“Mad Referencing Sprees”
“What rescues Castle’s criticism from obscurity is her willingness to scrutinize her own work. Castle is as critical of herself as anyone else. The overconfidence she exudes in her mad…
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I Am a Bird of the Heavenly Garden
Hayv Kahraman was born in Baghdad in 1981 and currently lives and works in the US. She is a graduate of the Academia di Arte e Design di Firenze in…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #12: Riptide
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Riptide Because we are men of a certain age without visible boundaries or excuses we ignore the yellow flap of…
Film Family Portraits
“All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike.” So explains Tolstoy in Anna Karenina (as translated by Nabokov in Ada). The multimedia…
What Smart People Are Saying About Google.cn
Have some questions? “Q. and A.: Google and China” with Evan Osnos. The Atlantic’s James Fallows says China is hyper-confident (in their “Bush/Cheney phase”), but that the government has been…
More on Haiti Part 6
Please send all links to poetry@therumpus.net Writers Edwidge Danticat and Simon Winchester are rallying for Haiti. Winchester will be holding a fundraiser at the Manhattan location of Idlewild Books on…
Morning Coffee
Tomorrow, we’ve been told, will be another day as well. Richard Nixon as art critic. Christophe Gilbert’s photo-manipulations are pretty rad indeed. Can doctors use your eyes to determine if…
The Rumpus Review of For All Mankind
There’s a moment in For All Mankind when a couple of astronauts are wandering around the surface of the moon, collecting rock samples and staring in amazement at the black…
More on Haiti Part 5
Please forward any suggestions for links to poetry@therumpus.net. Seems like Rush Limbaugh wasn’t satisfied with being the second-most-dickish person on the Haiti earthquake (though I use the term person loosely).…
On the Superiority of James Salter
“The first time I read A Sport and a Pastime, just two years ago, I knew I’d experienced something unusual, alive, difficult in its directness; not something to look upon…
Alt Weakly
For some reason this hasn’t attracted much notice nationally, but this last week the San Francisco Bay Guardian won a whopping $21 million dollar judgment against Village Voice Media for…