Omnivore
Understanding of poverty
From the Congressional Research Service, a report on Poverty in the United States in 2017: In Brief. David Brady (UC-Riverside): Theories of the Causes of Poverty. Americans want to believe jobs are the solution to poverty — they’re not. Social Security, food stamps, and other programs kept 44 million people out of poverty last year. What are the biggest signs that a community’s children will remain poor? David Leonhardt on a one-question quiz on the poverty trap. The Poor People’s Campaign calls
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Paper Trail
CNN filed a lawsuit against the White House yesterday after Jim Acosta’s press pass was revoked last week. The Columbia Journalism Review rounds up opinions on the case from Knight First Amendment Institute director Jameel Jaffer, the New Yorker’s Masha Gessen, and CJR writer Jonathan Peters. “When a political leader puts journalists in a position …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
Seasonal Associate
Heike Geissler, the German novelist and translator, ran out of money in the winter of 2010 and took a temporary job at an Amazon warehouse in Leipzig to support her two children. As she tells us in the opening pages of her book about that experience, she was not intending … 
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.
…- The first piece in The Souls of Yellow Folk, the collection of Wesley Yang’s journalism, …
- Two Southern belles on the run get catcalled one too many times by the same schlubby …
- 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 …
- JOHN MCPHEE WAS BORN in Princeton, New Jersey, attended Princeton High School and …
- MERVE EMRE STRIKES a rare off-note in her crackling new book, The Personality Brokers …
- I've spent the past few days unpacking my library. My books are finally on the shelves, …
- Ling Ma’s debut novel, Severance, toggles between a novel about work, in which its …
- Heike Geissler, the German novelist and translator, ran out of money in the winter of …
Reviews
Excerpt
Extralife
Jessica Hopper
Saturday was the Hold Steady video. It is a good thing not all one hundred people showed up because we had room for about thirty-three total. People later said they did not show because filming video is waiting around for twenty hours to act fake-excited in one-minute spurts.
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