Radhika Jones
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Editor in chief @VanityFair . Fmr @NYTimes , @Time , @parisreview , @moscowtimes . Writer, doctor, book-club moderator, obsessive rereader
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If you know me, you’ll know how pleased I am that the book
@MayaRudolph
is reading on our Hollywood cover is… “Vanity Fair.”
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Editor Me: that comma after "daughter" is sad for Tiffany.
At 9:00 P.M.
@CNN
, of all places, is doing a Special Report on my daughter, Ivanka. Considering it is CNN, can't imagine it will be great!
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I delivered my first child, a doctoral dissertation in English literature, in 2008, and my second child, a human, in 2014. You may call me Dr. Jones. And I will call her Dr. Biden.
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I edited that week's
@TIME
cover story on Kate Winslet by
@MarkHarrisNYC
, and can confirm it is real!
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This is “The Great Fire,” a special issue of
@VanityFair
edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
V.F.'s September issue is here. Featuring Breonna Taylor’s story through the words of her mother, an oral history of the historic days after George Floyd's death, a portfolio of creatives & visionaries who capture the spirit of the moment, and more:
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We’ve been hard at work on this. Can’t wait for you to see it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates will guest-edit V.F.’s September issue—a special edition exploring art, activism, and power in 21st-century America. The issue will also feature more than 40 prominent creators, including Ava DuVernay, Bomani Jones, Jesmyn Ward, and more.
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I'll miss my
@nytimes
colleagues tremendously. It's been a privilege to be part of Dean Baquet's newsroom.
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I'll especially miss
@pamelapaulNYT
and the
@nytimesbooks
desk, outrageously well-read people with great taste in snacks.
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So delighted to be joining the NYTimes books team! And so grateful to my colleagues at Time for 8 years of first-rate journalism & karaoke.
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We paged through
@michikokakutani
's archive to gather these gems — prophetic, powerful and just plain fun.
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Thank you,
@michikokakutani
, for nearly four decades of service to readers of the New York Times, and readers everywhere.
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CNN just did a little history of Trump's remarks on women and it made Mitt Romney's binder full of women look like a feminist manifesto.
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“I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking, ‘Hmm, maybe I could run for political office.’”
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Our pilot, explaining short delay: "As many of you may know, there is an exercise of first amendment rights happening in the terminal…"
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I have a sort of Midsummer Night's Dream feeling, as if any number of things might be undone tonight.
#Moonlight
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Thrilled to share our new cover (1/2)
Presenting our July/August cover star:
@ViolaDavis
. The Oscar winner—who’s set to star as Michelle Obama and blues legend Ma Rainey—talks to
@SoniaSaraiya
about her journey out of poverty and into the deeply troubling Hollywood system.
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Her first two years have been well spent. Our eyes, and hers, are on what's next.
@AOC
by
@michelleruiz
, photographed by
@Tyler_Mitchell_
in
@VanityFair
.
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They're like, Meryl, you're gonna follow Bill Clinton, and she's all, ok no problem.
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A year ago.
TIME’s new cover: The perilous fight. How national anthem protests led by Colin Kaepernick are fueling a debate
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John Homans was the kind of editor every editor aspires to be. I feel so lucky to have worked with him
@VanityFair
. We will miss him terribly.
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First time a future presidential nominee's water breaking is mentioned at national convention.
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I wrote about NYC and all the memories it holds, to accompany a new suite of photographs by Mark Seliger.
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These nights are my reward for the hours I've invested in Trollope's parliamentary novels.
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Twice, actually.
Trump: "We are part of a movement. I've been on cover of Time five, six times in last six months. Is it crazy?"
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For International Women's Day, the first woman to appear on the cover of
@TIME
, in 1923:
http://t.co/GiC0R49vYC
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"I love you and I’m so proud of you and you’re definitely making a difference" —Jazz Jennings to
@Lavernecox
#TIME100
http://t.co/uM4CIxBwwd
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Congrats to
@jackdickey
on his first
@TIME
cover! The Power of
@taylorswift13
http://t.co/A8QgzcY6nN
http://t.co/ozQ9ZVdTzU
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For further reading today:
@DrIbram
's history of race and racism in America in 24 influential books.
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and my editor’s letter, a look at
@vanityfair
’s past, present, and future (with cameos by Thelonious Monk and my dad) (2/2)
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It was a joy to revisit Kazuo Ishiguro's complete works and review his new novel, "Klara and the Sun" (published today), for
@nytimesbooks
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Welcome,
@MiriamElder
—so glad to have you on board!
Some personal news, as they say! I'm so excited to be joining
@vanityfair
as executive editor of
@VFHIVE
— it's an incredible team and an incredible moment to shape coverage of our brave new world. Can’t wait to get started next week — send news and scoops!
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For our new series "The Enthusiast" I wrote about my attachment to Agatha Christie, whose books I still can't resist
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Talked to the great
@ElvisMitchell
about the
@vanityfair
Hollywood issue, glamour, creativity, and also Thackeray!
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Delia asks the best questions.
It’s not a secret how much I’ve admired what Radhika Jones has done with Vanity Fair, but I’d like to think this entire convo could be a blueprint for how leaders in media approach institutional change, representation, and general thoughtfulness:
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How suicide prevention works (and how you know if it's working). Terrific story by
@joshsanburn
http://t.co/XiFlTAsVhD
#longreads
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This is what it was like to be edited by John Homans: “He told me why it sucked and what it needed to be, and I went ahead and rewrote it and he was, as always, totally right.”
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.
@repjohnlewis
wins Nat'l Book Award for young people's literature. He remembers being turned away from the library as a child—whites only.
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It's rare that a
#TIMEPOY
cover shows an unfamiliar face. This year is special.
http://t.co/rS5YJGVdME
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This is a wonderful thing to do. (My go-to is the "Madame Sosostris" stanza from "The Waste Land")
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I will be spending this week rewatching The Princess Bride, Superman II, and all 7 seasons of Buffy.
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"Obama says he is hoping to eventually use his presidential center website 'to widen the audience for good books'"
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Bums me out that Harry, Ron & Hermione are basically bureaucrats. Death by 1,000 cuts preferable to Avada Kedavra?
http://t.co/ZwZgmG9rFI
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Conventions are a good time to remember that if you elect someone president you have to listen to that person give speeches for four years.
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I love this cover. RT
@TIME
: Our special issue on Mandela, with tributes from Rick Stengel, Bono & Morgan Freeman
http://t.co/dfSkzF5auE
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I know the word is that Trump doesn't read much, but it really sounds to me like he's got a stack of dystopian novels by his bed.
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Took a lot of persuading to convince the balloons it was safe to come out.
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“We show up at the door with our books and ideas, our curiosity, our education, our work ethics, our determination…”
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Chelsea Clinton reads a lot. One of my favorites among her picks: Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
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And while we’re at it, where are our jet packs?!
J. D. Salinger reportedly left five new works to be released between 2015 and 2020. Where are they?
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"He recently gave his daughter Malia a Kindle filled with books he wanted to share with her…"
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Be nice if someone came on TV and said, "And now, your moment of Zen."
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Prince will play forever in the 1985 roller-rink birthday party in my mind.
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🙏🏼 please be great, please be great
Exciting adaptation news: The BBC is developing A Suitable Boy as its first period drama with a non-white cast:
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Carrie Fisher would have known what to tweet about this.
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Sometimes the occasion calls for it!
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For our Jane Austen death-versary issue, I wrote about Austen and immortality
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"I have been told…that a publishing house won’t look at my book bc they 'already have an Indian-American writer.'"
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As an editor (fmr copy-editor) I can't get over this series of parentheses: (compromising material)
(perverted)
(whom he hated)
(urination)
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Hope you enjoyed the works in progress in this issue of NYTBR as much as we did; look for more in future issues!
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Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School part-time, so it is possible to get both on your resume, just FYI.
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In my dreams, tapes will reveal that Comey got three scoops of ice cream.
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I watched this video, and Priyanka Chopra immediately became my favorite person. You try it!
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Wigs. They wear wigs.
#TheAmericans
Mr. Manafort added, “It’s not like these people wear badges that say, ‘I’m a Russian intelligence officer.’”
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"It was the ’60s. People fought. They shouted. You should have been there." Love this tribute to Jean Stein
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I'm pretty sure I edited that obit back in 2010. RIP Zsa Zsa, and we still miss you, Richard. Thanks again for filing early.
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Angela Merkel is the first individual woman to be Person of the Year since Corazon Aquino in 1986.
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I'd like to thank the CIA, the FBI & the BBC for making sure I wouldn't have to read any stories about the fiscal cliff this week.
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"There are a whole bunch of writers, a lot of them young, who are probably writing the book I need to read."
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42 years ago my parents eloped in Paris. Happy anniversary, Mum and Dad!
http://t.co/YhfhtEGr
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A portfolio from our special poetry issue: poets in action on the page
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I get one episode behind on "The Americans" and look what happens.
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The best pandora station is Rhiannon Giddens, over and out.
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David Carr's memoir was one of the first books I reviewed for
@Time
. I liked it.
http://t.co/i4ejE0CMcH
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As part of our Bolshevik Revolution centenary, Condoleezza Rice remembers the books that shaped her study of Russia
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For the record, I'd watch an Americans spinoff in which Paige just asks endless questions of her parents, who look sheepish.
#TheAmericans
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Wonderful retrospective by
@sepinwall
of his past 20 years watching TV for a living—what was on and how we saw it.
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A+ headline!
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Get it while it's hot.
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Maybe because I'm in this part of the world, but it feels like John Steinbeck might be next up for revival.
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I never thought it would happen. But if that's how the Nobel rolls, I say don't think twice, it's all right!
BREAKING 2016
#NobelPrize
in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
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Just putting the finishing touches on the 2015
#time100
. I think you guys are gonna like it.
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This story, which I so desperately needed, starts great and gets better.
British parrot missing for four years returns speaking Spanish
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