SATURDAY HISTORY LESSON: Hans Christian Anderson as Charles Dickens’ Houseguest
Though ideally it’s always mutual, as in any romance, a friendship can suffer from an imbalance of commitment.
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On Eminem as an Essayist
I want to say that I am talking and thinking and writing about Eminem lately because he’s released another album, and it’s blowing my fucking mind, but that isn’t it.…
THE WEEK IN GREED #11: The Ayn Rand Program
I know I’m supposed to write about Paul Ryan, because he’s the new media brand, but I’m having trouble getting the guys in the Give-A-Shit Department on board.
The Rumpus Interview with Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola hardly needs an introduction.
The Last City I Loved: Dublin
When an Irish person up and leaves for the United States, oftentimes the party thrown in their honor is referred to as an American Wake.
An American Problem: The Shooting of Mollie Olgin and Mary Kristene Chapa
From about the time I was 13 until I graduated high school, I had bullies.
The Rumpus Interview With Joel Stein
At age 27, Joel Stein was hired by Time magazine as a staff writer. In many ways, Stein quickly turned the decades-old publication — revered, traditional, dry — on its…
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…
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.