Features & Reviews
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Hersh Inaugurates Center for Investigative Reporting @ BU
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh presided over the inauguration of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University, a non-profit, university-based organization dedicated to training the next generation of investigative reporters.
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The Life of Ferlinghetti
Chris Felver’s doc about Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a little rough around the edges, with jumpy editing and a tendency to wander away from the subject of the moment without adequate explanation, but it’s an engaging film all the same, featuring a wealth of archival footage, home…
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Elizabeth Wurtzel on the Mental Instability of the Founding Fathers
In “The Pop Culture Clause,” Elizabeth Wurtzel’s essay in the new issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Wurtzel asserts that American culture has produced Elvis, blue jeans and the gold rush because the Framers of the Constitution…
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The Exile and the Nomad Are Cousins: The Rumpus Original Combo with Ana Menendez
Ana Menendez’s new novel, The Last War, deals with Iraq, infidelity, self-deception, and exile.
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Herbert Gold on Saul Bellow, Extracted from Pushcart XXXII
The last few days, I’ve been boxing up some of my books in preparation to donate them to a good cause, about which more will be said when the appropriate time comes. Among these books are nine editions of The…
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Muse Me
“Whatever happened to the Muse? She was once the female figure–deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife–whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration.” –Lee Siegel, Where Have All the Muses Gone?, from The Wall Street Journal Below is a shorthand…
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The beat goes on – Remembering Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones, one of the most influential jazz drummers, most known for his work with John Coltrane, died this week five years ago, on May 18th, 2004. Adam Mansbach, who is recently well known for his novel Angry White Black…
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The Girlfriend Experience and Why We Are All in Grave Danger
Steven Soderbergh’s new movie combines porn’s storylessness with the brutality and bad improv of Reality tv, in an assault on complexity and honesty.
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The Rumpus Interview With Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan discusses Family Planning, Indian literature, and the recent attacks in Mumbai.
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The Last Book We Loved
We present to you all of the “Last Book I Loved” entries to date, a library of lovers, the anthology of all our little darlings. Indulge.
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For the love of God, we are not Generation Y
A little while ago, I got sick of hearing that my generation—which for some God awful reason is called Generation Y—was spoiled, lazy and stupid, all while we were fighting wars (one of which, I seem to remember, we were…
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This Book Will Self Destruct in 5-4-3…
“Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them, or give them away if we do. Moreover, it is absurd to print every book as if it were fated to last…