The World Without You: “A Painful But Necessary Transformation”
If you enjoyed our interview with Joshua Henkin, may we direct you to this review of The World Without You, featured in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. “Henkin’s prose is…
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Nikita Schoen
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Nikita Schoen is an intern at The Rumpus, and a Writing & Literature student at California College of the Arts. She lives in San Francisco.
A Close Look at Solitary Confinement
Mother Jones features a gripping story by Shane Bauer, who in 2009 was apprehended on the Iraqi border and imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison in Iran for 26 months, 4 of…
A Responsibility to the Classics
We’ve all got those books we’ve been meaning to read. Whether we heard about them yesterday, or saw them in a bookstore window a couple of months ago, or we…
Tell the Difference
How can you tell when someone you know has been affected by an experience in their life? Is it a deeper crease in the forehead, or a slight, pensive frown…
Cataloging Gets Personal
If you’ve ever been curious about what it’s like to be a cataloger of an author’s work, much less David Foster Wallace’s final book, you may want to give Jenn…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is away this week. We’ll do our best to get the day started without him. A paleontologist’s idea of a “nice pet.” Watch out. Some cakes bite back.…