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Walter Gordon
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The Language of American Politics
At The American Interest, David Green issues “A Call To Linguistic Disobedience.” In his essay, Green argues that some of the most basic linguistic techniques used to describe the state of American politics (or, to “define the situation”) – such…
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Palahniuk at the Castro Theatre
On July 16, Chuck Palahniuk will be at the Castro Theatre in conversation with Rumpus contributor Tom Barbash. Last month, Palahniuk released Invisible Monsters Remix, a “director’s cut” hardcover of a novel he first published in 1999. In the new edition,…
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Impersonation and Self-Portraiture
On July 14, SF MoMA will be opening a retrospective of the work of photographer Cindy Sherman. Starting with her series Untitled Film Stills, Sherman’s photographs have consistently challenged the limits, meaning, and power of self-portraiture. In an article for the New York…
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What Really Happened? We Still Don’t Know
At The New Yorker, novelist and Pulitzer Prize jury member Michael Cunningham has written a two-part essay about why there was no Prize awarded for fiction this year for the first time since 1977. The essay, while coming from a source one…
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Gender and the Job
“It’s hard to imagine a young woman’s stripper story serving as an allegory to critique capitalism: woman loses home in foreclosure so now she loses her bra.” At The New Inquiry, Elizabeth Greenwood reviews Steven Soderbergh’s new film Magic Mike, paying close attention…
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The View from a “Cramped Little Cottage” in Nairobi
“I love the tingling pullover of night sounds and forest sounds and the bite of cold breeze and distant cars and stereos. Sometimes I close my eyes and sway my arms into patterns to move with the sensations of the…
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Chris Andrews on Translation
“Sometimes the people who lament that global English has become a ‘grey language’ forget that the greyness predominates in certain social contexts, like business communication, and they forget that while English has been running around the world displacing other languages,…
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I Wish You Were Here
At The Rumpus, we love a good letter, and Tanya Houghton wants you to send her mother postcards. Three years ago Marianne Houghton was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Once an avid traveler, her deteriorating health has left her without an outlet…
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Dirty Projectors’ Clean New Movie
Pitchfork has posted a trailer for funky-afro-prog-pop indie darlings Dirty Projectors’ upcoming short film, “Hi Custodian.” Among the many highlights is the 808 heavy, clap laden introductory track, “Offspring Are Blank,” which is somehow both hymn-like and head-nod-inducing, set against a backdrop…
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No Animals We Could Name
At Full Stop, Ben Jahn reviews Ted Sanders’ new story collection, No Animals We Could Name. The collection, as the title suggests, often skirts the foggy line between the imaginary and the observed, and, for Jahn, challenges the possibility of recounting sensations…
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This Is Not A Blog Post
Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not A Film is being screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley on July 8th. During the film’s production, Panahi was under strict house arrest, and banned from making films. This Is Not…