Omnivore
The climate emergency
Are we headed toward the worst-case climate change scenario? (and more) We need to accept we’re likely underestimating the climate crisis. Time to panic: The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways — and fear may be the only thing that saves us (and more). Climate disaster is upon us: The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure? The best of a bad situation: This is what extinction feels like from the inside.
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Paper Trail
In anticipation of this weekend’s Oscars ceremony, LitHub offers their own Academy Awards for Books. (“Of course, the Real Book Oscars are given out at the National Book Awards ceremony,” they note, “so consider these the Fake Book Oscars.”) At the New York Times, Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris, and editors of the book review list …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.
…- here is a scene in Douglas Keeve’s 1995 documentary, Unzipped, in which Keeve films …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- Saul Steinberg couldn’t fully enumerate the contents of The Labyrinth in words. For …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- The roster of musicians—Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and …
- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
- The shooting of The Wild Bunch was not a pretty picture. If a film were made today …
- 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 …
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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