Columns
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Tech, Humanity, Language, and Romance
For JSTOR Daily, Matt Langione reviews the current state of artificial intelligence, and the strides AI technology must make to fully complement human thought and experience. The latest step, Langione notes, is the news that Google began improving its “natural…
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/15–8/21
Monday 8/15: Brian Hastings presents and signs Song of the Deep. 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Ann Royal Nicholas discusses and signs The Muffia. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 8/16: The RwIrGiHtTe Read presents James Cushing, David Gale, Armine Iknadossian, and…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Naseem Jamnia considers memories, genetics, and what gets passed down from one generation to the next. She writes, “The brain is a curious, malleable thing, and just as cigarette smoke and alcohol can be tucked…
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The Fire Every Time
“Will the world my pains deride forever?” At Lit Hub, Precious Rasheeda Muhammad traces the lineage of black protest writing from W.E.B. De Bois to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Kendrick Lamar: how the layers of subtext in each iteration work to…
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You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
Liz Fischer Greenhill reviews You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein today in Rumpus Books.
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History as Structure
In a Q & A with debut novelist Yaa Gyasi on the ZYZZYVA blog, Ismail Muhammad asks Gyasi to expound on narrative structure and the far-reaching effects of the international slave trade: I realized that I was interested in tracking how slavery, colonialism,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
An incredibly important story to start your week: Wawa vs Sheetz. The untold story of neuroscience’s most famous brain. I wish someone would grow ME a comb jellyfish. Elsewhere in the ocean: the oldest living vertebrate is a 400-year-old Greenland…
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The Rumpus Interview with Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg talks about her new collection, Locally Made Panties, the possibility of feminist pornography, and curating her Rumpus column, (K)ink: Writing While Deviant.
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Notable Twin Cities: 8/14–8/20
Sunday 8/14: Celebrate the release of All We Can Hold (Sage Hill Press), an anthology of poems about motherhood. This evening reading at Magers and Quinn will include short performances by Tyler Davis, Kristin Laurel, Freya Manfred, Eva Olsgard, Margaret…
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Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom
John Flynn-York reviews Rosa Liksom’s Compartment No. 6, now out from Graywolf in an English translation, today in Rumpus Books.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Skinning the Wildcat
My son was not born my son. My son was born my daughter.
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Notable NYC: 8/13–8/19
Saturday 8/13: Jersey City celebrates books with the Chilltown Literary Festival. WORD Jersey City and FJB Comics, 11 a.m., free. Sunday 8/14: K.T. Billey, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Stephen Langlois join the Sundays At Erv’s Reading series. Erv’s, 6 p.m.,…