Columns
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The best thing about today is looking at midcentury hotels of New Jersey. Here is how Facebook is targeting you. What is life but a hidden codex inside a different codex? Let’s all go on a conspiracy theorist cruise! Here…
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Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
“Mouth” explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey.
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Punk Magic
Over at Hazlitt, Tobias Carroll writes about the intersection of punk and magic in various fictional works, from The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell to the Hellblazer comics and Buffy the Vampire Slayer—a surprisingly varied history of what might, at first,…
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Just Kidding
Heads up, Harry Potter fans: the staff over at VICE confirm that J.K. Rowling will be coming out with three more short stories about Hogwarts. The stories will provide background to some of the secondary characters in the Harry Potter series:…
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The Book as Scholarship
At Open Letters Monthly, Rohan Maitzen questions the measurement of scholarly value in academia, and suggests scholars should reevaluate the book as the be-all, end-all when it comes to informing others in their field of new developments.
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Call Center Blues
We’re always happy to celebrate our friends’ work, so we’re pleased to announce that Rumpus alum Casey Dayan has released a new single with his band, Mootheband. Listen to the track, “Call Center Blues,” after the jump, and stay tuned for more Mootheband,…
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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…
