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Features & Reviews

From the Department of Possibly Lost But Nevertheless Immensely Worthwhile Causes

In all the understandable uproar about the impending disembowelment of the literary magazine TriQuarterly, I haven’t yet seen a suggestion that readers and writers try to do something about the…

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Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso

There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays…

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Morning Coffee

Morning Coffee

This is the sort of thing that people do in Finland: forkless bicycle! This is the sort of thing that people do in Croatia: sweet water organ! This is the…

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TRUTH SERUM:
Obligations (Part 2)

Truth Serum books for people who hate trees.

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Features & Reviews

Banned Books Week

According to the American Library Association there were “at least 513 actual and attempted book bannings in the US in 2008.” At the top of the list? And Tango Makes…

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Politics

Health Care Links

“Senate Panel Rejects Pair of Public Options in Health Plan”… but is there a silver lining? Schumer and Baucus claim ‘We don’t have 60 votes.’ But the real question is,…

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #24

Nobody knows what the hell they’re doing as a parent.

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Music

Tune of the Day

Artist: Aesop Rock Song: “How to Be a Carpenter”

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Features & Reviews

Mash-Up Money

Seth Grahame-Smith is best known for his mash-up novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and its follow up Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters. Well Lincoln Michel wants the world to…

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Features & Reviews

Hans Kulla-Mader: The Last Book I Loved, The Magicians

I love magic. Be it imagining myself wandering the hills of Narnia or riding a rickety boat on Earthsea’s fog ridden waters—I just want it so bad. I want to…

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