Omnivore
Preparing for the Trump-Kim summit
From Vox, the North Korea nuclear standoff: How we went from “fire and fury” to talks in under a year. Margaret Hartmann on how the U.S. and North Korea are preparing for the Trump-Kim summit. From RAND, James Dobbins on what will Kim Jong Un want and what he might give. Pompeo’s visit suggests the Trump-Kim summit is on track — here’s why Kim is ready to talk. Pompeo’s meeting with Kim went “smoothly” — Trump’s meeting with Kim might not. Trump reportedly thinks he alone can solve the North
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Paper Trail
Time has released its annual 100 Most Influential List. This year, each honoree’s blurb was written by another influential person—Barack Obama wrote about the Parkland students, Mindy Kaling wrote on Issa Rae, and Lee Daniels wrote about Jesmyn Ward. But, as GQ’s Jay Willis notes, “the brand of praise bestowed upon a given cultural luminary …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
Power Trip
Tao Lin’s eighth book, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, perhaps not entirely thanks to drugs. With exercise comes mastery, or at least competence, and Lin has been practicing his idiosyncratic craft for over a decade. … 
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by Anders Walker
Interviews
Wayne Koetenbaum
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.
…- As relations between Russia and the United States continue to worsen, one of the …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- The narrator and (barely) protagonist of Lynne Tillman’s smart and sleightful novel—her …
- Americans and Libya go way back. The opening lines of the “Marines’ Hymn” commemorate …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for a photographic project to focus on a single place—a country, a …
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.
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