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P.E. Garcia
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The Precarious State of the New York Public Library
In part, the crisis of The New York Public Library stems from the fact that it’s a weird entity. It’s not a state or city agency; instead, the library was founded as a private, nonprofit institution. It has always been…
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Anti-Sex Activists Are Anti-Human
It’s about how “Show us your humanity!” is more belittling and damaging than “Show us your tits!” At The Stranger, Conner Habib argues that anti-sex activists are actually just bigots out to marginalize and oppress sex workers.
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The Myth About Badgers
In the seventeenth century, country folk believed that the badger had legs on one side shorter than the other – the consensus was that the short legs were on the left. The Public Domain Review looks at Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a…
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An Experimental Novel from Beyond the Grave
Often mentioned in the same breath as works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, Ó Cadhain’s novel is, in some ways, even more radically experimental. For starters, all the characters are dead and speaking from inside their coffins… The Millions…
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The Other Elizabeth Taylor
Men write to me and ask for a picture of me in my bikini. My husband thinks I should send one and shake them, but I have not got a bikini. The New Yorker profiles Elizabeth Taylor (the famed novelist,…
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Nick Flynn’s New Book
Nick Flynn, friend and contributor to The Rumpus, has just released My Feelings, a poetry collection described by NewPages as “finely textured” with “a memoirist’s robust conception of personal history.” You can catch Nick Flynn reading at Bookcourt in Brooklyn…
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The Problem with Poems
The fatal problem with poetry: poems. At the London Review of Books, Ben Lerner discusses the difficulty of memorizing Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” and how every failed poem is actually what makes poetry successful as a whole.
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A Novel Throwback
Back in April, the Washington Post suggested magazines should return to the days of Dickens and serialize novels again, recommending that the Paris Review lead the charge. Now, the Paris Review has answered the call by serializing Chris Bachelder’s new novel,…
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The Art and Science of Translation
The New York Times explores if automatic translation apps could put old-fashioned literary translators out of business.
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Why Muslims Felt Excluded in India
Part of [Gandhi’s] genius was he was able to broaden out the appeal of the independence movement…But the way he did it was by using Hindu iconography and stories, mythology…He was personally very unprejudiced about this..But for Muslims, ordinary Muslims,…
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The Living Dead Author
How is it possible that even when I know nothing about a novelist’s life I find, on reading his or her book, that I am developing an awareness of the writer that is quite distinct from my response to the…
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A Memo to Exclusionary Feminists
Feminists should accept and embrace Caitlyn and all trans and gender non-conforming people and see them wherever they define themselves on a broad gender spectrum. The project of ending misogyny and patriarchy is one that not only inextricably includes them,…