Omnivore
Democracy for all
Anna Luhrmann (Gothenburg) et al.: V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2018: Democracy for All? Mohammad Ali Kadivar (BC) and Adaner Usmani and Benjamin Bradlow (Brown): The Long March: Deep Democracy in Cross-National Perspective. Brandon Gorman (SUNY-Albany), Ijlal Naqvi (SMU), and Charles Kurzman (UNC): Who Doesn’t Want Democracy? A Multilevel Analysis of Elite and Mass Attitudes. Nate Breznau (Bremen) and Carola Hommerich (Hokkaido): No Generalizable Effect of Income Inequality on Public Support
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Paper Trail
Prince’s memoir The Beautiful Ones, which was announced just before his death in 2016, will be published by Random House in October. “Spanning from his childhood to his final days as one of the most successful musical acts of all time,” The Guardian reports that the book will include “Prince’s unfinished manuscript alongside photos from …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
You Better Work
If I see Joan Didion’s packing list on Instagram one more time, I’m going to scream. And then I am absolutely going to click. We all have our baggage, we just want to know how to organize it. What if a streamlined suitcase is the missing link, the unheralded key to … 
Interviews
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K, Miller is a veteran feminist academic—an early scholar of French feminist literature at Columbia, the first full-time tenured member of the Women’s Studies Program at Barnard College and its first director, and now Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. All of this history flows into her recent book My Brilliant Friends, a piece of hybrid autobiographical criticism about her friendships with the scholars Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook.
…- The Clinton Hill brownstone where Kathleen Alcott’s second novel, Infinite Home (2015), …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Call it a curse for an American writer to be born in 1909. These authors matured into …
- “I still believe in the power of words to change culture.” That’s Lin Farley, a writer …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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