Omnivore
Of the international system
Claire Vergerio (Leiden): Context, Reception, and the Study of Great Thinkers in International Relations. Mohamed Helal (Ohio State): Anarchy, Ordering Principles, and the Constitutive Regime of the International System. The future of the liberal order is conservative: Jennifer Lind and William C. Wohlforth on a strategy to save the system. Ted Fertik on getting out from under the “liberal international order”. From CRS, a report on Strategic Competition and Foreign Policy: What is “Political
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Paper Trail
At the Paris Review, Kate Zambreno and Sarah Manguso discuss motherhood, capitalism, and Zambreno’s new book, Appendix Project. “The body is so often left out of the question of writing. I needed to be a writer after I gave birth—I needed to think and have a vehicle or container in which to think,” Zambreno said. …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto begins by entering an imaginary world. It’s 2018 and “you” are a die-hard fan of Jon Bon Jovi, “the most popular and critically acclaimed musician of this era.” So devoted are you to the singer-songwriter that you’ve found work at … 
Interviews
T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden grew up queer and biracial in Boca Raton, Florida, the only child of parents battling drug and alcohol addictions, In her widely-lauded debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, she details her coming-of-age and her search, admist such volatile circumstances, for connection and stability, She often finds those things—or semblances of them—in unlikely places.
…- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- At the end of Alice Munro’s short story “Meneseteung,” which reconstructs in painfully …
- In Self-Portrait with a Cat (1928), Lotte Laserstein’s hair is short, pushed off her …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- John Berger became a writer you might find on television because of Ways of Seeing, …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto begins by entering an imaginary world. It’s 2018 …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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