Omnivore
Interfering in the Mueller probe
Benjamin Wittes goes behind James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty. James Comey isn’t the hero we deserve — but he’s the hero we need. Republicans are actively interfering in the Mueller probe to protect Trump. Mitch McConnell is inviting a constitutional crisis. Trump’s assault on the rule of law is working. Can Trump pardon his way out of the Mueller probe? Josh Marshall: “Cohen-ology pays off after all”. It might not matter whether or not Michael Cohen flips on Donald Trump. Why do Trump’s defenders
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Paper Trail
Parkland shooting survivors and siblings David Hogg and Lauren Hogg are writing a book with Random House. #NeverAgain, which includes a foreword by Parkland student Emma González, will detail the movement’s purpose and challenges as they attempt to convince lawmakers to enact new gun control legislation. #NeverAgain will be published in June. The shortlist for …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
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
In 1977, the school district of Kansas City, Missouri, sued the state of Missouri for supporting segregation. Kansas City students were largely black; suburban schools educated significantly whiter populations. The government’s districting policies, the suit alleged, … 
- Motherhood
by Sheila Heti
Interviews
Wayne Koetenbaum
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.
…- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- In a country whose literary heritage includes the likes of Gone with the Wind and …
- I OF THE FEW real-life intrusions into The Solitary Twin, the final novel by Harry …
- February’s test launch of Elon Musk’s new Falcon Heavy rocket was probably the most …
- “Shalamov’s experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own,” Aleksandr …
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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