Endangered Languages
“Different languages highlight the varieties of human experience, revealing as mutable aspects of life that we tend to think of as settled and universal, such as our experience of time,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch this hilariously dated video of a woman walking her pet Leopard in London, because why not. Red light, Blue light? A look at the connection between color and language. Albert…
New Readers Report Theme:
The Gamble
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “The Gamble.” Please…
‘WRITE OR DIE’ AND OTHER SAGE WORDS OF ADVICE
The Guardian profiles a series of computer applications meant to motivate authors through the doldrums of writer’s block. ‘Write or Die’ (whose slightly menacing slogan is “putting the ‘Prod’ back…
László Krasznahorkai at City Lights
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai will be reading at City Lights in San Francisco this Thursday, June 28th. The reading comes soon after the long awaited English release of Krasznahorkai’s 1985 novel,…
Today in the Supreme Court…
My favorite Supreme Court watcher, Dahlia Lithwick, is hosting her yearly round table on SCOTUS decisions over at Slate. Joining her this year are Judge Richard Posner and Professor Walter…
Tomorrow Kickstarter
“Tomorrow is a one-shot magazine about creative destruction—a fitting concept for eight recently unemployed journalists and designers. Our next move: Pushing others to jump out of their comfort zones, too,…
Radiolab Live
Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman profiles Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad for Mother Jones. What happens when a nerdy science show experiments with live stage performances? A sneak peak: “‘Even Charles Darwin himself—Chuck…
“Without the Spectacle, There is Nothing”
At Salon, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay writes about the cheering of Sandusky’s guilty verdict, and our spectacle-centric culture. “The pictures are the story. The videos are the story. The…
Notable San Francisco: 6/25-7/1
This Week in San Francisco: Monday 6/25: Books Inc. Opera Plaza hosts Daily Show contributors Lizz Winstead, author of Lizz Free or Die, and Kevin Bleyer, author of Me the…
Notable New York, This Week 6/25-7/1
This week in NYC: MONDAY 6/25: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya reads from The Watch, and will discuss with Anderson Tepper. McNally Jackson, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 6/26: Also at McNally Jackson, Glen Duncan…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Competence without comprehension. The Wizard of Oz, behind the scenes. An animated short film full of blue: “Backwater.” Human-powered helicopter hovers for 50 seconds.