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The Rumpus Review of The Hangover
According to the opening credits, The Hangover is “A Todd Phillips Movie” not “A Todd Phillips Film.”
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An Oral History of Myself #6: Pat
I left home at thirteen and spent a year on the streets, more or less, and four years in group homes. Because of that my social network was significantly wider than average. In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew…
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Where Lawns End: The Rumpus Interview with Amy Stein
I swiped on the lights in my cabin jerked from a half-sleep by a non-human fracas coming from a place right beyond my window.
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Morning Coffee
Helmet Palla’s extremely painful furniture. I think this says something about the fundamental problem with human beings. Squid embryos! the 2009 Princeton Art of Science awards. It’s friday, that must mean it’s time to link to another forgotten Eastern European…
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“A Friend’s Take” by Steven Tagle
Rumpus contributor Steven Tagle has entered this film in Project Pushback, a competition to produce fresh messaging in support of the freedom to marry. If you like “A Friend’s Take,” please take a second to create a free user account…
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Louis Menand on Creative-Writing Programs
Louis Menand has really been on a roll this year. First the must-read article about how the Village Voice changed journalism, then the article on Donald Barthelme, and now this week, an essay about The Program Era by Mark McGurl,…
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Cynical-C, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Haters
As a journalist of minor note, my articles sometimes appear on websites that actually get traffic. Nowadays, those websites often allow comments. And those comments remind me why there ought to be no internet. There’s a reason why human expression…
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Chinese Government Remembers Tiananmen Square with War on Internet, Umbrellas
Twenty years ago today, June 4, 2009, the Tiananmen Square massacre took place in Beijing, China.
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All that Glitters
What was it like to be Jewish, and accused of patricide, in Holocaust-era Austria?
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“UP” Yours Brooks Barnes and Richard Greenfield
Shocker: Up nearly broke $70m, despite the drumbeat media coverage about how the supposed lack of interest from younger boys and no female lead would not interest audiences. Most egregious was the NY Times piece, which built its jittery thesis…
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The Rumpus Interview with Craig Yoe
Was Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster mad at DC Comics–or even his own creations–for betraying him? Was he taking some sort of delight in putting his characters through this alternate world? (NSFW)
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From The History File—A Mad Hatter!
It’s true: the mercury made Boston Corbett crazy. But not before he shot the man who shot Lincoln. On April 26th, 1865, he was among the 16th New York Cavalrymen sent to track down John Wilkes Booth. Corbett got a…