barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025www.vogue.com/article/susa...vogue.comSusan Choi on the Sprawling Stories Behind Her New Novel, ‘Flashlight’ 000
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 20/06/2025An hour long discussion about China's stolen children and adoption with KQED radio. Some fascinating questions from adoptive parents. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...kqed.orgJournalist Barbara Demick Traces Decades of Trauma From China’s One-Child Policy | KQEDWe talk to Barbara Demick about the one-child policy’s lasting impacts on adoptees and their families in China and abroad. 030
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025"It is this unshowy, subtle approach that makes her book the very best kind of nonfiction, and Demick its peerless practitioner." Thank you. observer.co.uk/culture/book...observer.co.ukThe story of China’s banished children | The ObserverThrough the story of two families, Barbara Demick reveals how children forcibly taken from their parents were then put forward for ‘rescue’ in the west 030
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025This is the LAPD cop who (allegedly, I add, because we believe in due process) shot the Australian journalist in the leg. Look at the video. What is LAPD doing about it? #cpj 000
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Here's footage of the military parade. Look familiar? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgF... 120
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025BBC Book of the week. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...bbc.co.ukBBC Sounds - Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick - Available EpisodesListen to the latest episodes of Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick on BBC Sounds. 010
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025The Guardian did a very nice job giving you a taste of my new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.com‘Mom, am I the missing twin?’: the story of two babies separated by the Chinese state – and their emotional reunionUS couple Marsha and Al adopted a baby girl from China because they thought she had been abandoned. Years later they read about a girl whose sister had been illegally snatched by the authorities. Was ... 020
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Speaking of New York Times book reviews, I'm very excited to read that Naomi Xu Elegant's Gingko Season praised as a "superb debut novel." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...nytimes.comConversations With Emotionally Stunted Friends 000
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025New York Times today. "Demick... is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...nytimes.comSeparated as Toddlers, Raised on Opposite Sides of the World 010
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025A very courageous Chinese adoptee told me her story. Here it is: www.newyorker.com/news/america...newyorker.comThe Chinese Adoptees Who Were StolenAs thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins. 071
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialEdward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I'm honored "At the Edge of Empire" has won the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize for nonfiction from China Books Review @chinabksreview.bsky.social at the Asia Society @asiasociety.bsky.social. The prize recognizes writing on China and the Sinophone world: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2... 1235
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialEvan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives. 0116
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialGady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2025New Yorkers, come hear @barbarademick.bsky.social’s first talk about her amazing new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” at The Strand on Monday. It’s an epic story of Chinese twin sisters cruelly separated, one adopted and raised in America. Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...strandbooks.com 111
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialBianca Hillier @biancahillier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I'm nearly done reading @barbarademick.bsky.social's "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" (as rec'd by @matthewjbell.bsky.social). Fascinating and eerie to hear this story on @theworld.org with that full context so top of mind: theworld.org/stories/2025...theworld.orgNorth Korea opens for Western tourists - The World from PRXOn Thursday, North Korea let Western tourists visit for the first time since 2020. But there are ethical issues around taking a vacation in an autocratic nation. 033
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...open.substack.comTrump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her RésuméNesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience 010
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Identical twins. One Chinese, one American. How they were separated, how they were reunited and what their story tells us about China and the United States. May 22, launch event for my new book Daughters of the Bamboo Grove at the Asia Society. asiasociety.org/new-york/eve...asiasociety.orgBarbara Demick's Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Book Launch with Emily FengJoin us for the launch of Barbara Demick's latest book "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove," the story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy--one who remained in China, and the other adopt... 010
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Will the Supreme Court stop Donald Trump? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... @ruthmarcus.bsky.socialnewyorker.comWill the Supreme Court Stop Donald Trump?By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the deference typically shown to the executive branch. 000
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The Washington Post's spiked column, now online in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...newyorker.comWhy I Left the Washington PostOwner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided... 010
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Stories about Ruth Marcus ex of Wash Post describe her as a "liberal" columnist. But her writing was not about espousing a political viewpoint as much as upholding the rule of law, the foundation of any democracy. That's the tragedy here. Last column.. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you canOne by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off. 021
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialTim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Is Trump now Putin's ally? If so, why? I took a stab at this question. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...washingtonpost.comPerspective | The unanswered question of our time: Is Trump an agent of Russia?Neither former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III nor the FBI took it on. It’s crucial someone does. This is a case for super-secret mole hunters. 186
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 27/02/2025www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you canOne by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off. 000
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A description of the Kremlin press pool around the start of Vladimir Putin’s second term, from CJR. www.cjr.org/feature/what... 171284406
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialSusan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It’s not hard to see where this is going. 2115638
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Where are the students? Just walked by a very quiet Columbia campus. This is the time we really need them.... 010
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Still nothing from Students for Justice in Palestine on their Twitter account about Trump's many horrific statements about Gaza. It's like they only protest Democrats....as some of us told you last year. 3239
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialJohn Delury @johndelury.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Evan's essay on 美退中进 ages really well-- sadly. 011
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialEvan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Exactly 100 years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald saw it coming: "They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." 528767
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Ruth Marcus is essential reading. If anybody can provide guidance as to preventing the dissolution of our republic, it is her. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Can the courts — can anyone — stop Trump?Despite my expectation of mixed success in legal battles with the president, there are reasons for tempered optimism here. 000
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Predictable, but... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comWe tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and TaiwanThe AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government 010
Reposted by @barbarademick.bsky.socialGady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Exciting new book about China, America and international adoption coming this May, from the great @barbarademick.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611356...penguinrandomhouse.comDaughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick: 9780593132746 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksThe heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption—from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy, one... 0117
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 24/11/2024tehrantimes.com/news/505866/...tehrantimes.comBarbara Demick’s book about living in Sarajevo during war published in PersianTEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood” written by Barbara Demick has been released in Iranian bookstores. 020
barbarademick.bsky.social @barbarademick.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Very excited that my first book, Logavina Street, has been published in Farsi... 010
