Omnivore
What the Internet reveals
Patrick O’Callaghan (UCC): The Chance “to Melt into the Shadows of Obscurity”: Developing a Right to Be Forgotten in the United States. What the Internet reveals about who we are: Disturbing truths emerge in a study of the data harvested by search engines. Should Internet firms pay for the data users currently give away? The tyranny of convenience: All the personal tasks in our lives are being made easier — but at what cost? From the Atlantic, can Germany fix Facebook? A new law seeks to protect
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Paper Trail
The Guardian profiles Hanya Yanagihara, the author of A Little Life and editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Yanagihara says that besides health care, she decided to take a job with the Times because the collaborative nature of working at a magazine balances out the effects of working on a novel. “Fiction …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
A Neutral Innocence of the Heart
Picture the carefree swagger of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging himself into a pristine tree-lined body of water from a rope as if there were no history, no context, no world. Instead, simply the body and the self it manages, flying gracefully with no net, nothing to carry that body to safety but its own faith that nothing will squash it down. … 
Interviews
Wayne Koestenbaum
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.
…- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- There’s a food truck that roams Manhattan, offering a Belgian waffle piled with bananas, …
- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
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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