Omnivore
The politically liberal secular polity
Yaniv Roznai (IDC Herzliya): Negotiating the Eternal: The Paradox of Entrenching Secularism in Constitutions. Jean L. Cohen (Columbia): On the Genealogy and Legitimacy of the Politically Liberal Secular Polity: Bockenforde and the Asadians. Tariq Modood (Bristol): Multiculturalizing Secularism. Lama Abu Odeh reviews Religious Difference in a Secular Age: The Minority Report by Saba Mahmood. Iain T. Benson (Notre Dame Australia): Getting Religion and Belief Wrong by Definition: Why Atheism and
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Paper Trail
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is working on a film based on James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk. Jenkins wrote the screenplay in 2013, and spent the intervening years getting permission from the Baldwin Estate. Gloria Karefa-Smart, Baldwin’s sister, called Jenkins “a sublimely conscious and gifted filmmaker” and said that his “medicine for melancholy …Syllabi
Civilizations in Crisis: Chinese Speculative Fiction
Darren HuangIn the Chinese literary world, speculative fiction has long been a necessary means of critique and protest against an overbearing regime. Science fiction authors create new (often dystopian) universes …- Reading Play Rennie McDougall
- End of an Era Emmett Rensin
- Shock Waves: A Syllabus for the End Times Fuck Theory
Daily Review
The Gift
Barbara Browning’s The Gift is a deeply relevant and timely novel, in part because the underlying “gift” of the title refers to the struggle to be our better selves and to expect a better collective self from our institutions. Browning also recognizes that societal wellness lives in our understanding of and generosity toward our own bodies, and that, when all else fails, our bodies—what we do with them—harbor resistance. … 
Interviews
Sunaura Taylor
A few years ago, while Sunaura Taylor was researching her new book, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, she came across the story of a fox who was born with the same disability that Taylor has—arthrogryposis, a contracture of the joints.
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- Lightning is a natural phenomenon that claims: a science (fulminology), an official …
- THE JOURNALIST NANCY FRIDAY is best known for My Secret Garden (1973), a collection …
- On the morning of June 9, 2012, Avtar Singh called 911 in Selma, California, to say …
- The index card pinned to an unassuming bulletin board is catnip for lonely women with …
- SEX IS AS OLD AS DIRT, yet every generation claims it anew in the words and tropes of …
- IN THE FIRST EPISODE OF Fire Island, Logo TV’s latest burlesque of the evacuated gay …
- A SHORT TIME AFTER my wife and I got married, my mother-in-law suggestively forgot in …
- TINA TURNER PUT OUT her most popular song, “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” a year …
- SUSAN SONTAG’S JOURNALS AND NOTEBOOKS, which totaled close to one hundred by the time …
- IN THE ANNALS OF EROTIC LITERATURE, a subject that consistently draws women writers …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
The basement felt warmer than the garage. Down the Kagwa boys went. The basement sat as one grand open plane. In the far corner stood the boiler—a large white cylinder with a blue control panel, copper pipes running up into the ceiling and a silver tube running outside through the wall. It looked like something from the set of James Whale’s Frankenstein. The boiler rumbled now as if reanimating life.
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