Omnivore
On human rights
Tarunabh Khaitan (Oxford) and Jane Calderwood Norton (Auckland): The Place of Religion in Human Rights Law: Distinguishing Freedom of Religion from the Right Against Religious Discrimination. Rebecca M. Bratspies (CUNY): The Climate for Human Rights. I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard): On the Human Right to Health: Statistical Lives, Contingent Persons, and Other Difficult Questions. Jose E. Alvarez (NYU): The Human Right of Property. Yvonne M. Vissing on what the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Paper Trail
The End of Eddy author Édouard Louis talked to the New York Times about growing up in northern France, finding his place in literature, and the reactions to his newly-translated book, History of Violence. When the book was published in France, some critics felt that the language used by certain characters, particularly Louis’s sister, was …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
You Say You Want an Evolution
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big hit and ended up the highest-grossing film of 1968. It was especially popular with acidheads and pot smokers, science geeks, budding filmmakers, and people under forty in general. The critics in New York, however, all hated it (except for Penelope Gilliatt in the New Yorker), and it had not done well in preview screenings with studio execs and celebrities, who found it boring and confusing. Those preview screenings and early reviews have become part of the film’s legend. People love to remember how the snobs got it wrong. … - Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
by Dorthe Nors
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 JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- In nineteenth-century America, the word progress signaled limitless expansion and …
- ANACHRONISM WAS THE RULE at the political conventions of the summer of 1968. It was …
- LIKE HIS BOOKS, Richard Brautigan was hip and wry, with a distinctly western affect. …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- For Jane Fonda, the year 1968 began and ended in bed. The bed at the start was literal. …
- 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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