Omnivore
How we talk about fascism
Johannes Steizinger (Vienna): The Significance of Dehumanization: Nazi Ideology and Its Psychological Consequences; and National Socialism and the Problem of Relativism. From NYRB, it can happen here: Cass Sunstein reviews They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 by Milton Mayer and Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century by Konrad H. Jarausch. American PR professionals helped sell the Nazi regime to the United States. George Soros is not a Nazi, explained.
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Paper Trail
Being Mortal author Atul Gawande has been named CEO of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase’s joint healthcare initiative. “I have devoted my public health career to building scalable solutions for better healthcare delivery that are saving lives, reducing suffering, and eliminating wasteful spending both in the US and across the world,” Gawande said in …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
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s memoir, Sick, is a deeply powerful and harrowing odyssey through the most profound mysteries of mind and body, as Khakpour explores the roots of a chronic illness that has no clear beginning or end.
…- In nineteenth-century America, the word progress signaled limitless expansion and …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- The Marcellus Shale is a 575-mile-long stretch of sedimentary rock, most of it deep …
- In the wake of February’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the public American …
- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
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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