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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
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This Week in Posivibes: Tis the Season
It’s getting to be year-in-review season, the time when everyone sits back and catalogs the songs that blew their minds, the album art that inspired the most memes, the top five tracks that clearly violated copyright, the ten best songs for driving down…
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The Trouble with Confidence
“But what are the statistics? Aren’t you taking a similar risk just driving?” Wide-eyed, attentive, he leans forward slightly.
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Notable San Francisco: 12/14–12/20
Wednesday 12/14: McSweeney’s presents Emily Carr (Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, or a Sonnet). Free, 7 p.m., Alley Cat Books. Michael Chabon reads from his new book, Moonglow. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore. Thursday 12/15: Poet and…
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This Week in Essays
You don’t want to miss Ta-Nehisi Coates’s comprehensive history of the Obama presidency at the Atlantic. And here at The Rumpus, Jenessa Abrams writes on owning her sexuality without allowing for sexual harassment, and what she imagines she will tell her future children about…
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Led from a Distance by Harry Newman
Bill Wunder reviews Harry Newman’s Led from a Distance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Stop everything and read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece “My President Was Black.” The allure of submerged civilizations. Mummering is making a comeback. This is the most genuinely evil computer virus I’ve ever seen. Some notes on documentary film in a post-truth…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
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Rumpus Holiday Gifts and Subscriptions!
This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus. We have plenty of gift options for the well-read optimist or literary child in your life, so order now and choose priority shipping to make sure it gets to you and your loved ones…
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The Body and the Blood
The world around me looked suddenly sharper, more sinister, the female body where I lived appearing so much more penetrable, exposed, and impossible to hide.
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Weekly Geekery
Want to craft spy thrillers? Learn science writing. The science infusing Fantastic Beasts, and where to find it. This is why you talk like a cowboy. Turn off Beyoncé if you want to actually write today—lyrics hurt productivity.
