The Poetry of Polar Exploration
Elizabeth Bradfield’s passion for her subject and her acuity and great sensitivity to language make Approaching Ice a fine collection that will fit nicely on shelves of natural history books…
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More Bad News for Facebook
“In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its inattention to users’ privacy concerns, the social-media site Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn’t…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #16: To the Men At Work Outside My Window
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) To the Men At Work Outside My Window See here, fellows: It is me, your skinny-stemmed little daisy faggot boy…
“Know that you won’t be a different person when you get a book deal.”
“It is not a race. Okay? I’m going to repeat that because it is so, so important: It is not a race. It does not matter what age you are…
“Many authors have waited their whole lives for a nod from the gray lady.”
“My view is very much eastern, very much old school, where a book review from the Times was the only sure sign that an author had arrived. But maybe it’s…
Musical Prose and Multiple Perspectives
“It is a family saga of mothers and daughters; a deconstruction of the Little-House-on-the-Veldt romanticism in which noble white settlers tame a hostile land; a massive, wrenching catalog of illness…
Swinging in China
“In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that…
Cards of Wu
Ellis Nadler‘s “Cards of Wu” is a hopefully never-ending series of woodcuts in the form of divination cards.
Morning Coffee
We just have to keep on trying. In the world I live in you get to pretend to be a commercial pilot for 13 years. The Japanese know how to…
The Rumpus Review of Bluebeard
Anyone familiar with Catherine Breillat’s career to this point might have been momentarily confused upon hearing or reading about her latest film, a retelling of the classic gothic fairy tale…
Should We All Commit Facebook Suicide?
“But somewhere in that transition from a social site meant to deepen interpersonal relationships to a self promotional, commercial tool, Facebook lost its appeal. “The various facets of my life…