Omnivore
The identity politics of the Republican Party
Amid the Trump chaos, public opinion is remarkably stable. White evangelical support for Donald Trump at all-time high. White evangelicals are Trump’s base: Conservatives like to think of anti-Trump folk as living in a bubble — could it be that pro-Trump white Evangelicals are isolated from everyone else? White working-class voters may not care about Trump scandals. Trumpism doesn’t divide GOP voters — but conservatism does. Experiment proves that conservatives are little baby snowflakes who act
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Paper Trail
Time has released its annual 100 Most Influential List. This year, each honoree’s blurb was written by another influential person—Barack Obama wrote about the Parkland students, Mindy Kaling wrote on Issa Rae, and Lee Daniels wrote about Jesmyn Ward. But, as GQ’s Jay Willis notes, “the brand of praise bestowed upon a given cultural luminary …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
Power Trip
Tao Lin’s eighth book, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, perhaps not entirely thanks to drugs. With exercise comes mastery, or at least competence, and Lin has been practicing his idiosyncratic craft for over a decade. … 
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by Anders Walker
Interviews
Wayne Koetenbaum
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 …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- There’s a food truck that roams Manhattan, offering a Belgian waffle piled with bananas, …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
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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