Omnivore
The founding value of human rights
Pawel Lukow (Warsaw): A Difficult Legacy: Human Dignity as the Founding Value of Human Rights. Harold A. McDougall (Howard): Humans, Hierarchy, and Human Rights. Joe Braun (Maryland): Rights on the Left and Right: How Ideological Predispositions Affect Human Rights Attitudes. Joe Hoover reviews The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations by Benjamin Gregg. Ian Hurd (Northwestern): Everything I Know About Human Rights I Learned from the Clash. “A crisis for human rights”:
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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.
…- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- LIKE HIS BOOKS, Richard Brautigan was hip and wry, with a distinctly western affect. …
- Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- A grim turn of events briefly overtook the barely modulated insanity of our past …
- SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL is Godard at his worst—full of fumbled “experiments,” pompous …
- For Jane Fonda, the year 1968 began and ended in bed. The bed at the start was literal. …
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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