Omnivore
Of populism
William Mazzarella (Chicago): The Anthropology of Populism: Beyond the Liberal Settlement. Jordan Kyle and Limor Gultchin (Tony Blair Institute): Populism in Power Around the World. David Fontana (George Washington): Unbundling Populism. Christine Schwobel-Patel (Warwick): Populism, International Law, and the End of Keep Calm and Carry on Lawyering. The myth of the Will of the People: Populism lives by the thought that the presence of the people in government is sufficient to wrest control from
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Paper Trail
New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich talks to The Rumpus about critical authority, Twitter mobs, and snobbery. “My growth as a writer was unlearning that snobbishness and trying to cultivate more of a rawness in my relationship with the people who were reading me, if I was lucky enough to have anyone reading me,” she …Syllabi
Love Letters
I’m not the first, and certainly won’t be the last, person to unhelpfully ask, “Why doesn’t anyone write letters anymore?” Some of the best and most interesting writing has been done for an audience …- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
Daily Review
The return of Andrea Dworkin’s radical vision
Even before her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about than read. She had become less a public thinker than a symbol, an embodiment of feminism’s missteps and excesses. The right parodied her with the viciousness reserved for misogyny, mocking her overalls, frizzy hair, and excess weight. The left aggressively disavowed her, with other feminists going out of their way to contrast her opinions with their own. … 
- Mothers
by Chris Power
Interviews
Sam Lipsyte
Anyone familiar with Sam Lipsyte's work knows to expect somersaults of sentences, language twisted line after line into laugh-inducing poses. In his new novel, Hark, those poses have names: “Ithaka, Persian Rain, Moonlight Diana Number Three, Wheel of Tartars.” But this isn't pilates—it’s a form of self-actualization called “mental archery,” propagated by a man named Hark Morner.
…- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- The last lines of the last story in David Means’s new collection, “Two Ruminations on …
- In life, we tend to dislike those who “like the sound of their own voice.” And in …
- Etel Adnan has two desks. One for writing, the other for painting, they face opposite …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
- LIKE MUCH OF THE READING WORLD, I rejoiced when Marlon James published his third novel …
- When did Facebook start to seem evil? Was it last March, when United Nations investigators …
- Victor Tausk was one of the more restless of the many bright young men and women …
Reviews
Excerpt
More, More, More
Greg Grandin
With his eye on the longer game, Ronald Reagan hedged against the nativists then filling Republican ranks. Even as his administration was carrying out workplace raids that critics were comparing to Operation Wetback in the 1950s, he bet the party’s fortunes on courting the Latino vote. “Hispanics are Republicans,” Reagan once said, on the idea that they were inherently conservative, “they just don’t know it."
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