Columns
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To Speak Unsatisfactorily
To memorialize a tragedy, one must inscribe unmistakable significance into reticent materials, attempting to curb the natural processes of forgetting and obsolescence. For The Nation, Becca Rothfeld writes about W.G. Sebald, author of The Emigrants, among others, and his obsession with…
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The Insanity of Eating
I didn’t usually consider how the binge felt. I just ate until I couldn’t eat anymore.
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Subjectively Sporting
At Hyperallergic, Gretta Louw reviews a new exhibit in Berlin, Contesting/Contexting SPORT. The transdisciplinary exhibit seeks to address the gross fallacy that professional sports can be removed from the politics of race, gender, and policed bodies.
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Save Langston Hughes’s Harlem Home
Award-winning author Renée Watson is fighting to save the house that Langston Hughes lived in through much of the 1950s and 60s, until his death in 1967, Heather Long reports for CNN. Watson launched an Indiegogo campaign to rescue the brownstone and…
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/22–8/28
Monday 8/22: Georgia Clark discusses and signs The Regulars. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 8/23: Nile Green discusses and signs The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Ann Hood…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Interview, Penny Perkins speaks with Ramona Ausubel about Ausubel’s latest novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, her previous collections, and “the ways that stories change the real chemistry of the world.” Then, Jeff Lennon reviews Cynthia Cruz’s…
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The Pleasure of Recognition
Ferrante’s novels about women like Lila and Lenu are a potent reminder that working-class women’s perspectives are out there, even if we can’t always hear each other, even if we’re sometimes embarrassed and alone, even if we feel exasperated by…
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Know the Mother by Desiree Cooper
Stacie Williams reviews Know the Mother by Desiree Cooper today in Rumpus Books.
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The Clinton Reading List
For Mother Jones, Jenny Luna notes the top four books on the current New York Times bestseller list: all books written by conservative writers speaking against Hillary Clinton: As seen with the success of Mitt Romney’s 2010 book, No Apology, sales don’t…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Cemeteries as places of architectural innovation. Great news everybody! Watching horror movies might burn calories! No need to exercise ever again! A quick look at the most desirable least accessible places on earth because isn’t that what the internet is…
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Stibbe
Author Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
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Notable Twin Cities: 8/21–8/27
Wednesday 8/24: Want to bookend your summer with some craft beer and the science of marketing? Join the authors of The Physics of Brand at Surly Brewing Co for Beer, Books & Brands, a release party presented by Magers and…