Omnivore
Such a way
John E. Stewart (VUB): The Self-Organizing Society: A Grower’s Guide (“Can a human society be constrained in such a way that self-organization will thereafter tend to produce outcomes that advance the goals of the society?”). John Gardner (Oxford): Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful. The #ToddlerinChief thread is one year old. Kanye West and President Trump’s Twitter lovefest, explained (and more and more). Mulvaney to bankers: Here’s how the game works. The case against John
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Paper Trail
In a press release, George R.R. Martin announced the publication date for his next book, Fire and Blood, and confirmed that “winter is not coming . . . not in 2018, at least.” While The Winds of Winter won’t be arriving any time soon, “imaginary history” Fire and Blood will be published next November. Peter …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.
…- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- 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 …
- IN “STAGES OF LAUGHTER,” Art in America’s 2015 roundup of artists’ insights into humor, …
- IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for a photographic project to focus on a single place—a country, a …
- I OF THE FEW real-life intrusions into The Solitary Twin, the final novel by Harry …
- Lately I’ve been preoccupied with a strange thought, what one might call a blip of …
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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