2014
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The Original Comments Section
For the New Yorker, Lauren Collins looks at what she calls “the original comments section”—old notes written in the margins of books—and our modern obsession with them.
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Melville House to Publish Torture Report
Melville House will publish the Senate Torture Report in paperback and e-book on December 30th. The report, released Tuesday, is currently available to read online, but Melville House hopes that publishing it in print form will reach a wider audience.…
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A Woman Without a Country by Eavan Boland
Jenna Le reviews Eavan Boland’s A Woman Without a Country today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Jacqueline Woodson and the End of the World
I think I was pretty nervous about it as a kid. I think I did [have] that fear of the world coming to an end. I think also it’s kind of how kids exist anyway, you know? You’re always fearing…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Remember that time Canada accidentally bombed Washington? We are all very literally singing like birds. The strange beauty of electrical discharges. Meanwhile, in David Attenborough news. The days of anti-love drugs are getting disturbingly close.
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Sound & Vision: Scott Crawford
Director and punk rock enthusiast Scott Crawford talks with Allyson McCabe about his film Salad Days, his punk fanzine Metrozine, Kickstarter, and DIY music culture.
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The Real Crisis
Along with the other onslaught of reactions to The New Republic’s mass resignation, George Packer offers his own response at the New Yorker, suggesting that the “collapse” (along with the recent Rolling Stone debacle) shows a “crisis” in journalism: The…
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Walking the Road Into Mordor
A Tolkien scholar writes about how he fought off a lawsuit from the Tolkien Estate: I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and put my research skills to work on my defense. Unfortunately, the case law was sparse. The…
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Not That Kind of Narrator
The problem with unreliable narrators — and the thing that makes them so delightful to read in fiction — is that by design, you never quite know when they are telling the truth. Which makes it a stunningly poor choice…
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Women Dying from Being Women
Anne Boyer writes about the history of breast cancer for The New Inquiry. There is no disease more calamitous to women’s intellectual history than breast cancer: this is because there is no disease more distinctly calamitous to women. There is…
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Next Letter for Kids: Cam Baity and Benny Zelkowicz
We’re sending our next Letter For Kids from Cam Baity and Benny Zelkowicz, authors of the fantasy series The Books of Ore. Cam and Benny explain the magic behind their stop-motion animation, and how they can make any object appear to be moving!…
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Dispatch #2
“You want your cup to overflow,” he said. “My cup is causing a flood.”