Do-It-Yourself Healthcare
Sara Benincasa (who we recently interviewed) assembled a handy “Healthcare Guide for People Who Don’t Want Healthcare,” complete with insurance-free cures for migraines, menstrual cramps, and gout.
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
“What It’s Like to be a Problem”
At The Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry breaks down the wider political context surrounding the Trayvon Martin killing, outlining the historical and contemporary reality in which it is “acceptable to presume the…
Bartleby Panaroma
Artist and Rumpus contributor Jason Novak has a brand-new panel drawing at The Paris Review. This time, Novak illustrates Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
“The Faces of Black Men”
“Somewhere between the inaccurate and distorted media images of the black male super predator and the black male superhero, live the majority of black men.” The Maynard Institute for Journalism…
Clams Rockefeller Photography
Photographer Clams Rockefeller documents NYC street art and graffiti interventions, including Retna’s recently completed Houston and Bowery wall mural (captured in the image above). Check out more of Rockefeller’s work…
Seeking Recognition
Lionel Shriver’s latest novel The New Republic was released this week. Interview Magazine converses with Shriver about terrorism, disarming with mockery, the cheapness of notoriety, and being a fan versus…
Ramblers Bone
On April 5th, photographers Mikael Kennedy and Sean Sullivan will embark on a month-long road trip through the American West. Their Ramblers Bone project will send them “east into the…
The Curated Twitterverse
Choire Sicha writes about reading Twitter as a text, and the strange access it gives us to the once private “sexy back rooms” of “high-end” cultural institutions. “Biesenbach has made…
Previously Unpublished
The forthcoming paperback edition of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King contains four previously unpublished scenes. The Millions shares the full text of one of those additional scenes.
“The Trance Dance”
The Nervous Breakdown excerpts Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell’s Legs Get Led Astray. “Some girls stood still. Some girls walked around the field. Some girls tried to walk into the woods…
Love for “Ghosts Are Real, At Least in Publishing”
Sari Botton’s excellent piece on ghostwriting has resonated throughout the Internet, with coverage from both The Atlantic and Andrew Sullivan. We love you back!