Omnivore
Plan to take
James Edwards (Oxford): Laws That are Made to be Broken. Simone Cheli (Florence): Radical Constructivism: Historical Roots and Contemporary Debate. Qatar uses bribery, slavery to prepare for next men’s World Cup (and more). Helaine Olen on Elon Musk and corporate cowardice. Jacob Hamburger on how the “Intellectual Dark Web” is nothing new. Doreen St. Felix on the summer of Coupon Carl, Permit Patty, and the videos that turn cop-callers into mockable memes. BBQ Becky, Permit Patty and why the
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Paper Trail
Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving The Atlantic, where he has been on staff since 2008. Darin Webb, a longtime accountant at the literary agency Donadio & Olson, has been charged with stealing more than $3.4 million from the company and its clients. According to the Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Webb has …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
Homeplace
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the word “honky-tonk” dates to 1899, in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette. “A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main Street be reopened,” … 
- The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
…- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
- Louis XIV would seem to offer a natural opening for an exegesis of seventeenth-century …
- Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- In his 1929 essay “Will Talkies Abolish the Theater?” Luigi Pirandello offered a …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- IN ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968, Ryan H. Walsh pursues the story behind the …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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