Omnivore
Tip the balance
Michael Gaddis (UCLA): An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences. In Turkey’s watershed election, it’s the Kurds who could tip the balance. National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication. Trump’s latest attack on Democrats echoes a conspiracy theory from the fringes of the Internet. Melania Trump plays the role of medieval queen: The first lady’s intervention to reverse the administration’s family-separation policy fits a long historical
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Paper Trail
The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander is joining the New York Times Opinion section. In a statement, editorial page editor James Bennet called Alexander “a powerful writer, a fierce advocate for a more just world and a deep believer in open-minded, searching debate over how to achieve it.” America Ferrera is editing an anthology …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
Kudos
Faye has just boarded an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her middle life, begins. She boarded, after lunch with a billionaire, another airplane at the start of the first novel, Outline. She was reading a spam e-mail from an astrology service predicting “a major transit . . . in [her] sky” when the second, Transit, began. Passenger flight explains these incredible novels. … 
Interviews
Cheston Knapp
The word essay comes from a French word meaning “to try,” But thinking of an essay as simply an exploratory effort diminishes the form’s deep tradition—one worthy of serious study, With his debut collection, Up Up, Down Down, Cheston Knapp exhibits both a studied mastery of the form and a reverence for its artistry.
…- SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL is Godard at his worst—full of fumbled “experiments,” pompous …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- SOON AFTER MUHAMMAD ALI posed as a martyr, the country got a real one. The Reverend …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- 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 …
Reviews
Excerpt
Excess—The Factory
Leslie Kaplan
Below is an excerpt from Leslie Kaplan's 1982 fiction of the French factory revolts. For more on the book, recently released in an English edition (translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap), see Jason E. Smith's review in our special summer issue, 1968 Now.
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