Columns
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It’s All In Your Head…And the Rest of Your Body
You’re probably aware of the placebo effect—because you think it’s real medication, a sugar pill, for example, relieves your pain—but have you heard of its evil twin, the nocebo effect? Through different biological mechanisms, it achieves something very similar to…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Brandon
My favorite thing about John Brandon’s writing are his sentences. They take weird left turns and are compelling for reasons you can’t quite name.
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LARB vs. NYRB
The East Coast and the West Coast have had their spats, but in the end, our respective lit scenes form one big, happy, bicoastal family, right? Right?! That might not seem like the case if you’re following the events outlined…
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Saying “The G-Word” Out Loud
Gentrification is a thorny subject in San Francisco these days, as it is in many American cities. A roundup post at SF Weekly blog The Snitch collects some of the best writing that’s sprung up around the issue, including George Packer’s puzzled look at…
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Hymn for the Black Terrific by Kiki Petrosino
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kiki Petrosino’s Hymn for the Black Terrific today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Three Ways of Looking at Sex and the City
In this week’s New Yorker, TV critic Emily Nussbaum grapples with the cultural legacy of Sex and the City: High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in its conception of character, “Sex and the City” was a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band for the next three plus weeks, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. Here’s some super duper close up shots of animal’s eyeballs! Ever wondered what’s inside a golf…
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Queer American History
This slideshow is a few weeks old, obviously, because it was posted for Independence Day, but there’s no wrong time to read about queer American history. Some topics covered: Was James Buchanan the first gay president? How important was same-sex…
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Advice on Writing for Free
In an “ask a freelancer” column for the Daily Dot, Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn receives a question on too many writers’ minds these days: Should I write for free? Short answer: yes, if you’ll enjoy it and it’ll help you…
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After a Fashion
Like a lot of men these days, the line between what I wear to go to work, to work out, and to sleep has gotten dangerously thin.
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“Have You Ever Seen This Many Women On Screen Together?”
What I can tell you is that throughout every step of creating this show, I’m constantly struck by how many women I’m surrounded by—not just in the room, but beyond it: the cast, the crew, the people in charge on…
