No One Crafts a Soundtrack Like Wes
The funny thing about Wes Anderson is that it’s both hard to imagine yet simultaneously all too obvious why he is wildly popular in some milieus, hardly known in others,…
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Juliet Litman
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Juliet Litman recently moved to San Francisco after graduating from Northwestern University.
Rumpus Interviews Since 1/20
Lisandro Alonso Susannah Breslin Margaret Cho T Cooper Ron English James Frey Jaclyn Friedman Malcolm Gladwell Danny Goldberg Andrew Sean Greer Van Jones General Lawrence Nkunda Jack Pendarvis Princess Superstar…
Rumpus Book Reviews Since 1/20
The Boatloads by Dan Albergotti Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum American America by Ethan Canin The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo A Day and a Night and a…
An OG Titan of Industry and the Future of the American City
Before Dick Fuld oversaw the implosion of Lehman Brothers, and before John Thain had to apologize for accepting an outrageous bonus from Merrill Lynch, there was Frank Woolworth. The gloss and…
When Legal Matters Inhibit Good Journalism
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger dives into the complicated issues that arise when newspapers attempt to unpack the most complicated topics.
Che Debates Rage On
With the first half of the five-hour epic still in limited release, Steven Soderbergh’s Che film is already fomenting great debate on the Web.
Janet Malcolm on a Small Body of Early Twentieth Century Fiction
Janet Malcolm reaches into the archives of her childhood and discusses a hardly-known American novelist in an essay from the New York Review of Books. Malcolm reviews
Morning Coffee
The best morning of your life, every weekday at 6a.m. NPR on the books that James “Sawyer” Ford reads and the literature of Lost. The blog of unnecessary quotation marks.…