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they are less likely to be writing from the midst of distressed confusion and more from a place of wry self-mockery and detachment.

the editor and writer Phillip Lopate considers the boom of literary nonfiction amid times of uncertainty.One dilemma for the contemporary essayist is how to tackle a social problem while avoiding self-righteousness or strident virtue signaling.

The complicated ties that bind parents and children are demonstrated in Rivka Galchens The Case of the Angry Daughter and Meghan Daums Matricide.) Yet all these ways to challenge and subvert the classic essay are in the tradition of the essay itself.then at least a silver: I think we can agree that there has been a remarkable outpouring of new and older voices responding to this perplexing moment in a form uniquely amenable to the processing of uncertainty.

they are less likely to be writing from the midst of distressed confusion and more from a place of wry self-mockery and detachment.roping off a period like the year 2000 to the present and calling it contemporary is somewhat arbitrary.

Cappello has shrewdly spoken about essay writing—that non-genre that allows for untoward movement.

the essayist might then wish to parry that Crusoe-like separateness by analyzing to what extent he or she belongs to a larger group or tribe.it seems clear that the Democratic partys real power bases indeed reside on the pro-corporate wing—and that the partys key leaders are.

that any dissenting voices within the Democratic Party will unconscionably harm their beleaguered executive leader.No? — Round 2 Debating in the waiting room Two Baffler contributors wage a hypothetical battle over the hypothetical meaning of a hypothetical victory.

in which Sanders faction is somehow going to be more relevant if it is surrounded by mainstream Democrats.Clinton officials will seek new revenue from taxes on the wealthy and dedicate some of it to infrastructure and childcare.