Omnivore
Facebook’s data scandal
“I’m not familiar with that”: The five most dishonest answers Mark Zuckerberg gave to Congress. Why dictators love Facebook: The social media network lives according to double standards. Facebook doesn’t need to listen through your microphone to serve you creepy ads. Facebook uses artificial intelligence to predict your future actions for advertisers, says confidential document. We may own our data, but Facebook has a duty to protect it. Why Facebook’s data scandal has not become a wider crisis:
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Paper Trail
Parkland shooting survivors and siblings David Hogg and Lauren Hogg are writing a book with Random House. #NeverAgain, which includes a foreword by Parkland student Emma González, will detail the movement’s purpose and challenges as they attempt to convince lawmakers to enact new gun control legislation. #NeverAgain will be published in June. The shortlist for …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
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
In 1977, the school district of Kansas City, Missouri, sued the state of Missouri for supporting segregation. Kansas City students were largely black; suburban schools educated significantly whiter populations. The government’s districting policies, the suit alleged, … 
- Motherhood
by Sheila Heti
Interviews
Wayne Koetenbaum
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.
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- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- There’s a food truck that roams Manhattan, offering a Belgian waffle piled with bananas, …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
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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