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Brazilian Poetry Takes a Weird Turn for the Normal

Brazil has a nearly two-hundred-year-old poetic history, during which various poets have fought to define Brazilian identity, criticize the injustices of capitalism, and catalog “the joys and miseries of being…

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Do Authors Use Symbols on Purpose?

In 1963, a high-schooler named Bruce McAllister decided he would prove to his English teacher once and for all that the symbols she was asking students to find in books…

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Black Quotations from Marion Berry to Natasha Trethewey

For Guernica, Lauren K. Alleyne interviews Retha Powers, editor of the new Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations, which collects quotes by a rainbow of black sources, from Zora Neale Hurston to NWA to…

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Taking a Break from the Internet

We at the Rumpus love the Internet. We are, after all, a place to read, on the Internet (just check our Twitter bio). But sometimes it’s good to contemplate how…

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On Reading “the Midcentury Misogynists”

In a piece flawlessly titled “Reading While Female: How to Deal With Misogynists and Male Masturbation,” four female writers talk to each other about how women in college try to…

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Yumi Sakugawa Goodness

Our resident cartoonist extraordinaire Yumi Sakugawa has some very exciting stuff coming up. 1. She’s the author of our next Letter in the Mail, going out December 4. For more information…

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Italian Librarian Steals and Deals Rare Books

Who says librarians can’t also be the leaders of organized crime rings? The very man charged with protecting these treasures, Marino Massimo De Caro, a politically connected former director of…

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The Internet Is Really Creepy Sometimes

If, while posting selfies to Twitter and reblogging Pacific Rim GIFs on Tumblr, you ever feel a pang of nostalgia for the Wilder Westier days of the Internet, here’s a story…

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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

Hope your Thanksgiving was bountiful and your travel experience wasn’t too terrible! Here’s what we had going on on the Rumpus this weekend. Lydia Kiesling’s review of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch…

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Give Thanks for this Book Flowchart

Thanksgiving can be a trial sometimes, but one can always turn to books for comfort. Here’s a fun Thanksgiving flowchart from Bookish to help you determine which book you need…

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The Copycat Lolita

A few weeks before Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita came out, the New Yorker published a short story about a man consorting with a young woman named Lolita instead of her mother—but this story…

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PJ Harvey Tuesday #5: “This Mess We’re In”

Thom Yorke and PJ Harvey sit in New York and contemplate their doomed love and suffer, and it’s all terribly stylish and sexy. What really makes the song crackle, though, is the fact that neither one of them had sung this way about sex before—and haven’t really done so since.

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