Columns
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Readers Report: The Emperor’s New Clothes
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
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Weekly Geekery
Writers gonna smoke (smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke). Find a Swedish latte papa to father your kids, says science. Fiction loves it some talking trees.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Revolution Books in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan is literally advocating for real revolution. Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon spent Inauguration Day handing out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. Dallas, Texas is getting an independent bookstore.
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
Sheba Karim reviews Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Psst… Uber is pretty awful. So you want to be an asteroid miner. Maybe it’s time for some new deep sea footage to remind us that not everything is awful. Here are you Soviet welcome signs for the day. On…
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Who Run the World?
Look through these images, and feel proud. Feel inspired. Know that yes, the battle is uphill and will be hard-won, but it will be won.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Nicky Beer
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail from poet Nicky Beer! Nicky sends us a letter crammed with all of the experiences she has during her first twenty-four hours in Spain. To read about Nicky’s adventures in Spain, subscribe…
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This Week in Books: Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an important part of our toolkit…
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R.I.P.: Inauguration Day
Instead of mourning in solitude, let us sob together. Let us soak communally in our fear. Let us hyperventilate, our breasts heaving in unison.
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/23–1/29
Tuesday 1/24: Brad Schreiber reads from and signs Revolution’s End. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. The Atlantic‘s James Hamblin presents his new book If Our Bodies Could Talk, joined in conversation with illustrator Hallie Bateman. 7:30 p.m. at The Last…
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Weekend Roundup Rumpus
First, in the Saturday Essay, the search for love winds through cities and settles in unexpected spaces in Meghan O’Dea’s “Everything We Ever Needed.” Meanwhile, our very own Comics Editor Brandon Hicks shares “three things” from his drawing table in “Triple…
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Girlfriends, Ghosts and Other Stories by Robert Walser
Rafel Fernández reviews Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser today in Rumpus Books.