Omnivore
War for Senate
After Ryan’s exit, big-money donors turn to war for Senate. To conservatives hoping to salvage the Trump era, keeping the Senate is key. Will the GOP abandon the House to save the Senate? Fealty to Trump has become the coin of the realm for GOP Senate candidates. GOP primary competition to see who most fanatically supports Trump could backfire in November. Senate and governor approval numbers are bad news for Democrats. If Democrats sweep the House this fall, blame Paul Ryan’s rich-on-poor class
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Paper Trail
Jennifer Egan notes the challenges facing the writers collective PEN America now. “At the core of PEN America’s advocacy have always been threats to free expression. Under the Trump administration we’re seeing more of those on our domestic front than most of us could have imagined five years ago. PEN America is uniquely equipped to …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
Power Trip
Tao Lin’s eighth book, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, perhaps not entirely thanks to drugs. With exercise comes mastery, or at least competence, and Lin has been practicing his idiosyncratic craft for over a decade. … 
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by Anders Walker
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.
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- There’s a food truck that roams Manhattan, offering a Belgian waffle piled with bananas, …
- 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, …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
- TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, …
- Origin stories are woven with many threads: Some we spin ourselves, while others we …
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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