This Week in Essays
Aleksandar Hemon explores moral relativism in a time of Trump for Lit Hub. At Catapult, Teow Lim Goh reminds us that we’ve been here before as she examines the repercussions…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Ethics in the Anthropocene: is it wrong to enjoy climate change’s warmer winters. How should we be preserving video games? Meanwhile, on instagram, unfinished buildings and eastern bloc matchboxes. Why…
The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Elkin
Writer and academic Lauren Elkin discusses her latest book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, the freedoms and constraints of urban space for women, and the power of first person.
We Brown Women
Our bodies will not be your banners. We are not yours to use and abuse, we are not yours to dupe. We see through your words, and we see your violence.
Album of the Week: Peter Silberman’s Impermanence
“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.” This quote from Miles Davis is what inspired Peter Silberman during the make of his first solo album,…
The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager
Ilana Masad reviews The Lost Daughters Collective by Lindsey Drager today in Rumpus Books.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in the dystopia: IoT teddy bear leaks about two million parents’ and kids’ voice messages. Good news! Cell phones are (probably) not giving you cancer (maybe). We should all…
The Mirror’s Shards
In the face of colossal and destructive political lies, we need a more nuanced understanding of the world than simply truth versus lie.
This Week in Books: Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…
“Man, You Better Watch Out”: Why Women Keep Marching Against Trump
[A protest's] job is to hearten the people who’re part of it, to let them look into the eyes of those who agree with them, to help them feel less alone.
Notable Los Angeles: 2/27–3/5
Monday 2/27: Tim Dorsey discusses and signs Clownfish Blues. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. ALOUD presents An Evening with George Saunders. The author discusses his novel, Lincoln in the Bardo,…
