Omnivore
Trump’s emergency
What is a national emergency — and does it mean Trump can build his wall? Presidents have declared dozens of emergencies, but none like Trump’s. Trump’s emergency declaration is the first since 9/11 to authorize military action. Trump declared a national emergency at the border — Sean Illing asked 11 experts if it’s legal (and more). Does Trump really have “absolute power” to declare a national emergency? Let’s examine the statute. Presidents have no extra-constitutional powers during real
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Paper Trail
Naomi Klein has sold her new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, to Simon and Schuster for a “rumored high six-figure sum.” According to the publisher, Klein’s new study concerns the “urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a transformational …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 shooting of The Wild Bunch was not a pretty picture. If a film were made today …
- 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 …
- As Denis Diderot’s lengthy and preposterously productive run approached its end in …
- Like stereotypical versions of the people the book maligns, the title of Blythe …
- LIKE MUCH OF THE READING WORLD, I rejoiced when Marlon James published his third novel …
- Victor Tausk was one of the more restless of the many bright young men and women …
- EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about …
- I turned Adam Pape’s new book of black-and-white photographs, Dyckman Haze, over and …
- Terrible things happen in Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This, a fact hinted …
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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