Omnivore
More puzzled than affronted
Hanhee Lee (Sookmyung): Analyzing the Political Survival Prospects of Kim Jong-un’s North Korean Regime through the Framework of Selectorate Theory. Riin Sirkel (Vermont): Essence and Cause: Making Something Be What It Is. Montenegro more puzzled than affronted by Trump’s attention. When bilingualism isn’t obviously valuable, you have to decide what you think of the language. Meet the anti-natalists, people who believe reproduction is wrong. With fascist salutes, defenders of Spanish dictator
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Paper Trail
Chance the Rapper has purchased the Chicagoist website from WNYC, who bought the site along with Gothamist last year. “WNYC’s commitment to finding homes for the ‘ist’ brands, including Chicagoist, was an essential part of continuing the legacy and integrity of the site,” Chance said in a statement. “I look forward to relaunching it and …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,” … 
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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.
…- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- IN THE LATE 1980S, at the outset of her celebrated career, Zoe Leonard had a crisis …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- ANACHRONISM WAS THE RULE at the political conventions of the summer of 1968. It was …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- At some point after 1986, when he arrived in the United States, Amitava Kumar discovered …
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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