Omnivore
Deal that aims
Patrick Barry (Michigan): The Rule of Three. Greece and Macedonia have signed a deal that aims to settle a decades-long dispute over Macedonia’s name. Alexis Tsipras deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Catherine Rampell on how Trump’s tariffs are already backfiring. “Why can’t we just do it?”: Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes. Cheryl Wischhover on how soccer players’ hair became so influential. Matt Ford on the consequences of the Supreme Court’s punt on gerrymandering. Joseph Heath
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Paper Trail
Journalist Moira Donegan is writing a book. Her agent Monika Woods confirmed to Page Six that “Moira is working on a book following in the tradition of her sharp, insightful work on gender and feminism today.” VIDA Women in Literary Arts has released the 2017 VIDA Count, a report that its authors say has taken …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
You Say You Want an Evolution
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big hit and ended up the highest-grossing film of 1968. It was especially popular with acidheads and pot smokers, science geeks, budding filmmakers, and people under forty in general. The critics in New York, however, all hated it (except for Penelope Gilliatt in the New Yorker), and it had not done well in preview screenings with studio execs and celebrities, who found it boring and confusing. Those preview screenings and early reviews have become part of the film’s legend. People love to remember how the snobs got it wrong. … - Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
by Dorthe Nors
Interviews
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s memoir, Sick, is a deeply powerful and harrowing odyssey through the most profound mysteries of mind and body, as Khakpour explores the roots of a chronic illness that has no clear beginning or end.
…- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- In nineteenth-century America, the word progress signaled limitless expansion and …
- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- Louis XIV would seem to offer a natural opening for an exegesis of seventeenth-century …
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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