The Rumpus Review of Melancholia
Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s new apocalyptic parlor drama, is a depressive’s feast, a vision of the end of the world as mercy killing.
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Songs of Our Lives: Simon & Garfunkel’s “America”
It’s Christmas morning, 2001 and I’m fifteen. I unwrap a record player, but am more immediately captivated by the record collection that comes with it.
O Circular Philosopher
The field is integral, too, to Dan Beachy-Quick’s Circle’s Apprentice—the field of vision, field of the empty page and of the populated page, field of self/ body/maker, absence of field.…
Talks with Teachers #2: The Idea of Duality
In 2005, before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the New Orleans public education system was one of the worst in the nation.
Grossman’s Magnum Opus
In his latest novel, To the End of the Land, Israeli novelist David Grossman encapsulates the magical thinking of a country that could easily not exist.
An Open Love Letter to Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
The New York Times recently ran an article about an Egyptian blogger named Aliaa Magda Elmahdy who posted a naked photo of herself on her blog, to the distress and disgust of…
You Weren’t Born By Yourself
In Touch, Cole once again breaks into new territories of form, subject, and voice, channeling pleasure and pain into a collection of poems that triumphs in the face of their…
The Rumpus Interview with Carolyn Cooke
In Carolyn Cooke’s recent novel, Daughters of the Revolution, Cooke set the mark of her anger, along with her exquisite sentences, on the ultimate crucible of American male power.
A Really Good and Interesting Book
The ineffable David Shrigley has a new book of drawings out, appropriately titled What the Hell Are You Doing?
The Politics of Narrative
The first lie: money. The second: property (and borders). The third: government. The fourth: story.