Omnivore
WTF just happened with the Trump-Kim summit
From Vox, South Korea is scrambling to figure out WTF just happened with the Trump-Kim summit; the real reason Trump’s North Korea summit failed; and why did anyone ever take Trump’s North Korea diplomacy seriously? Surprise: Donald Trump is terrible at diplomacy. President Trump is a better dealbreaker than dealmaker. Trump walks away from more deals than he makes. “It’s a nightmare scenario”: how Trump’s North Korea spectacle fits his pattern. Trump’s North Korea withdrawal was so typically
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Paper Trail
Daily Beast editor in chief John Avlon is leaving the website to become a full-time political analyst at CNN. He will be replaced by Noah Shachtman, who currently serves as executive editor. In a memo to staff, Shachtman wrote that he is excited to be the website’s third editor in chief. “The first chapter of …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 Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
February’s test launch of Elon Musk’s new Falcon Heavy rocket was probably the most expensive and most glorious publicity stunt in the history of advertising: flame and smoke, and then videos of the space-suited mannequin in the cherry-red Tesla Roadster, David Bowie on … 
Interviews
Wayne Koestenbaum
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.
…- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- While #MeToo has exposed the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in a handful of high-profile …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- Origin stories are woven with many threads: Some we spin ourselves, while others we …
- LIKE HIS BOOKS, Richard Brautigan was hip and wry, with a distinctly western affect. …
- ONE LEARNS very quickly that Myra Breckinridge is an unreliable narrator. Her writerly …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- In the wake of February’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the public American …
- February’s test launch of Elon Musk’s new Falcon Heavy rocket was probably the most …
- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
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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