Omnivore
The advice everyone is giving Democrats
Future of the Party: Here is a new report making the case for a progressive Democratic party. The Left needs to battle for democracy as viciously as the fight fights for power: Joshua Holland interviews David Faris, author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. Progressivism as a brand: Beware candidates who have suddenly discovered that they support left-wing goals. De Leon vs Feinstein, Cuomo vs Nixon highlight a crossroads for labor and
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Paper Trail
Jennifer Egan notes the challenges facing the writers collective PEN America now. “At the core of PEN America’s advocacy have always been threats to free expression. Under the Trump administration we’re seeing more of those on our domestic front than most of us could have imagined five years ago. PEN America is uniquely equipped to …Syllabi
Marriage Reimagined
Laura SmithIt is easy to view the vast and varied landscape of marriage in the present day as a radical departure from a more conservative past. But many of these marriage alternatives—including polyamory, open …- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
- The Manson Family Eric Banks
Daily Review
Power Trip
Tao Lin’s eighth book, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, perhaps not entirely thanks to drugs. With exercise comes mastery, or at least competence, and Lin has been practicing his idiosyncratic craft for over a decade. … 
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by Anders Walker
Interviews
Wayne Koestenbaum
Ludwig Wittgenstein noted that in representational writing, “one thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature . . . and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.” In Wayne Koestenbaum’s “trance journals”—The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) and the newly released Camp Marmalade—both the frame and the off-frame are folded into his trans-perspectival impressions.
…- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- “Shalamov’s experience in the camps was longer and more bitter than my own,” Aleksandr …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- IN “STAGES OF LAUGHTER,” Art in America’s 2015 roundup of artists’ insights into humor, …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- While #MeToo has exposed the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in a handful of high-profile …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
Reviews
Essay
A Poet of the Archives: On Susan Howe
Emily LaBarge
Howe has long been interested in distilling signs and symbols, whether “art objects” or words themselves, into something more revelatory. Considering riddles, lost languages, doubled surfaces, spells, magical thinking, and other elusive forms of expression, Howe sounds the depths.
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