Omnivore
Arabic intellectual history
Hussein A H Omar (Oxford): Arabic Thought in the Liberal Cage. Arabic intellectual history between the postwar and the postcolonial: The introduction to Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present, ed. Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss. Nourhan Tewfik reviews The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation by Zeina G.Halabi. Orly Minazad reviews Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef. The introduction
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Paper Trail
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is writing a book. The Huffington Post reports that Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics will be a “‘no-holds-barred account’ of his political life and controversies, including his time with President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.” Let Me Finish will be …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
Homeplace
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the word “honky-tonk” dates to 1899, in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette. “A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main Street be reopened,” … 
- The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
…- ONE LEARNS very quickly that Myra Breckinridge is an unreliable narrator. Her writerly …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- SOON AFTER MUHAMMAD ALI posed as a martyr, the country got a real one. The Reverend …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- BY THE TIME COUPLES CAME OUT, John Updike had already published four novels, three …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- A grim turn of events briefly overtook the barely modulated insanity of our past …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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