Omnivore
Beyond criminal justice
Jason Iuliano (Princeton): Why Capital Punishment Is No Punishment at All. From Dissent, Marie Gottschalk on razing the carceral state; and Michael Javen Fortner on going beyond criminal justice reform. The criminal justice system encourages prosecutors to get guilty verdicts by any means necessary and to stand by even the most questionable convictions — can one crusading court stop the lying and cheating? David Frum interviews Barry Latzer, author of The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America
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Paper Trail
Tsehai Publishers is launching an imprint in honor of Harriet Tubman, publishing fiction, nonfiction, and academic works focused on African American issues in the US. The imprint, a joint effort with Loyola Marymount University, will publish its first book, Voices From Leimert Park, this fall. Shannon Paulus writes about the lack of independent fact checking in book …Syllabi
Reforming the Racist Criminal Justice System
John MiddletonThroughout the Democratic primaries, police brutality and systematic discrimination in the criminal justice system have become critical campaign issues, due in large part to the unrelenting pressure …- Fame's Growing Pains Natasha Stagg
- Machine Learning Andrew Zornoza
Daily Review
The Drone Presidency
The news that the United States had killed 150 unnamed individuals in a country halfway around the world with which it is not at war generated barely a ripple of attention, much less any protest, here at home. Remote killing outside of war zones, it seems, has become … - The Hero's Body
by William Giraldi - Young Once
by Patrick Modiano
Interviews
Emma Cline
A month ago, I attended a reading by Emma Cline at BookCourt, in Brooklyn. Cline's debut novel, The Girls, had just come out to breathless reviews, and the event was well attended. Cline, twenty-seven, seemed neither nervous nor overeager to please. Less-is-more is a concept she understands.
…- It’s late 2009 and Jen, our heroine, has fallen on hard-ish times: She has been …
- Heroin doesn’t sound like “heroine” by accident. The name for the drug derives …
- TO BE SEEN in a place you never were can be the most consequential event of your life. …
- Ghetto is one of those words that ring tinnily today. The put-down “He’s ghetto …
- Intrigue abounds in Missing Man, New York Times reporter Barry Meier’s account of …
- If every biography peddles the aura of the unknown with a promise of revelation, Diane …
- It’s no great exaggeration, these days, to say that the state of the white American …
- IF YOU WANTED TO BECOME an uncatchable master burglar and make a name for yourself …
- Circa August 1993, in a museum in the Netherlands, I had what Adam, the narrator of …
- After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, online activists produced …
Reviews
Essay
"A Ted Hughes Bestiary" edited by Alice Oswald
David Biespiel
Among the mysteries of the strange animals that appear in A Ted Hughes Bestiary—a compilation edited by poet Alice Oswald of his writing about animals real and invented—is how often these creatures strike me as anything but strange. Taking one of his great plunges into the waterways—those “legendary” depths “deep as England”—he encounters an otter with a “round head like a tomcat,” or a pike with its “sag belly."
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