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Keep the Kevlar Handy: The Rumpus Interview with Mark Slouka

“In America, we tend to think belief trumps knowledge. To tease out the truth from the fabric of lies that surrounds us requires a certain degree of intelligence. Which is bad news for us, alas.

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Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus

I’m not exactly an insider here at The Rumpus. I’m not really an outsider either. I’m the Sunday editor.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #59

HALLOWEEN, 2010 ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Halloween, 2010.

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The Wake of Forgiveness

Bruce Machart’s debut novel channels Cormac McCarthy, while narrating a Southern gothic tale centered around women.

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The Rumpus Interview with Megan Stack

The six years Megan Stack spent in the Middle East reporting for the LA Times began as a sort of emergency assignment and ended with Every Man In This Village…

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An Investigation of Beautiful Objects

Sound logical reasoning would lead a person to conclude that my sustained interest in a document like Nicholas Felton’s Feltron Annual Report is sort of nuts.

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I Would Like Very Much to Hate You: A Rumpus Lamentation

My wife got upset last night, after she heard about the Rand Paul supporters who tackled a progressive activist named Lauren Valle. One of them stepped on her head. Valle…

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Dear Old Dad…

Anthony De Sa’s novel imagines two lives—a father who leaves one country but fails to thrive in another, and the son who spends his life trying to figure him out.

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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #31: Ben Roethlisberger and Flannery O’Connor

Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh quarterback disgraced last spring when a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her in a bar, is back on the field after serving a…

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Keep the Kevlar Handy: The Rumpus Interview with Mark Slouka

Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus

Ted Wilson Reviews the World #59

The Wake of Forgiveness

The Rumpus Interview with Megan Stack

An Investigation of Beautiful Objects

I Would Like Very Much to Hate You: A Rumpus Lamentation

Dear Old Dad…

A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #31: Ben Roethlisberger and Flannery O’Connor

Black Hole Sun

Swinging Modern Sounds #26: The Cessation of Miracles

Teleny and Camille

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