Omnivore
Cargo cult intellectual
Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff): Intellectual Humility as Attitude. Robert Wright on Sam Harris and the myth of perfectly rational thought. Australia’s mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web: Helen Dale introduces Claire Lehmann. David Runciman reviews Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism by Steven Pinker (and more and more). Paul Krugman on intellectuals, politics and bad faith. Brad DeLong on the damnation of the professional Republican policy intellectuals. John Ganz on why
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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.
…- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- In one sense, Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country picks up where his first novel, All …
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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