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I have been named a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida.
Bloomsbury will publish my latest novel, Black Monday, in January 2027.
My essay “Toward A Short History of AI Paranoia” will appear in the Spring 2026 issue of Daedalus.
My review of Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment has been published in the New York Times Book Review.
My essay on Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris’s Palo Alto, and Sam Bankman-Fried has just been published by The New Yorker.
Congratulations to Fabio Cremonesi, winner of the Capalbio International Translation Prize for his Italian translation of my novel The Lost Language of Cranes.
On July 2nd, in Orbetello, Italy, I was given the Orbetello Book Prize “as a tribute to the author’s career.”
On July 1st, I took part in the Isola della Storie literary festival in Gavoi, Sardinia.
On June 19th, in Palermo, I was awarded the Premio Nino Gennaro at the Sicilia Queer 2022 International New Visions Film Fest.
Read my review of Andrew Holleran’s new novel on Book Post.
On October 12, 2020, I was a Jeopardy! clue.
An interview with me in my capacity as editor of Subtropics.
Delfina Vezzoli, a beloved friend and the translator of all but two of my books into Italian, passed away in November 2017. I wrote this piece for her memorial service.
Read my review of Niven Govinden’s new novel in The New York Times Book Review
Crosswords, grief, and my mother.
Francine Prose reviews Shelter in Place.
Yes, that really is me on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, talking about Alan Turing and Srinivasa Ramanujan. You can watch the episode here.
Published in The Guardian. If I could add an eleventh, it would be Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.
My essay on Larry Kramer’s The American People has been published in The New Yorker’s Page Turner blog.
writes about The Man Who Knew Too Much on Hatrack.com.
I talk about the Turing Problem with James Gleick and Janna Levin on NPR’s RadioLab.
I talk about Alan Turing’s centenary with Ira Flatow on NPR’s Science Friday.