Omnivore
One path
Simon Caney (Oxford): Political Institutions for the Future: A Five-Fold Package. Raul Castro is stepping down — but he’s leaving behind a complicated legacy and an unclear future. Cuban communism is at its reform-or-die moment: The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy. Democrats have great female presidential candidates — they need to avoid the victim trap. And the newest member of Trump’s fan club is Kanye West. Michael Harriot on Kanye West,
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Paper Trail
The Guardian profiles Hanya Yanagihara, the author of A Little Life and editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Yanagihara says that besides health care, she decided to take a job with the Times because the collaborative nature of working at a magazine balances out the effects of working on a novel. “Fiction …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
A Neutral Innocence of the Heart
Picture the carefree swagger of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging himself into a pristine tree-lined body of water from a rope as if there were no history, no context, no world. Instead, simply the body and the self it manages, flying gracefully with no net, nothing to carry that body to safety but its own faith that nothing will squash it down. … 
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 …
- There’s a food truck that roams Manhattan, offering a Belgian waffle piled with bananas, …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- PICTURE THE CAREFREE SWAGGER of a teenage white boy, shirtless and smooth, swinging …
- Lately I’ve been preoccupied with a strange thought, what one might call a blip of …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- As relations between Russia and the United States continue to worsen, one of the …
- The narrator and (barely) protagonist of Lynne Tillman’s smart and sleightful novel—her …
- Vladimir Nabokov saw the beginnings of literature in a familiar idiom. He imagined a …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
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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