Harmony Holiday, the poet pick for this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book selection, was featured in the Boston Review for National Poetry Month, this past April. There are multi-sensory ways to…
“The point is that while we cherish open-ness or dialogue, we relish our closed structures and cordoned-off and privileged hallways. Academic blogging, to this graduate student, was a way out…
Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Alex Gallo-Brown’s recent “Where I Write” essay “awesome sauce.” Thanks Coates, we love you back! Update: You can read our interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates…
The Internet Archive is now setting its sights on physical space, aiming to preserve one copy of every book, record and movie they obtain. As Google Books makes it increasingly…
All roads lead to the philosophy wikipedia article. The NY Times wants us to think about Jellyfish. Ok! Men in high heeled shoes in art. Can we all agree that…
Profanity can be somewhat polarizing, but why not appreciate all the incidentally humorous and intensified moments that come from the foul parts of language? This essay is an ode to…
A twenty year-old French law that sought to keep the news media from promoting commercial enterprises is being newly reinforced. This means that using “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air is…
Jane Goodall speaks with Bill Moyers about the work she has done, not just with chimpanzees, but with creating a better world for our children and grandchildren to live in.
They hated the ending. I knew they would. They always hate the ending. “They” means my university students. “The ending” means the last chapters of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding…
How did I miss NASA’s new deep-space vehicle? On the dark art of Heavy Metal umlauts. (via @SandiV.) The Venice Biennale has the best ATMs in the world. Hollywood’s gunslinging…
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott evaluate what is boring and why, in the context of film. They discuss the films that are deemed boring because they don’t distract enough from…
This week in San Francisco, Quiet Lightening strikes at 111 Minna with Rob Brezsny of Free Will Astrology fame, Michael Krasny hosts an evening with Vendela Vida and Jennifer Egan…