profanity
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The New York Times Uncensored
At Slate, Justin Peters argues that the New York Times’s policy on profanity is in desperate need of updating.
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Along Came Polly
I taught Polly at Tin House one year. Or maybe she taught me.
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Welcoming Profanity
Profanity can be somewhat polarizing, but why not appreciate all the incidentally humorous and intensified moments that come from the foul parts of language? This essay is an ode to a certain four-letter word and praises the use of the…
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The Rumpus Original Combo: Colson Whitehead
A review of Sag Harbor, followed by an interview with Colson Whitehead—or, as we like to call this literary twofer: The Rumpus Original Combo.