Omnivore
After the open
Mary Ellen O’Connell (Notre Dame): The Popular But Unlawful Armed Reprisal. Mohammad Iqbal (RMIT): Migration Crisis Deepens in the Indian State of Assam: Is Another Myanmar Style “Ethnic Cleansing” Imminent? Trump wants to drastically alter the education department — here’s what you need to know (and more). Hungary just passed a “Stop Soros” law that makes it illegal to help undocumented migrants. The globalist: Daniel Bessner on George Soros after the open society. Has the New America Foundation
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Paper Trail
Amazon stock fell more than a percentage point after the Supreme Court overturned a 1992 ruling that has allowed internet retailers to forego collecting sales taxes. The American Bookseller Association celebrated the Supreme Court decision, which feels that the older tax laws gave online booksellers an unfair advantage over small brick-and-mortar stores. “Today’s ruling represents …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
Kudos
Faye has just boarded an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her middle life, begins. She boarded, after lunch with a billionaire, another airplane at the start of the first novel, Outline. She was reading a spam e-mail from an astrology service predicting “a major transit . . . in [her] sky” when the second, Transit, began. Passenger flight explains these incredible novels. … 
Interviews
Cheston Knapp
The word essay comes from a French word meaning “to try,” But thinking of an essay as simply an exploratory effort diminishes the form’s deep tradition—one worthy of serious study, With his debut collection, Up Up, Down Down, Cheston Knapp exhibits both a studied mastery of the form and a reverence for its artistry.
…- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- WILLIAM CALLEY’S EARLY CHILDHOOD, in a wealthy neighborhood of Miami, was uneventful. …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- ONE LEARNS very quickly that Myra Breckinridge is an unreliable narrator. Her writerly …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- The Marcellus Shale is a 575-mile-long stretch of sedimentary rock, most of it deep …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
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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