Omnivore
The 2020 Democratic presidential field
From 538, which offices are good stepping stones to the presidency? Looks like the 2020 Democratic presidential field could be the largest ever. Everyone’s running — and that could be dangerous for the Democrats. How do Democrats beat Trump in 2020? Barack Obama has some ideas. Bill Sher on how to choose the most electable Democrat in 2020. Nancy LeTourneau on presidential candidates and the “scandal test”. Amy Klobuchar’s treatment of staff isn’t just a 2020 story. Why Elizabeth Warren needs to
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Paper Trail
Lauren Elkin is working on a new book. Art Monsters: On Beauty and Excess will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. The publication date has not been set, but the manuscript is due in 2020. Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian talks to The Guardian …Syllabi
Love Letters
I’m not the first, and certainly won’t be the last, person to unhelpfully ask, “Why doesn’t anyone write letters anymore?” Some of the best and most interesting writing has been done for an audience …- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
Daily Review
The return of Andrea Dworkin’s radical vision
Even before her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about than read. She had become less a public thinker than a symbol, an embodiment of feminism’s missteps and excesses. The right parodied her with the viciousness reserved for misogyny, mocking her overalls, frizzy hair, and excess weight. The left aggressively disavowed her, with other feminists going out of their way to contrast her opinions with their own. … 
- Mothers
by Chris Power
Interviews
Sam Lipsyte
Anyone familiar with Sam Lipsyte's work knows to expect somersaults of sentences, language twisted line after line into laugh-inducing poses. In his new novel, Hark, those poses have names: “Ithaka, Persian Rain, Moonlight Diana Number Three, Wheel of Tartars.” But this isn't pilates—it’s a form of self-actualization called “mental archery,” propagated by a man named Hark Morner.
…- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
- In life, we tend to dislike those who “like the sound of their own voice.” And in …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- When did Facebook start to seem evil? Was it last March, when United Nations investigators …
- Victor Tausk was one of the more restless of the many bright young men and women …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- In his recent book New Dark Age, James Bridle describes the current internet era as …
- LIKE MUCH OF THE READING WORLD, I rejoiced when Marlon James published his third novel …
Reviews
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More, More, More
Greg Grandin
With his eye on the longer game, Ronald Reagan hedged against the nativists then filling Republican ranks. Even as his administration was carrying out workplace raids that critics were comparing to Operation Wetback in the 1950s, he bet the party’s fortunes on courting the Latino vote. “Hispanics are Republicans,” Reagan once said, on the idea that they were inherently conservative, “they just don’t know it."
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