Omnivore
Catching a royal wedding
From Vox, Constance Grady on the royal wedding, explained: 14 questions about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s big day, asked and answered; and how Meghan Markle is changing the princess fantasy: Yes, technically she will be a duchess. Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and royal romance: Lauren Collins on how marrying into the monarchy is rarely a fairy tale. Sarah E. Gaither: “I study biracial identity in America. Here’s why Meghan Markle is a big deal”. The fraught gender and racial politics of the
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Paper Trail
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon are editing an anthology to commemorate the centennial of the American Civil Liberties Union. The still-untitled book—which includes essays and stories from Marlon James, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, Hanya Yanagihara, and more—will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2020. At Literary Hub, Michael Ondaatje lists the books that he …Syllabi
Marriage Reimagined
Laura SmithIt is easy to view the vast and varied landscape of marriage in the present day as a radical departure from a more conservative past. But many of these marriage alternatives—including polyamory, open …- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
- The Manson Family Eric Banks
Daily Review
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
While #MeToo has exposed the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in a handful of high-profile industries, its priorities have so far reflected broader social hierarchies, giving outsize attention to the experiences of a privileged minority. In a Day’s Work shows us what … 
Interviews
Wayne Koestenbaum
Ludwig Wittgenstein noted that in representational writing, “one thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature . . . and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.” In Wayne Koestenbaum’s “trance journals”—The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) and the newly released Camp Marmalade—both the frame and the off-frame are folded into his trans-perspectival impressions.
…- While #MeToo has exposed the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in a handful of high-profile …
- As relations between Russia and the United States continue to worsen, one of the …
- Lately I’ve been preoccupied with a strange thought, what one might call a blip of …
- Origin stories are woven with many threads: Some we spin ourselves, while others we …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- Americans and Libya go way back. The opening lines of the “Marines’ Hymn” commemorate …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- The narrator and (barely) protagonist of Lynne Tillman’s smart and sleightful novel—her …
Reviews
Essay
A Poet of the Archives: On Susan Howe
Emily LaBarge
Howe has long been interested in distilling signs and symbols, whether “art objects” or words themselves, into something more revelatory. Considering riddles, lost languages, doubled surfaces, spells, magical thinking, and other elusive forms of expression, Howe sounds the depths.
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