Omnivore
Rising up
Maura Priest (Arizona State): Patriotism: Commitment, not Pride. Alex Ward on 4 main takeaways from new reports on Russia’s 2016 election interference (and more and more and more). The detention of Huawei’s CFO is legally justified — why doesn’t the U.S. say so? (and more) More powerful than a Russian troll army: The National Enquirer. In Roma, Texas, residents must choose: Help Border Patrol, or border crossers? Don’t blame Jakelin Caal’s death on her father — US policies did this. Google’s
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Paper Trail
Former House Speaker John Boehner is working on a memoir, Politico reports. Notes From a Smoke-Filled Room will cover Boehner’s Washington career and harkens back to “a bygone era when bipartisan deals were negotiated by party leaders behind closed doors rather than in front of the cameras and on Twitter—and when a politician’s habit for …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
Fighting Words
Early one morning in February 2012, as the Syrian army was pounding the besieged city of Homs into submission, artillery fire crashed around a building in the embattled district of Baba Amr. As rocket fire closed in, the handful of foreign journalists and activists who’d been using the building as a makeshift media center panicked. … 
Interviews
John Keene
The writer, translator, and poet John Keene has long married a daringly experimental style with a commitment to stories that are usually omitted by history’s ellipses. It’s an approach tangible in his work as a translator, where Keene has long expounded the need for English editions of black diasporic authors.
…- JOHN MCPHEE WAS BORN in Princeton, New Jersey, attended Princeton High School and …
- IN HER 2007 MEMOIR, Flying Close to the Sun, radical leftist Cathy Wilkerson describes …
- EARLY ONE morning in February 2012, as the Syrian army was pounding the besieged city …
- ON THE NIGHT the French author Virgine Despentes was gang-raped, at age seventeen, …
- Heike Geissler, the German novelist and translator, ran out of money in the winter of …
- I first heard the name Haruki Murakami as an undergraduate in Madison, Wisconsin, when …
- “The titles of certain books are like names of cities in which we used to live for a …
- What’s in a name? I ask, though with admittedly far less ardor than Shakespeare’s …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Great Divide: Russia and the West
Tony Wood
The events of the past few years have created a glaring divide between Russia and the West, How and why did this happen, In the West, the story of how relations with Russia descended to their current abysmal level is often told as one of an ominous drift, under Putin, back toward a Soviet-style showdown between Moscow and its former adversaries—prompting many to conclude that the two sides found themselves waging a ‘New Cold War’.
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