SATURDAY HISTORY LESSON: Rebecca West, H.G. Wells, and Anthony Panther West
She’s always the subject of grand narratives about the “strong,” “modern,” or “new” woman
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...moreI am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide For Boys.
Rumpus Poetry Book Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Linda Hogan’s Indios as March’s selection.
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye landed the Best Documentary Award at Cannes Film Festival for her film, Daddy I Do in 2010 — about the controversial religious ceremony Purity Balls, where girls from six to sixteen pledge their virginity to their fathers until marriage.
If we can take away one thing from history it’s that it often repeats itself. The Kent State massacre in 1970 was one of the first instances where the media shined a light on the corruption of police enforcement.
MY MAGNIFYING GLASS
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Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my magnifying glass.
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In January of 2001, optimistic and slightly at sea at the start of my final college semester, I walked into the University of Wisconsin’s student bookstore in search of an anthology edited by a writer whose name I’d never heard, full of stories written by writers I’d not read, assigned for a class I’d only added at the very last second: creative writing. It was a workshop. The book?
CIRCLES
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Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing circles.
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Two roads really did diverge in a wood near the townhouse complex where I spent my ‘tween years. On one side of the road was suburbia: bland and uniform, dozens of doors with numbers and letters and little else to distinguish them.
2 p.m. Saturday. Cars, taxis, buses, and dollar vans swarm. Ubiquitous on Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, dollar vans distinguish themselves from the frenzy of Brooklyn traffic with a fare-seeking catcall: Beep. Beep.
CUPID
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cupid.
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Silent films, like theater, require their audience members to suspend a sense of reality, investing instead in wonder, imagination, and sensory titillation. The greatest films of the silent era were able to transform the dart of an eye, the contortion of a dimple, or the mournful whine of a violin into entirely new vernaculars.
THE SUPER BOWL
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Super Bowl.
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SAND DOLLARS
★★★★★ (4 out of 5)
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TERMITES
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YOGA
★★★★★ (1 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing yoga.
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PAPA SMURF
★★★★★ (1 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Papa Smurf.
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SKY MALL
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
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TURTLE DOVES
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
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CHECKERS
★★★★★ (2 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Checkers.
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THE GAS PEDAL
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
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JIFFY BRAND PEANUT BUTTER
★★★★★ (5 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Jiffy brand peanut butter.
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THANKSGIVING, 2011
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Thanksgiving, 2011.
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RAIN
★★★★★ (0 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing rain.
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THE COMPUTER AT THE JAMAICA PLAIN LIBRARY
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the computer at the Jamaica Plain Library.
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APPLE PIE
★★★★★ (4 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing apple pie.
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MY NAME
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Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my name.
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MY NEW SUIT
★★★★★ (5 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my new suit.
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INCEPTION
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Inception.
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