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Beth A. Simmons (Penn): Borders Rules. Pak-Hang Wong (Hamburg): Global Engineering Ethics. Cyclone Idai: “The scale of devastation is enormous”. Can voters forgive Elizabeth Warren? Elizabeth Warren wants to abolish the electoral college — here’s how it could actually happen, sort of (and more). Thread: “Would abolishing the Electoral College mean that candidates will only campaign in a handful of urban areas?” Thread: “The problem is not necessarily the Electoral College”. The quest for Brexit
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Paper Trail
Tommy Orange has won the Pen/Hemingway Award for his debut novel, There There. “The breadth and scope of this novel are matched only by the fierce and relentless intelligence that Orange brings to his characters, who despite tragedy, heartbreak and loss, reside in a remarkable world of hard-earned grace,” this year’s judges for the prize …Syllabi
Love Letters
Kaitlyn TiffanyI’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
Sea Monsters
You could describe Chloe Aridjis’s first two novels as mood pieces. Both have a Sebaldian preoccupation with the ways we are haunted by history; both are, as she has put it, “somehow impregnated or overcast with the weight of the past.” Her narrators—one, in Book of … 
- The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire
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Interviews
In 2012, the British author Geoff Dyer published Zona, an eccentric volume on Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s vaunted 1979 film, Dyer’s Zonamoves with pronounced energy between close readings and carefree riffs, Dyer’s new book, ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’—just out from Pantheon—marks the writer’s second crack at book-length movie criticism.
…- Some of the most vivid set pieces in Anna Burns’s darkly comic novel Milkman take …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- STEADILY ACCUMULATING over the fifty-six years since Sylvia Plath’s death, the abundance …
- 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 …
- Victor Tausk was one of the more restless of the many bright young men and women …
- 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 …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
Reviews
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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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