Omnivore
Writing women back into the Internet
Women once ruled the computer world — when did Silicon Valley become brotopia? Writing women back into the Internet: Addie Wagenknecht interviews Claire L. Evans, author of Broad Band The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. Claire L. Evans on the untold story of Jaime Levy, punk-rock cyber-publishing pioneer. Jason Kehe on recognizing the women who wove the web. The origins of diversity data in tech: Tracy Chou’s call to action in 2013 preceded an industry-wide release of numbers.
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Paper Trail
The majority of editorial staff at the New Republic have unionized with NewsGuild of New York. “We believe that unionizing is the best way to strengthen our workplace, not just for ourselves but for future generations of journalists,” said staff writer Sarah Jones. “By organizing, we’re simply affirming our commitment to The New Republic’s progressive …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.
…- IN “STAGES OF LAUGHTER,” Art in America’s 2015 roundup of artists’ insights into humor, …
- Garry Winogrand died on March 19, 1984, at the age of fifty-six—too quickly and too …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- Americans and Libya go way back. The opening lines of the “Marines’ Hymn” commemorate …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- The narrator and (barely) protagonist of Lynne Tillman’s smart and sleightful novel—her …
- There’s a food truck that roams Manhattan, offering a Belgian waffle piled with bananas, …
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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