Our eightieth issue hit the stands last week. “American Vendetta” documents the grudges and grievances that define our national values—not that we (or any publication) could account for all of them in just 136 pages.
Our efforts continue on our site, where Becca Young describes the fraught final months at Brooklyn’s Barboncino, the unionized pizzeria that shut down earlier this year. When the restaurant changed hands, workers hoped that the hip, young new owners would be receptive to the bargaining process. They were very wrong. Being a tattooed millennial does not always translate to good labor politics—and as Daniel Kolitz suggests, being a millennial might not translate to anything at all.
Adrian Nathan West reviews two books that, with mixed success, reevaluate and remake older novels for a new generation adrift in a world of radical flatness and streaming nonsense. Anabelle Johnston considers the placeless ambiguity of Kyung-Ran Jo’s fiction. And elsewhere, Luke Carneal tells the story of Israeli entrepreneurs trying to build a liquor industry in the shadow of a genocide.
“If one can identify any buried contention in Wells’s book, it is this: people born at roughly the same time are likely to experience many of the same historical phenomena. Eureka.”
“This sort of literary fiction has despaired of literary ends, opting instead to peddle highbrow-coded, cachet-laden nullities that appeal to the lower strata of the online blather machine.”
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