Wings Wands Stars Tulle
These poems have all the instinct and fangs of a canine, and the plush, electric fur of a wolf: the intensity and sheer quality of workmanship in the poems is…
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The Eyeball #41: Talking with Aimee Bender About The 400 Blows
I’ve been writing this column off and on for a few years now and I thought I’d shake it up a bit by turning it into a dialogue.
The Moon Rises
Glen Duncan’s new novel The Last Werewolf is sophisticated and horrifying and elegant and not for Young Adult readers, who would need a thesaurus, a history tutor and sedation.
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Ingersoll, the Hero of PROJECT NIM
In 1973, a psychology professor at Columbia University named Herb Terrace launched a study to see if a chimpanzee raised as a human could learn sign language.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #98
THE DICTIONARY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the dictionary.
The Rumpus Interview with Dave Engelhardt, Pro Bono Lawyer for Guantanamo Detainees
Though Guantanamo Bay is no longer in the daily headlines, it remains very much open and operating. Dave Engelhardt was a pro bono lawyer for several prisoners detained at Guantanamo…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #81: A Bit of Sully in Your Sweet
This isn’t a spotless life. There is much ahead, my immaculate little peach.
To the Language of Doves
Darwish’s identity (and the Palestinian identity) has been, at least partly, developed in exile. Darwish writes: “I am absence./ The heavenly and the expelled.” Here he speaks not only for…
Albums of Our Lives: Shooter Jennings’ Put the O Back in Country
Sometimes the boy you love introduces you to the man you fall in love with. The boy and the man are not the same person. This is not intentional.
Emerging Empathy
In The Chairs Are Where the People Go, Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman explore all topics that Glouberman cares about, including feeling like a fraud, seeing John Zorn play Cobra,…
Lucy’s Profound Restoration: The Trailer for Sleeping Beauty
The trailer for Sleeping Beauty (directed by Julia Leigh, 2011) clocking in at just over one minute and 30 seconds,
Slashed Narcissi, Drilled Stone
In physics terms, the poetry world is underground “all the way down,” so Influence lurks in each sea cave like a bastard eel, recharging in darkness, awaiting his next dinner…