Omnivore
Working lives
Marshall Steinbaum (Roosevelt Institute): Antitrust, the Gig Economy, and Labor Market Power. New research suggests the $15 minimum wage is not bad for workers like economists feared (and more). The cooperative movement is showing that worker-owned businesses can not only survive, but thrive. Could expanded ESOPs be the next big economic policy? The trouble with the “working hypothesis”: James K. Galbraith reviews The Once and Future Worker by Oren Cass. How a woman called “Big Labor” could shape
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Paper Trail
Carmen Maria Machado talks to Electric Literature about Carmilla, a vampire novel by J. Sheridan LeFanu that predates Dracula by two decades and is now being reissued by Lanternfish Press with an introduction by Machado. “The connection between narratives of vampires and narratives of women—especially queer women—are almost laughably obvious,” she says. “The hunger for …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
It Gets Worse
As climate change encroaches, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, in The Uninhabitable Earth, spares no detail in explaining how. … 
Interviews
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K, Miller is a veteran feminist academic—an early scholar of French feminist literature at Columbia, the first full-time tenured member of the Women’s Studies Program at Barnard College and its first director, and now Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. All of this history flows into her recent book My Brilliant Friends, a piece of hybrid autobiographical criticism about her friendships with the scholars Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook.
…- The polymath Dick Higgins once wrote that a book is “the container of a provocation.” …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
- WHAT HAPPENED? This is the question Nathaniel Rich attempts to answer in Losing Earth: …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- “I still believe in the power of words to change culture.” That’s Lin Farley, a writer …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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