Omnivore
The problem of Donald Trump
The problem of Donald Trump didn’t start with Donald Trump: His shocking rise to power was actually 27 years in the making. “This is the new Republican Party”: Edward-Isaac Dovere on the final GOP holdouts to Donald Trump whimper into oblivion. Departing Republicans confess: They have been part of a “cult”. Authoritarianism and the cultic dynamic: Daniel Shaw on traumatic narcissism in American politics today. “Dictator envy”: Trump’s praise of Kim Jong Un widens his embrace of totalitarian
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Paper Trail
Victor LaValle’s novel The Changeling is being adapted into a TV series that will air on FX. The legendary and inimitable Happy Ending reading series will return for one night: June 27 at Joe’s Pub. This installment is titled “Anxiety and Misdiagnosis,” and the lineup will include Amanda Stern (Happy Ending’s creator and longtime host, …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 ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- BY THE TIME COUPLES CAME OUT, John Updike had already published four novels, three …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- A grim turn of events briefly overtook the barely modulated insanity of our past …
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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