Omnivore
On a collision course
Katja Doose (Birmingham): Spitak: The Last Petrified Soviet Utopia. Lula: There is a right-wing coup underway in Brazil. “No such thing”: China denies U.N. reports of Uighur detention camps. The Trump administration is launching stealth attacks on veterans. “Beautiful” and “lovely”: Trump tweets reflect fixation on women’s appearances. Trump has no black senior White House staff. Convergence is worse than collusion: Trump and Putin share many more goals than just Trump’s election. On Periscope,
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Paper Trail
Hannah Gadsby, creator of the Netflix special Nanette, is writing a book. Ten Steps to Nanette will detail the “funny and sometimes dark events of the Australian comedian’s life leading up to her realization that she had to quit comedy as she knew it.” Ballantine has reportedly bought the US publishing rights to Gadsby’s book, …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
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Daily Review
Flights
Airplane food is a subject of little glory, normally fodder for comedy routines and small talk. But acclaimed Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Flights takes it, and the other small indignities of travel, as a matter of deep philosophical importance. Flights, which … 
- Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free
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Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
…- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- ONE LEARNS very quickly that Myra Breckinridge is an unreliable narrator. Her writerly …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- The Marcellus Shale is a 575-mile-long stretch of sedimentary rock, most of it deep …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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