All Sound and Fury
We are good at being morally outraged on the Internet, but what does it even mean? JSTOR Daily has a brief history of our outrage.
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Lyz Lenz
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Lyz's writing has been published in the New York Times Motherlode, Jezebel, Aeon, Pacific Standard, and others. Her book on midwestern churches is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. She has her MFA from Lesley and skulks about on Twitter @lyzl. Lyz is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board and a full-time staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review.
The Ache for Order
Nowhere do we crave order, and the powerful results reaped from that order, more than in nature. The mapping of the seasons permitted the development of agriculture. The ability to…
Your Mom Is Back and Angrier than Ever
Amy Shearn writes about the resurgence of the fictional housewife: It’s possible that these fed-up working-class housewives knew something that the languid stay-at-home mothers in today’s fiction are still struggling…
Does Your Writing Sound Like Writing?
Over at the Smart Set, Elisa Gabbert discusses whether or not a work can ever be overwritten.
Weekly Geekery
Competing views of our technological progress. The exciting life and revolutionary science of Robert Trivers. Racism, psychology, and the British Empire. What’s in a name? A glacier.
Stop Thinking and Just Work
Jessica Abel suggests that what is holding you back isn’t inertia but idea debt.
Faith and Water
Amy Shearn writes about swimming and prayer in Forward: I like swimming though I suspect I’m not very good at it; pool visits involve removing my glasses and I’m so…
Weekly Geekery
Understanding our origins. The New York Public library is encouraging people to make video games. Thoreau’s world of death. Can drugs help us understand life?
The Bible and Birdie Jean
At twelve, my grandfather climbed into his Prayer Tower and said he’d die if he didn’t get $8 million; I was a gay kid living on a Pentecostal compound with…
Meet Elissa Washuta
Washington State Book Award finalist and Rumpus Saturday Editor Elissa Washuta was interviewed by Moss about her writing, living in the Pacific Northwest, and pop culture.
The Worst Things We Do, We Do To Our Sisters
For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Briallen Hopper writes about what it means to be a sister: The five of us live in four states on two coasts, and…
Weekly Geekery
Bad news from the free-Internet fight is also good news in the war on Google. A bit of sexist schadenfreude. Are psychologists who study morality evil? Want to make things really…