In Praise of Depression
Not long ago, I had a conversation with a woman fifteen or twenty years older than myself, who told me that she thinks of Prozac as “the penicillin of my…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #147
THE IPHONE ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the iPhone.
SATURDAY HISTORY LESSON: Rebecca West, H.G. Wells, and Anthony Panther West
She’s always the subject of grand narratives about the “strong,” “modern,” or “new” woman
My Body, My Machine
I run so I can inhabit my own body. I run so that in moments like these, when my lack of power in this world becomes more violently apparent, I can feel the strength of my own body, enough to ignore provocations, enough to know alone that I could destroy both of those men if I wanted.
HORN! REVIEWS: How to Get Into the Twin Palms
Kevin Thomas reviews How to Get into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak, Rumpus Comics style.
The Short Swimsuit: A Personal & Historical Account
My short swimsuit was a symbol of bold confidence, and I wore it in defiance—of illness, and who I’d become.
The Rumpus Interview with Phil Milstein
About twenty years ago, Phil X. Milstein damaged the psyches of my miscreant writer and musician friends in the Bay Area.
POLICE LOG COMICS: MARCH 16th PACIFIC GROVE
"One male suspect pointed a handgun at the pizza delivery person..."
