Reelings #5: TO THE WONDER
Malick seems to be interested in what is outside and underneath and around the framework of our lives. He's not interested in the stories we tell as much as the moments that cause us to throw our hands up into the air.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #44: And Another Day
David Bowie, who isn't doing press for his new album The Next Day, provides Rick Moody with a workflow diagram for the album. A Rumpus exclusive.
The Sacred and the Profane
There is a total silence in the West on India’s culture of dissenting women in the face of severe patriarchy and authoritarianism. It doesn’t quite fit, does it, into the dichotomy carved out for Indian women by Americans and the British...
The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Smokler
Reading is a wild act of daring and risk. Reading a book, imagining the world different than how it is where you’re currently standing, is a great psychological, social risk.
Deep Throat #3: On Being and Unbeing A Singer
It would be easy and satisfying to say that I stopped singing because of the crack in my throat. It would be false. It’s true enough that there was one.…
The Rumpus Review of Trance
The dictionary defines memory as “the ability to recall.” For a computer, it’s an exact science when regurgitating programs, data, and facts, but for humans, that process can be ephemeral,…
Making’s Progress; or, A Defense of Poetry
"But how poetry can touch this utmost experience of being, before which language falters, I do not know, and can’t know, I am unable to know–unless I turn to poetry again...”
Drawing the Connection
Art is an act of finding, making, and forcing meaning; a synthesis of witness and imagination; a course that veers always toward empathy.
The Rumpus Interview with Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam's newest work, What The Family Needed, features a range of voices and perspectives, which will be no surprise to readers of his previous book, or to anyone who’s had a glance at his eclectic C.V.
Letter From Boston
I was walking out of MIT’s gym at 11 pm when the loudspeaker came on, telling us that there was a gunman on campus and to shelter in place.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #179
SLIMER ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Slimer.