Weekend Essay Round-Up

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This weekend’s Rumpus was a little quieter than usual, but by no means silent. If you missed them, here are three essays to get your week going:

Michelle Dean pays tribute to David Rakoff. She also sheds light on an affair between the philandering H.G. Wells and one of his mistresses, the headstrong critic Rebecca West.

And Anne Valente eloquently addresses the power struggle many women face today—in terms of men, and in terms of themselves.

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Rebecca Rubenstein is the interviews editor for The Rumpus. She is also a lover of cinema and a Scrabble hustler. When not reading books made of paper, she can sometimes be found writing at Badly Marked Street Signs and, more frequently, thinking on Twitter. She resides in San Francisco. More from this author →