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What to Read When You Want Your Kids to Grow Up to Be Good
A list of picture books to create meaningful conversations with kids about the way America is now and the ways we hope to make it better.
HORN! REVIEWS: Letters to Memory
Yamashita evokes the time of displacement, the dust, Christian charity and Christian racism, the problematics of documenting struggle, and the importance of art, laughter, and waffles.
A Tour de Force of Grief: Sun & Urn by Christopher Salerno
The winner of the 2016 inaugural Georgia Poetry Prize, Sun & Urn is gloomy and luminous, nostalgic and hopeful, moribund yet brimming with life.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Understanding Irma (sure feels like the Earth is dying right now). I’m sure you’ve already read it, but you should read Ta-Nehesi Coates’ new essay The First White President. But…
What If We Were Allowed to Do Anything We Wanted?: A Conversation with Clare Beams
Clare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #100: Jennifer Colville
From the tender age of eight, Jennifer Colville has known herself to be a visual artist.
Hitch in the Voice
I hear a man singing for his life, desperate in a way he would never be again and had never been before.
What We’re Reading in October!
RESERVOIR 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside.
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look! New, boron-based, life on Mars news. Inside Texas’s the Orange Show. Very little makes sense about the auroras of Jupiter. NEWS: There are some nice places that aren’t there…