Omnivore
New ruling
Sharon Yadin (PAC): Shaming Big Pharma. Trump appointees pushed to illegally transfer nuclear technology to Saudis. Can drones be good? Adam Clark Estes investigates. “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth”: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says. The number of hate groups in the United States has reached a record high. Does Tom Friedman’s latest column prove that capitalism was a mistake? CNN hires GOP operative to
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Paper Trail
New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich talks to The Rumpus about critical authority, Twitter mobs, and snobbery. “My growth as a writer was unlearning that snobbishness and trying to cultivate more of a rawness in my relationship with the people who were reading me, if I was lucky enough to have anyone reading me,” she …Syllabi
Love Letters
I’m not the first, and certainly won’t be the last, person to unhelpfully ask, “Why doesn’t anyone write letters anymore?” Some of the best and most interesting writing has been done for an audience …- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
Daily Review
The return of Andrea Dworkin’s radical vision
Even before her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about than read. She had become less a public thinker than a symbol, an embodiment of feminism’s missteps and excesses. The right parodied her with the viciousness reserved for misogyny, mocking her overalls, frizzy hair, and excess weight. The left aggressively disavowed her, with other feminists going out of their way to contrast her opinions with their own. … 
- Mothers
by Chris Power
Interviews
Sam Lipsyte
Anyone familiar with Sam Lipsyte's work knows to expect somersaults of sentences, language twisted line after line into laugh-inducing poses. In his new novel, Hark, those poses have names: “Ithaka, Persian Rain, Moonlight Diana Number Three, Wheel of Tartars.” But this isn't pilates—it’s a form of self-actualization called “mental archery,” propagated by a man named Hark Morner.
…- As Denis Diderot’s lengthy and preposterously productive run approached its end in …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- The shooting of The Wild Bunch was not a pretty picture. If a film were made today …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- LIKE MUCH OF THE READING WORLD, I rejoiced when Marlon James published his third novel …
- STEADILY ACCUMULATING over the fifty-six years since Sylvia Plath’s death, the abundance …
- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
- Some of the most vivid set pieces in Anna Burns’s darkly comic novel Milkman take …
- Back when I was entering my forties and thus more youthful and idealistic than I am …
- When did Facebook start to seem evil? Was it last March, when United Nations investigators …
Reviews
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Greg Grandin
With his eye on the longer game, Ronald Reagan hedged against the nativists then filling Republican ranks. Even as his administration was carrying out workplace raids that critics were comparing to Operation Wetback in the 1950s, he bet the party’s fortunes on courting the Latino vote. “Hispanics are Republicans,” Reagan once said, on the idea that they were inherently conservative, “they just don’t know it."
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