Omnivore
Guns in America today
Andrew Whitehead (Clemson), Landon Schnabel (Indiana) and Samuel Perry (Oklahoma): Gun Control in the Crosshairs: Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Stricter Gun Laws. Gun rights are about keeping white men on top: It shouldn’t surprise us that mass shootings have increased as minorities and women strive for equality. The NRA sees a bleak Hobbesian world — so why does it want to arm individuals with guns? The American terror industry: How the NRA sells guns in America today. After Parkland
…
Paper Trail
Book deals this week: Chris Fanz, a former member of the Talking Heads, sold his memoir Remain in Love to St. Martin’s Press; and Megan Angelo, a journalist and former contributing editor to Glamour, sold her debut novel, which has been described as a combination of Station Eleven and Black Mirror, to Graydon House for …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
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
While #MeToo has exposed the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in a handful of high-profile industries, its priorities have so far reflected broader social hierarchies, giving outsize attention to the experiences of a privileged minority. In a Day’s Work shows us what … 
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.
…- Lately I’ve been preoccupied with a strange thought, what one might call a blip of …
- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- The narrator and (barely) protagonist of Lynne Tillman’s smart and sleightful novel—her …
- While #MeToo has exposed the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in a handful of high-profile …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- Origin stories are woven with many threads: Some we spin ourselves, while others we …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- “Shalamov’s experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own,” Aleksandr …
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.
…
