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Among Republicans these days

Intellectual integrity is rare among Republicans these days. The governing wing of the Republican party is nearing extinction. Here’s everything Republicans could be doing to stop Trump — except they’re not doing any of it, because they frickin’ love him. Thread: “One key lesson of 2017 was that everything liberals have said about right-wing hypocrisy was true — in fact understated”. Donald Trump’s presidency is the libertarian moment. Steve Benen on why the rehabilitation of George W. Bush is


Paper Trail

The New York Times has hired Amal El-Mohtar as the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. El-Mohtar is replacing N. K. Jemisin, who has been writing the Otherworldly column for the last two years. The Observer reports on editorial shake-ups at two Tronc papers. Former New York Daily News editor in chief Jim Rich

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"We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit

Matt TurnerDuring the last election cycle, the American working class got a lot of airplay. Donald Trump’s rhetoric was a throwback to a different era of politics and a different economy. Talk of American workers

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Ultraluminous

A woman with a set of fake names—Kata, Katya, Kasia, Katushka—has returned to New York after eighteen years in Dubai. Glass towers now crowd the Williamsburg waterfront and women yell at her to get out of the bike lane. Bodega cigarettes cost fourteen dollars and smoking

Interviews

Mathieu Lindon

The human capacity for love is vast and open, yet the word love is often limited: it’s the feeling between people with shared DNA, or the volatile emotion of romance. Mathieu Lindon has experienced life-altering forms of love that defy these categories.

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Minds of the Immortals: Emily Wilson on translating "The Odyssey"

Ben Shields

“The minds of the immortals rarely change,” old King Nestor tells Telemachus in Book III of The Odyssey, That may be true, but the ways that we experience and imagine those gods change regularly, Since the sixteenth century, dozens of English-language translators have traversed the epics of archaic Hellas, and all of them have returned with their own unique account: Blank verse, couplets, and prose are all available portals into Homer.

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