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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.
Pageantry and Water Sports
I had come in search of the meaning of synchronized swimming in modern America. Over the course of a week, I had gotten bored with the human body’s physical excellence.…
Reviewing the Literary Review
The Chronicle of Higher Education describes the Los Angeles Review of Book‘s new model for the literary review: LARB beckons a new model of a literary review, not tied to…
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Science fiction says more about the present than the future. The realities of virtual reality. Google takes on the quest for the fountain of youth. Use the power of the…
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Computers know images better than you. Is virtual reality better than books? Stop calling it science fiction. Raising the minimum age of social media. Star Wars and predictable stories.
The Value of a Face
Rachel Vorona Cote writes about how people use beauty to undermine the words of women: I understood, as I continue to understand with distressing nuance, that too many men navigate…
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The long dark history of socialist utopias. Get all the gadgets! Netflix binges are ruining the environment. Internet hate speech law.
Celebrating Donuts
At the Paris Review Daily, Sadie Stein writes a reflection on Mayflower donuts and optimism: Usually, seeing records of defunct restaurants fills me with melancholy. Each one looks so perfect, so…
Photographing Crime
It’s a paradox that many of the show’s images are strangely striking even if the crimes they represent are horrifying. Joseph Stalin had at least 750,000 executed between 1937 and…
The Rumpus Interview with Laurie Foos
Laurie Foos discusses her latest novel, The Blue Girl, feminism, Michael Jackson, and mythical moon pies.
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Why is Dr. Seuss funny? Science knows. Stanford has a digital humanities major. So, that’s a thing now. Dominating the translation business. These youths are really famous on the Internet.
Non-British People Pick the Most British Novel
The BBC asked a bunch of non-British people to pick the 100 best British novels of all time and they came up with this. Spoiler alert: Middlemarch is number one.