Omnivore
Sport in the age of Trump
Agency, order and sport in the age of Trump: Andrew McGregor on Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground (and more). Eric Allen Been interviews Gerald Germs on how athletes visiting the White House became a political flashpoint. Why Donald Trump likes Mike: For Trump, Michael Jordan represents the ideal black athlete — apolitical. LeBron James, the most important athlete in America, explained: Dylan Scott on how the world’s best basketball player became a political force for racial
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Paper Trail
The New York Times has collected the editorials of the hundreds of newspapers across the country criticizing Trump’s attacks on the press and remind readers of the value of journalism. “Insisting that truths you don’t like are ‘fake news’ is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy,” they write. “And calling journalists the ‘enemy of the …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
Country Music USA
Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried accountants chewing Nicorette in Chevy Tahoes, not railroad linemen spitting Copenhagen through the shot-out windows of a Ford F-150. Their assimilation worries them, and they sometimes … 
- Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft
Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
…- SOON AFTER MUHAMMAD ALI posed as a martyr, the country got a real one. The Reverend …
- In nineteenth-century America, the word progress signaled limitless expansion and …
- In his 1929 essay “Will Talkies Abolish the Theater?” Luigi Pirandello offered a …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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