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Timothy Faust
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Kids With Guns: Notes and Photographs from Palestine
Palestine Speaks is a San Francisco-based, Kickstarter-funded independent journalism initiative collecting stories of daily life in Palestine. Assistant editor and Rumpus photographer Timothy Faust recently traveled to Palestine with the project. This report for The Rumpus is excerpted from his…
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Peeing as Art
Roger Ebert, in a blog post that set a million messageboards aflame, once stated that “video games can never be as art.” Clearly he wasn’t aware of this new urinal-based gaming venture. Achievement unlocked.
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What Do You Know About Palestine?
Maybe you know a lot. Maybe you can offer an impromptu academic analysis of the the causes of the Second Intifada. Maybe you’ve toed the dirt in Jerusalem or made eye contact with someone inside one of the West Bank’s…
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Mark Twain, Ahead of the Game
“What it does with its surplus water is a dark and bloody mystery.” It’s not a mystery anymore, Mr. Twain, it makes space bacteria. Check out chapters 38 and 39 of Mark Twain’s Roughing It, in which Twain writes about…
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Prose and Convicts: Literature as Rehabilitation
Peep this article about a program exploring the development of reading groups as an alternative to incarceration in The Guardian. The Guardian details a pilot program in Exeter in which probationers are offered the opportunity to enlist in a guided…