I Choose My Pearls: On Feminism, Fashion, and Disneyland
Women don’t need laws to repress their fashion, comfort, identity, or preference. Our society’s deft ability to shame does all the heavy lifting. ...more
Posts Tagged: vacation
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suzuki and Kawasaki in the Dominican Republic
We are all punchlines. Projections of projections of projections. But whose joke is it? And where is the bill? ...more
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Year of Light and Dark
It isn’t much of a contest to say that Julie Coyne is the single most inspirational human being I have ever met. And I am here—in Xela—in part because I could use a little inspiration. ...more
A Great Escape
I came from, not a small town, but basically not a very interesting place…So it was very important for me not to rebel but simply to get away, to go away.
Travel writing doesn’t have to be lackluster. It can be smart and a pleasure to read, a form of literature in its own right, as Paul Theroux, Ryszard Kapuściński, Peter Matthiessen, and Jan Morris demonstrate in their work.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon clears a few things up about Ke$ha.
There are pictures here of: Salvador Dali jumping, Audrey Hepburn jumping, a dressed-up monkey jumping.
The canine as a canvas. Yikes.
Maybe you’ve seen it, but this dude redesigned some Jules Verne books and oh boy are they nice.
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