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Ruth Kinna and Thomas Swann (Loughborough) and Alex Prichard (Exeter): Occupy and the Constitution of Anarchy. Robert Mueller’s “collusion” case so far, explained. The Mueller report is coming — here’s what to expect (and more). No excuses: Only full disclosure of Mueller’s findings will do. Four principles for reading the Mueller report. Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism. Microsoft reveals new Russian hacking attempts. Max Boot defends Elliott
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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.
…- The last lines of the last story in David Means’s new collection, “Two Ruminations on …
- LIKE MUCH OF THE READING WORLD, I rejoiced when Marlon James published his third novel …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- The roster of musicians—Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and …
- When did Facebook start to seem evil? Was it last March, when United Nations investigators …
- Imagine Manny Farber’s double career—unparalleled vernacular-modernist movie critic …
- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- As Denis Diderot’s lengthy and preposterously productive run approached its end in …
Reviews
Excerpt
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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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