Emily Witt
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Blind, but Not Mute October 14, 2024
Progressivism is a mental disorder—that, at any rate, is the verdict one is tempted to reach upon finishing Emily Witt’s striking new memoir, Health and Safety: A Breakdown.Witt is a reporter for The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn. Somehow, she is...
Partying Toward A Better World With Emily Witt October 09, 2024
A few Fridays ago, I went to a reading at Paragon to celebrate the release of Emily Witt’s new memoir Health and Safety: A Breakdown, out now from Pantheon. It’s a place I'd been many times, usually to dance under lights and fog on its checkered floo...
The First Great Memoir of the Trump Years September 17, 2024
Emily Witt didn’t set out to write the first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency, the beginning of the pandemic, and the radical moral and political shifts that happened in America between 2016 and 2020. Instead, sh...
Sex, Drugs, Raves and Heartbreak September 13, 2024
The “breakdown” in the subtitle of Emily Witt’s haunting new book, “Health and Safety,” isn’t hers. It belongs to Andrew, her boyfriend of four years; he started behaving erratically when pandemic lockdowns in 2020 put an end to the underground party...
A Mesmerizing New Memoir September 05, 2024
Near the end of her brilliantly written new memoir Health and Safety: A Breakdown, author Emily Witt offers this observation: “I knew people close to me—especially those who had not understood this season of my life from the outset—could look for a c...
