Omnivore
In the Caribbean
Contesting Jerome S. Handler (Virginia) and Matthew C. Reilly (Brown): “White Slavery” in the Caribbean: Enslaved Africans and European Indentured Servants in Seventeenth-Century Barbados. Richard Price (William & Mary): Maroons and their Communities in the Americas. Celucien Joseph (IRSC): Towards a Caribbean Political Theology of Emancipation and Decolonization: A Comparative Analysis of Four Caribbean Theologians. Richard Albert (BC): Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean. Carla Guerron
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Paper Trail
Amazon stock fell more than a percentage point after the Supreme Court overturned a 1992 ruling that has allowed internet retailers to forego collecting sales taxes. The American Bookseller Association celebrated the Supreme Court decision, which feels that the older tax laws gave online booksellers an unfair advantage over small brick-and-mortar stores. “Today’s ruling represents …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
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
Kudos
Faye has just boarded an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her middle life, begins. She boarded, after lunch with a billionaire, another airplane at the start of the first novel, Outline. She was reading a spam e-mail from an astrology service predicting “a major transit . . . in [her] sky” when the second, Transit, began. Passenger flight explains these incredible novels. … 
Interviews
Cheston Knapp
The word essay comes from a French word meaning “to try,” But thinking of an essay as simply an exploratory effort diminishes the form’s deep tradition—one worthy of serious study, With his debut collection, Up Up, Down Down, Cheston Knapp exhibits both a studied mastery of the form and a reverence for its artistry.
…- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- For Jane Fonda, the year 1968 began and ended in bed. The bed at the start was literal. …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- IN THE LATE 1980S, at the outset of her celebrated career, Zoe Leonard had a crisis …
- In one sense, Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country picks up where his first novel, All …
Reviews
Excerpt
Excess—The Factory
Leslie Kaplan
Below is an excerpt from Leslie Kaplan's 1982 fiction of the French factory revolts. For more on the book, recently released in an English edition (translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap), see Jason E. Smith's review in our special summer issue, 1968 Now.
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