2011
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Digital Abuse Surveyed
“Young people immersed in the online world are encountering racist and sexist slurs and other name-calling that probably would appall their parents and teachers. And most consider it no big deal, a new poll says.” The survey suggests that people…
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Suburbia Saving
An emerging movement seeks to orient suburbs around farms rather than golf courses. “According [to] the American Farmland Trust, more than 6 million acres of agricultural land in the United States were lost to development between 1992 and 1997 alone.…
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Feminist Firsts
Taking us back to her prep school days, Miranda July reveals her first feminist action and the fallout. “I didn’t have a plan beyond this moment. I wasn’t sure anyone would even get it—who and what I was talking about.…
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Craig Thompson Interview
In conversation with Mother Jones, graphic novelist Craig Thompson discusses his new love story, Habibi, his early affinity for cartooning, and growing up in a fundamentalist Christian household. “They used to be very upset by it and say that my…
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The Rumpus Interview with Steve Koester of Two Dark Birds
A few years ago Steve Koester, the frontman of the band Two Dark Birds, cut a considerable amount of static out of his life, started spending more time with his wife and daughter and thousands of trees, and wrote and…
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Ellen Willis Came Up with the Term Pro-Sex Feminism
It seemed to me that most contemporary rock magazines were propagating an artless scorecard-genealogy version of criticism, treating music in isolation from other art, culture, and political realities. And I had certainly never read Bangs, whose irascible, rambling rock-crit from…
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Scratch-n-Sniff
A scratch-and-sniff guide to New York is in the works. The children’s book, called New York PHEW York, will include “both the good (strawberry, pizza, hot dogs, churros) and the bad (garbage, sewer steam, horse manure) smells which sum up…
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New Silverstein
“There are kids underneath my bed,” Cried little baby monster Fred. 145 out of 1,500 of Shel Silverstein’s poems (many unpublished) have been carefully selected by family members to create a new collection of the beloved poet’s work: Every Thing…
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Scoring the Good Stuff
“I don’t find it easy. I find it quite messy, an almost permanent state of not knowing what the hell you are trying to do. But it’s quite addictive, like one of those fancy drugs that are very difficult to…
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Rubbish and Blazing Light
Set in contemporary Mumbai, Aravind Adiga’s second novel, Last Man in Tower, focuses on Yogesh Murthy, the man who wants nothing, and the community who doesn’t understand him.