university implicitly threatening undergraduates with academic punishment and signaling an intention to hire scab graders is now invoking bell hooks on the paradise of learning.

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Natasha Lennard

@natashalennard

Dec 7, 2022

Included in an email this eve from

@TheNewSchool

President Dwight McBride. So the school is “planning” to function without 87 PERCENT of its faculty in spring if they won’t provide our union

@UAW7902

a fair contract? 🤔. That’s an awful lot of scab labor. Good luck with that.

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Tiana Reid–Will I Ever Stop Smoking - OVERSOUND

Tiana Reid

@tianareid

Dec 3, 2022

i've got two poems in

@OversoundPoetry

, issue 8. you can read one of them, "will i ever stop smoking," online (oversoundpoetry.com/tiana-reid-wil) and the other, "night swim," is in print gratitude to the editors, especially

@aribanias

thank you

@ginkgogab

and the poetry workshop people

oversoundpoetry.com

TIANA REID WILL I EVER STOP SMOKING —off-season fire hydrant—slick yellow dew— ghostdance with defiance another—set of circumstances— —cystic demons, dusty sandwiches, dying again— it’s telescopic,...

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Chilled and haunted and terribly moved by this investigation by

@AvaKofman

& the cynical landscape it describes, in which people who are sick and vulnerable and dying or not dying are turned into pawns for profit

newyorker.com

How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

Blair

@__seab

Nov 18, 2022

The judge took issue with a shirt she was wearing when she was arrested that said “the struggle continues.” He advised at the end “This isn’t the West Bank. This isn’t Belfast. This is the United States of America.”

Blair

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Nov 18, 2022

Urooj Rahman was sentenced to 15 months this morning. This is a terrible city.

Notebook

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Nov 16, 2022

With THE AFRICAN DESPERATE now streaming on

@mubi

, director Martine Syms meets

Chaos Muppet: Martine Syms Discusses "The African Desperate"

to discuss art world meme-speak and theory, social gaffes and aggressions, her protagonist’s journey home, and more.

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Mythic descent and meme-theory shape the artist's debut feature, where an art school seems a claustrophobic vortex.

Natasha Lennard

@natashalennard

Nov 14, 2022

Imminent mass strike at The New School, unless the university offers a fair contract tmw. TNS' reputation rests on its progressive history & professed values - with which its treatment of workers fails to align. We proudly join this nationwide moment of academic worker struggle

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Nov 1, 2022

Extremely upsetting that rap became the dominant sound in America, that it started generating wealth, that its idols became the avatars for white people who will never love an actual black person in their lives, and all along the people who make the music kept dying brutally.

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On Bruno Latour (1947–2022) | Ava Kofman

Ava Kofman

@AvaKofman

Oct 13, 2022

I wrote about the world of Bruno Latour. (We're all living in it.)

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Facts, in Latour’s view, don’t exist “out there,” waiting to be discovered or understood. They are the hard-won products of scientific work, the result of a long and often contentious process of...

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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science (Published 2018)

Ava Kofman

@AvaKofman

Oct 9, 2022

What's a fact? Latour went about his life like a detective trying to crack this unsolved case. With a negative capability I found deeply moving, he treated everything—and everyone—as a potential clue. As he wrote to me recently, "What a circus it was!"

nytimes.com

He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today?

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How YouTube Created the Attention Economy

Kevin Lozano

@krevinlorenzo

Oct 4, 2022

Wrote about YOUTUBE! and the website's weird, chaotic, and hormone-fueled history for

@NewYorker

newyorker.com

“Like, Comment, Subscribe,” a new history of the platform by Mark Bergen, makes the case that YouTube cracked the code for turning the desire to watch and be watched into money.

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Maru Pabón

@Mepbon

Sep 19, 2022

Reminder that if you want to help Puerto Ricans recover, do not give to any fund created by the government. Many grassroots organizations like this one that you can donate to 🌹

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Taller Salud

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Sep 19, 2022

El equipo de Taller Salud está listo para responder. Tu colaboración hará que podamos ser eficientes, efectivos y rápidos en la respuesta a nuestra gente. Donate / Dona através de nuestro paypal. shorturl.at/dmuxY o visita tallersalud.com

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For

’s Entertainment issue I wrote about pleasure in looking, the afterlife of the porn wars, and how to read the scene of sex via Samuel R. Delany, Wong Ping, and

@gray_wilbank

’s “Pain and Glory”

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Rachel Aviv on the self beyond psychiatry – Charlotte Shane

Charlotte Shane

@CharoShane

Sep 14, 2022

It was overshadowed by the queen dying (one of her many crimes) but for

@bookforum

I wrote about Rachel Aviv’s (rilly good) first book and the meaning(s) of mental health at a time like this

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How Should a Patient Be?

The Paris Review

Sep 8, 2022

“The flight attendant wrapped the man’s body in blankets and put a pillowcase over his head.” From “Do You Belong to Anybody?” by Maya Binyam (

), in issue no. 241 (Fall 2022), now online and in print. theparisreview.org/fiction/7922/d

Sep 7, 2022

Real Life let me write some really weird and fun essays, and

@alexmolotkow

and

@ssiiiiiiiiik

edited them so generously. grateful to everyone there and for what they did

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Real Life

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Sep 6, 2022

Real Life no longer has funding, and is ceasing publication indefinitely. We thank all of our contributors and readers. Good night

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Sep 7, 2022

the beautiful cover is by danielle orchard. and there are so many incredible stories in the issue, by michelle de kretser, christian kracht, nancy lemann and others. grateful to be in such good company and to lidija and emily and amanda for their editing

“El Gran Movimiento” Is a Masterful Portrait of Capitalism at Work

The Nation

@thenation

Aug 25, 2022

Kiro Russo’s new film about La Paz, "El Gran Movimiento," exposes the mine as a veiled foundation of life in this South American metropolis, and in so doing, indicts industry as the core of a rotting global economic system.

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Kiro Russo’s new film takes us to La Paz, following unemployed miners, mystics, and others hoping to find solace in the shadow of a rotten economy.

“El Gran Movimiento” Is a Masterful Portrait of Capitalism at Work

Aug 25, 2022

"This gurgling enterprise is hidden twice over: First, the work is done underground, and second—like so much labor under late capitalism—it is kept at a remarkable distance from those who own and profit from its production." love this movie & review

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Kiro Russo’s new film takes us to La Paz, following unemployed miners, mystics, and others hoping to find solace in the shadow of a rotten economy.

Freelance Solidarity Project

Sam Huber

@hubersamj

Aug 17, 2022

This is a really strong agreement! Thanks and congrats to everyone at

@FSP_NWU

and

@JewishCurrents

who made it happen 🎉💐💪

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Aug 17, 2022

We're thrilled to announce @JewishCurrents' new standards for working with freelancers, established in collaboration with FSP. jewishcurrents.org/jewish-current

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Sophie Haigney

@SophieHaigney

Aug 11, 2022

In very exciting news, we are (re)launching Culture Diaries, a column which asks writers and artists and other interesting to people to document a week in their cultural consumption! Here is our first, by

Therapy without Professional Help: A Week in Los Angeles - The Paris Review

“The final category is ‘horny.’ After that, everyone goes home.”

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Aug 11, 2022

documented my cultural consumption during one of the most boring weeks of my life, when I was consumed by negative fantasies of winning the mega millions : (