The Rumpus Interview with Craig Yoe
Was Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster mad at DC Comics–or even his own creations–for betraying him? Was he taking some sort of delight in putting his characters through this alternate world?…
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Frontiers in Reading
It’s not only boy wizards and teen vampires who can still ignite a book frenzy: as already reported in The Rumpus, Haruki Murakami’s two-volume (or longer?) new novel 1Q84 came…
The Gotham Style
There’s a fantastic article on Life Without Buildings, Jimmy Stamp’s blog about architecture out of context, on how Gotham City came to have the look we know from the Tim…
The Rumpus Interview with Thomas Voorhies
Thomas Voorhies is a Los Angeles-based painter and screenwriter. The intimate discomfort of his portraits is counterbalanced by a lush, sensual style. His canvases compartmentalize his concerns, frame his worries,…
Elle et Elle
“Excluding men and showing only women is a revolutionary gesture of affirmative action. But the museum is avant-garde. It’s part of the Centre Pompidou culture to do things differently. And we…
The Art of Science 2009
Princeton University’s Art of Science 2009 competition is a collection of 48 works that reflect the theme of “found art.”
In the Art Rags
The future and the past converge in this month’s art coverage. Fecal Face interviews Damon Soule about having multiple dreams at the same time. Gene Moreno and Ernesto Oroza tell…
Beasts at the Border
The subjects—animal and human—in Amy Stein’s beautiful collection of photographs, “Domesticated,” find themselves at the uneasy intersection of nature and civilization. Her strange and discomforting—but also sometimes amusing—images capture man…
Rabbit Reduxion – Looking back at Updike
In the wake of losing several authors of extreme significance this last year, David Foster Wallace, Studs Terkel, and now John Updike, a bevy of reflection floods in. Search for…
Shiny, Decadent, and Seedy: A One-Question Interview with Hally McGehean
As a teenager, Hally McGehean was the most glamorous person I knew. When I was seventeen I was in love with her.