Omnivore
Amazon’s time
Amazon’s share of U.S. e-commerce market approaches 50 percent. Amazon’s continuous resistance to collecting sales taxes made it the first major American company to build its business based on tax avoidance — contrary to popular belief, the company is still resisting today. Thanks to Amazon, the government will soon be able to track your face. On Amazon’s time: Amazon has become increasingly reliant on a work scheduling scheme that often coerces workers into leaving their shifts early or turns
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Paper Trail
A lawsuit has been filed against the creators of S-Town. The estate of John B. McLemore alleges that McLemore, the focus of the podcast, “didn’t give permission to broadcast the intimate details of his sexual orientation, mental state and other aspects of his life.” Marlon James, Victore LaValle, Danzy Senna and more tell the New …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
Homeplace
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the word “honky-tonk” dates to 1899, in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette. “A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main Street be reopened,” … 
- The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Interviews
Keith Gessen
Keith Gessen’s timely and hilarious new novel, A Terrible Country, arrives ten years after his first, All the Sad Young Literary Men. The story follows Andrei Kaplan, an overeducated, underemployed young academic as he relocates to Moscow to look after his sick grandmother in the summer of 2008. Over the course of the year, Andrei cares for his grandmother, plays hockey, befriends revolutionaries, and falls in love.
…- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- ANACHRONISM WAS THE RULE at the political conventions of the summer of 1968. It was …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- In his 1929 essay “Will Talkies Abolish the Theater?” Luigi Pirandello offered a …
- Louis XIV would seem to offer a natural opening for an exegesis of seventeenth-century …
- BY THE TIME COUPLES CAME OUT, John Updike had already published four novels, three …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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