Omnivore
Interfering in the Mueller probe
Benjamin Wittes goes behind James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty. James Comey isn’t the hero we deserve — but he’s the hero we need. Republicans are actively interfering in the Mueller probe to protect Trump. Mitch McConnell is inviting a constitutional crisis. Trump’s assault on the rule of law is working. Can Trump pardon his way out of the Mueller probe? Josh Marshall: “Cohen-ology pays off after all”. It might not matter whether or not Michael Cohen flips on Donald Trump. Why do Trump’s defenders
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Paper Trail
Time has released its annual 100 Most Influential List. This year, each honoree’s blurb was written by another influential person—Barack Obama wrote about the Parkland students, Mindy Kaling wrote on Issa Rae, and Lee Daniels wrote about Jesmyn Ward. But, as GQ’s Jay Willis notes, “the brand of praise bestowed upon a given cultural luminary …Syllabi
Marriage Reimagined
Laura SmithIt is easy to view the vast and varied landscape of marriage in the present day as a radical departure from a more conservative past. But many of these marriage alternatives—including polyamory, open …- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
- The Manson Family Eric Banks
Daily Review
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
In 1977, the school district of Kansas City, Missouri, sued the state of Missouri for supporting segregation. Kansas City students were largely black; suburban schools educated significantly whiter populations. The government’s districting policies, the suit alleged, … 
- Motherhood
by Sheila Heti
Interviews
Wayne Koetenbaum
Ludwig Wittgenstein noted that in representational writing, “one thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature . . . and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.” In Wayne Koestenbaum’s “trance journals”—The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) and the newly released Camp Marmalade—both the frame and the off-frame are folded into his trans-perspectival impressions.
…- When Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation came out in 2014, I couldn’t elbow my way to …
- When I was in a suicidal phase in my life and hiding my alcoholism from my partner, …
- Americans and Libya go way back. The opening lines of the “Marines’ Hymn” commemorate …
- Garry Winogrand died on March 19, 1984, at the age of fifty-six—too quickly and too …
- The narrator and (barely) protagonist of Lynne Tillman’s smart and sleightful novel—her …
- Lately I’ve been preoccupied with a strange thought, what one might call a blip of …
- There will be people who visit you in prison, and who watch over you at first when …
- A fan of Alan Hollinghurst’s masterpiece The Line of Beauty has created a Twitter …
Reviews
Essay
A Poet of the Archives: On Susan Howe
Emily LaBarge
Howe has long been interested in distilling signs and symbols, whether “art objects” or words themselves, into something more revelatory. Considering riddles, lost languages, doubled surfaces, spells, magical thinking, and other elusive forms of expression, Howe sounds the depths.
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