Omnivore: From the Archive
Matters for political theory
Luke William Hunt (Radford): Norms, Narratives, and Politics. Cara Nine (UCC): Do Territorial Rights Include the Right to Exclude? Ludvig Beckman (Stockholm) and Jonas Hultin Rosenberg (Uppsala): Freedom as Non-domination and Democratic Inclusion. Sean Ingham (UCSD): Why Arrow’s Theorem Matters for Political Theory Even If Preference Cycles Never Occur. Danielle Charrette reviews The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith by Paul Sagar. Amia Srinivasan
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Paper Trail
At Literary Hub, Michele Filgate talks to Inheritance author Dani Shapiro about structure, trauma, and memoir writing. “I don’t think you can write prose from the place of trauma. I think poets can do that, I think that’s what poets do,” she said. “If you think about any moment in your life that has been …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
Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
In Lucy Ives’s second novel, Loudermilk, a charismatic dumbass scams his way into a prestigious MFA poetry program by submitting the work of his antisocial companion. The real writer, who hates the sound of his own voice, follows the oversexed, symmetrically featured … 
- America Was Hard to Find
by Kathleen Alcott
Interviews
Sophie Lewis
When the topic of surrogacy is given media space, stories usually revolve around the struggles of women with fertility problems who turn to surrogate gestators to relieve the pain of childlessness. Or they expose the commercial surrogacy industry’s exploitative practices, lingering on the perceived body horror of commercializing someone’s else womb.” Surrogacy is presented as either a glorious gift or the worst sort of exploitation.
…- PEOPLE WITH INSTITUTIONAL POWER ARE PATHETIC. We are not supposed to say it; the …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- 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 …
- A specter is haunting the straight white liberal sixtysomething American dad—the …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- Call it a curse for an American writer to be born in 1909. These authors matured into …
- In Self-Portrait with a Cat (1928), Lotte Laserstein’s hair is short, pushed off her …
- The Clinton Hill brownstone where Kathleen Alcott’s second novel, Infinite Home (2015), …
- First published in 1952, Lillian Ross’s Picture, an eyewitness report of director John …
- 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 …
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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