Omnivore
Vision for the whole
Scott R. Stroud (Texas): “Be a Bully to Beat a Bully”: Twitter Ethics, Online Identity, and the Culture of Quick Revenge. Simon During (Queensland): An Eighteenth-Century Origin of World Literature. The World Social Forum, a.k.a. the “anti-Davos”, just concluded — here’s what happened. How Omran Daqneesh, 5, became a symbol of Aleppo’s suffering. The NSA data leakers might be faking their awful English to deceive us. From Vox, it sure looks like Aetna quit Obamacare because Obama opposed their
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Paper Trail
Wired has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. “If it’s true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, then our task has been to locate the places where various futures break through to our present and identify which one we hope for,” writes editor Scott Dadich. …Syllabi
Reforming the Racist Criminal Justice System
John MiddletonThroughout the Democratic primaries, police brutality and systematic discrimination in the criminal justice system have become critical campaign issues, due in large part to the unrelenting pressure …- Fame's Growing Pains Natasha Stagg
- Machine Learning Andrew Zornoza
- Selling Citizenship Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Southern Comedy Margaret Eby
Daily Review
Look
In a recent essay, the poet Solmaz Sharif lamented that so few contemporary American poets write about American wars. The reluctance to touch the topic, she thought, often came from a well-meaning humility: Unless the author has a personal experience with war, they think they can't write it. … 
- Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
by Horacio Castellanos Moya - The Drone Presidency
Interviews
Emma Cline
A month ago, I attended a reading by Emma Cline at BookCourt, in Brooklyn. Cline's debut novel, The Girls, had just come out to breathless reviews, and the event was well attended. Cline, twenty-seven, seemed neither nervous nor overeager to please. Less-is-more is a concept she understands.
…- The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, unique in their sophisticated weaponry and surreal …
- IN A VIDEO CLIP of Joseph “Crazy Joe” Gallo testifying at the McClellan Committee’s …
- After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, online activists produced …
- Heroin doesn’t sound like “heroine” by accident. The name for the drug derives …
- VIOLENT AND VIOLATING, plagiarism, the term we now use to describe stealing another …
- Intrigue abounds in Missing Man, New York Times reporter Barry Meier’s account of …
- If every biography peddles the aura of the unknown with a promise of revelation, Diane …
- It’s late 2009 and Jen, our heroine, has fallen on hard-ish times: She has been …
- TO REVISE OR REVOLT? That’s often the question when reviewing the Western canon’s …
- Circa August 1993, in a museum in the Netherlands, I had what Adam, the narrator of …
- It’s no great exaggeration, these days, to say that the state of the white American …
Reviews
Essay
"A Ted Hughes Bestiary" edited by Alice Oswald
David Biespiel
Among the mysteries of the strange animals that appear in A Ted Hughes Bestiary—a compilation edited by poet Alice Oswald of his writing about animals real and invented—is how often these creatures strike me as anything but strange. Taking one of his great plunges into the waterways—those “legendary” depths “deep as England”—he encounters an otter with a “round head like a tomcat,” or a pike with its “sag belly."
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