Omnivore
Why music
Charlotte Brand and Alex Mesoudi (Exeter) and Alberto Acerbi (TU/e): Cultural Evolution of Emotional Expression in 50 Years of Song Lyrics. All-too-easy listening: The music industry sells classical as soothing background music — robbing a great art of its power. Ed Simon reviews Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden. The feminine revolution of electronic music: After years of male domination and overt sexism, DJs and producers grow in number and international
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Paper Trail
At Vulture, Morgan Jerkins talks to Claudia Rankine black trauma, Serena Williams, and her new play, The White Card. “I love women who refuse invisibility in black femininity and who are insisting that we are worth whatever worth is out there,” Rankine said. “The policing of Serena shows up again and again in my work …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
It Gets Worse
As climate change encroaches, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, in The Uninhabitable Earth, spares no detail in explaining how. … 
Interviews
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K, Miller is a veteran feminist academic—an early scholar of French feminist literature at Columbia, the first full-time tenured member of the Women’s Studies Program at Barnard College and its first director, and now Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. All of this history flows into her recent book My Brilliant Friends, a piece of hybrid autobiographical criticism about her friendships with the scholars Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook.
…- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- The most striking scene in Who Killed My Father is also its most emblematic. The French …
- The polymath Dick Higgins once wrote that a book is “the container of a provocation.” …
- WHAT HAPPENED? This is the question Nathaniel Rich attempts to answer in Losing Earth: …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
- The Clinton Hill brownstone where Kathleen Alcott’s second novel, Infinite Home (2015), …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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