Omnivore
The necessary idealism of the Green New Deal
The story behind the Green New Deal’s meteoric rise: How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party. What Green New Dealers can learn from the first New Deal. Here are 7 reasons Democrats won’t pass a Green New Deal. Activists have a plan to keep the Senate from nuking the Green New Deal. Politicians need to be clear: Do they take climate change seriously or not? Noah Millman on the case for green nationalism. California high-speed rail and the American
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Paper Trail
New York Times Magazine staff writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner has sold a new book. “A family story of wealth and class and inheritance and dubious paternity,” Long Island Compromise was bought by Random House and does not yet have a publication date. “Gizmodo’s track record of skewering owners is scaring away bidders,” the New York Post …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.
…- Imagine Manny Farber’s double career—unparalleled vernacular-modernist movie critic …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- In his recent book New Dark Age, James Bridle describes the current internet era as …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- When did Facebook start to seem evil? Was it last March, when United Nations investigators …
- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
- LIKE MUCH OF THE READING WORLD, I rejoiced when Marlon James published his third novel …
- Some of the most vivid set pieces in Anna Burns’s darkly comic novel Milkman take …
- STEADILY ACCUMULATING over the fifty-six years since Sylvia Plath’s death, the abundance …
Reviews
Excerpt
More, More, More
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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