Omnivore
Message for Democrats
Republicans don’t own patriotism anymore: The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago — and putting a liberal spin on it. David Atkins on why abolishing ICE is serious policy. Kathleen Frydl on why we should abolish ICE — and the DEA too. A good formula for losing the 2018 election: The “Abolish ICE” slogan hands Republicans an opportunity on an issue where they ought to be entirely on the defensive. Don’t abolish ICE: It’s a foolish, losing message for Democrats — in
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Paper Trail
Longreads has an interview with former New York Times staff critic Nate Chinen, who “might have been the last full-time jazz reviewer at any American newspaper.” In his new book, Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, Chinen looks at the twenty years he spent writing about live music, and argues that jazz has recently …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
Country Music USA
Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried accountants chewing Nicorette in Chevy Tahoes, not railroad linemen spitting Copenhagen through the shot-out windows of a Ford F-150. Their assimilation worries them, and they sometimes … 
- Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft
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.
…- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- EVEN BY THE TURBULENT standards of the 1960s, Eldridge Cleaver’s metamorphosis into …
- SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL is Godard at his worst—full of fumbled “experiments,” pompous …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried …
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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