Omnivore
California’s wildfires
California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state’s deadliest wildfire — here’s how. The Paradise fire is catastrophic, and the wildfire threat to California is only growing: The ingredients that fueled the deadly wildfire were brewing for years — residents only had minutes to flee. The view from the ground: A wildland firefighter on how fires have transformed since his career began 20 years ago. California’s DIY firefighters battle alone as the richest hire private teams.
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Paper Trail
Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming sold more than 725,000 units on November 13, the day of its release. This is the biggest release-day sales total for any book published in the US in 2018. Maya Jasanoff, the author of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, has won the 2018 Cundill History Prize. Ann …Syllabi
Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb
Charlotte ShaneWith Amélie Nothomb’s latest, Strike Your Heart, the Francophone author of twenty-five books seems to have finally found some of the American attention she deserves. (I’m basing this assessment in part …- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
Daily Review
The Piranhas
In English, “novel” equals “fiction”—the meaning is unambiguous. In Italian, however, it’s a bit more complicated. The word romanzo describes a book-length prose narrative, but it does not distinguish between fact and fiction. In the work of Roberto Saviano—Italy’s most … 
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Interviews
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman is a native New Yorker, an activist, and, although I'm not sure she would apply the label to herself, a profound philosopher on social relations and blame, All of these streams flow into her recent novel Maggie Terry, a literary detective story about a former NYPD officer struggling with addiction, a tough case, and her ex-partner's theft of her daughter, In a compressed time frame of a few days, Maggie, fresh out of rehab, both loses and finds her place in the new New York.
…- NO WORKING WRITER believes in the shattering power of an encounter—with another person, …
- In his visionary 1985 essay “Exactitude,” the Italian writer Italo Calvino says, “The …
- I’m pretty sure Robert Lipsyte was the first to make the insolent-yet-logical suggestion …
- I've spent the past few days unpacking my library. My books are finally on the shelves, …
- How good was Lucia Berlin? She published her first story in 1960 at age twenty-four, …
- Two Southern belles on the run get catcalled one too many times by the same schlubby …
- ON THE NIGHT the French author Virgine Despentes was gang-raped, at age seventeen, …
- On March 6, 2015, just before International Women’s Day, authorities in cities around …
- EARLY ONE morning in February 2012, as the Syrian army was pounding the besieged city …
- Heike Geissler, the German novelist and translator, ran out of money in the winter of …
Reviews
Excerpt
Seasonal Associate
Heike Geissler
You’re shivering and sweating at the same time on the bench. Time’s flying; you’ll have to pick up your children soon, but you don’t want to make a fuss yet. As if for your entertainment, the most beautiful and elegant of trial presentations begins in front of two shelves full of books, CDs, and DVDs.
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