Omnivore
The threat of nuclear weapons
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Hugh Gusterson on the blinders on the US nuclear policy establishment; and Joe Cirincione on a new, hopeful moment for US nuclear policy. Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first. This is not a drill: Lessons from the false Hawaiian missile alert. What do nuclear bomb explosions sound like? This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you: This is how the world ends — not with a bang, but with a lot of really big bombs. A
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Paper Trail
BuzzFeed examines the Mueller report and revisits the story that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. At the Washington Post, Paul Farhi points out that the Mueller report shows fake news came not from the media but from Trump and his team. Also at the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada, who just won a …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
It Gets Worse
As climate change encroaches, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, in The Uninhabitable Earth, spares no detail in explaining how. … 
Interviews
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K, Miller is a veteran feminist academic—an early scholar of French feminist literature at Columbia, the first full-time tenured member of the Women’s Studies Program at Barnard College and its first director, and now Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. All of this history flows into her recent book My Brilliant Friends, a piece of hybrid autobiographical criticism about her friendships with the scholars Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook.
…- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- The most striking scene in Who Killed My Father is also its most emblematic. The French …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- At the end of Alice Munro’s short story “Meneseteung,” which reconstructs in painfully …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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