November 2015
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The Comic Tragedy of King Lear
Matthew Wills writes for JSTOR Daily on the romcom interpretation of King Lear. Wills brings to attention the fact that for almost two centuries, a version of Shakespeare’s Lear by poet Nahum Tate, one with little tragedy and a happy…
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Mourner’s Bench by Sanderia Faye
Amina Gautier reviews Mourner’s Bench by Sanderia Faye today in Rumpus Books.
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Student and Teacher, Man and God
At the Paris Review, H.S. Cross analyzes Ernest Raymond’s 1922 novel, Tell England. He explores the unique and charged relationships between a schoolteacher, Radley, and his students, Ray and Doe. The boys have an unexpected and, at least initially, seemingly erotic reverence…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Short week this week, we’ll have MC posts for you today and tomorrow and then take the week off for the holiday. What we’re most thankful for is you. It’s always a good day for previously unseen Shackleton pictures. Failed…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra and Ben Doller
Sandra and Ben Doller talk about The Yesterday Project, a blind collaboration, and about what it means to savor each day when you have stage III melanoma.
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An Unnatural Mother: Elena Ferrante and Motherhood
Reading Ferrante is an intensely personal experience, and it’s disorienting to realize it’s one you’ve been having collectively.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: All The Time Every Minute
I lost a best friend and that means something, but you cannot deny that to go on the grief has to stop killing you, eventually.
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Notable NYC: 11/21–11/27
Saturday 11/21: Vijay Seshadri, Meghan O’Rourke, John D’Agata, and Melissa Febos read and discuss their works. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Bob Perelman and Elisabeth Workman join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Catherine Lacey, Jee Leong Koh, and…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suffragette and Feminist Inaction
A significant issue in the suffragette movement was its racist treatment of women of color.
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The Books Women Shouldn’t Read
Let me prove that I’m not a misandrist by starting [my book list] with Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, because any book Paul Ryan loves that much bears some responsibility for the misery he’s dying to create. Have you read Esquire’s…
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The Importance of Moby-Dick
The affronted world’s Ahabs, crippled by attack, vow vengeance and a show of might. At The Kenyon Review blog, Karen Malpede talks about her experience of reading Moby-Dick out loud every night and explains why the book is still relevant…
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Missy’s Back
In the wake of the overwhelmingly positive response to her release of “WTF (Where They From),” which marked the artist’s first significant release since 2005, Missy Elliot spoke to iD about taking time out and returning to the craft: I…