Who is Ana Mendieta?
Today, in Book Review, John Reed reviews Who is Ana Mendieta? a new graphic novel about the life and tragic death of the feminist artist. Read the review.
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“Literary Criminal”
Interrogating the reluctance to further qualify crime writing, this Millions piece hones in on Megan Abbott. The essay explores Abbott’s protagonists, prose, and grasp of the human condition, arguing, “If…
FUNNY WOMEN #59: Looking for Best Friends, m4ww
Craigslist is unfiltered potential. It’s criteria gone crazy. In a single day, you can get ripped off, score free kittens,
Birthdays, Exiles
Perhaps you have thought about what you would take and where you would go if forced to flee the country because of your communist beliefs? In honor of Pablo Neruda’s…
Religion vs. Pop Culture
“There was a time, religious historians say, that religion was easy to pinpoint because people were defined by their beliefs, practices and traditions of worship. Now, with the sheer number…
Who is Ana Mendieta?
Who is Ana Mendieta? brings the story of its eponymous central character into the public eye once again as a graphic novel detailing her career as an artist and her unsolved death.
Rumpus Sound Takes: Appalachian Punk and Authenticity’s Chimera
O’Death Outside (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) Don’t let the banjo fool you. For all their eclecticism, Brooklyn-based O’Death’s frame of reference remains firmly indie—strained male tenor singing abstruse lyrics over…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure we’d all like to go back to the days when turtles ruled the world. Ghost Fleet hurray! Wanna look at some mid-century baggage labels? (Yes you do.) Let…
The Rumpus Interview With Mansoura Ez Eldin
T-shirts, hats, mugs, flags, wristbands, posters, stickers, mock license plates: When I was in Cairo in March, almost every street corner seemed to offer a vendor selling January 25 Revolution…
Internet Theories
The development of the internet has complex cultural roots that divide over the different companies that were participating in its invention. The Apple/Microsoft “personalised, decentralised and playful computing” worked against…