Omnivore
War power
Mary L. Dudziak (Emory): Death and the War Power. John C. Dehn (Loyola): Why a President Cannot Authorize the Military to Violate (Most of) the Law of War. Robert Knowles (Valparaiso): Warfare as Regulation. Frances FitzGerald reviews The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward. Louis Menand reviews The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot. Why America doesn’t win wars anymore: Alex Ward interviews Dominic Tierney, author of The Right Way
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Paper Trail
Journalist Moira Donegan is writing a book. Her agent Monika Woods confirmed to Page Six that “Moira is working on a book following in the tradition of her sharp, insightful work on gender and feminism today.” VIDA Women in Literary Arts has released the 2017 VIDA Count, a report that its authors say has taken …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
You Say You Want an Evolution
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big hit and ended up the highest-grossing film of 1968. It was especially popular with acidheads and pot smokers, science geeks, budding filmmakers, and people under forty in general. The critics in New York, however, all hated it (except for Penelope Gilliatt in the New Yorker), and it had not done well in preview screenings with studio execs and celebrities, who found it boring and confusing. Those preview screenings and early reviews have become part of the film’s legend. People love to remember how the snobs got it wrong. … - Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
by Dorthe Nors
Interviews
Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s memoir, Sick, is a deeply powerful and harrowing odyssey through the most profound mysteries of mind and body, as Khakpour explores the roots of a chronic illness that has no clear beginning or end.
…- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- WILLIAM CALLEY’S EARLY CHILDHOOD, in a wealthy neighborhood of Miami, was uneventful. …
- Not since William Steig’s C D B! have I read a book with as many capital letters as …
- ONE LEARNS very quickly that Myra Breckinridge is an unreliable narrator. Her writerly …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- A grim turn of events briefly overtook the barely modulated insanity of our past …
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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