Another day another South Korean parrot looking dinosaur. Let’s talk about the worlds most expensive book, shall we? Sometimes, when it comes to large rolling mechanical planetariums, you just have…
Hey Los Angeles! Please join us TONIGHT, December 7, at 7:30 pm, for a Rumpus Women reading featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Antonia Crane, Kathleen Alcott and Julie Greicius. Hosted by Stephen…
Julian Assange was arrested today in Britain. Here’s some background on the charges* Assange has an editorial in today’s Australian. How is Wikileaks like L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry? Visa and Mastercard have…
A little Northern Lights porn for you. Nerd news of the week: Lieberman wants to create S.H.I.E.L.D. for reals. A look at some pretty rad museums. Any opportunity to discuss…
This week in San Francisco, Granta at City Lights, literature meets food at Feast of Words and to-the-death battle at Literary Death Match, and Believer Magazine hangs out at Electric…
This week in New York, FSG Reading Series is back, ASK ME celebrates the holidays, Denis Leary tells us to Suck on this Year, Gigantic celebrates with tacos, Darin Strauss defends…
Why pandas don’t want to eat you (anymore). The Atlantic brings you your great ideas of 2010. Monday is a good day for octopus based propaganda. On Einstein’s fridge. Let…
We don’t do end-of-the-year lists here at The Rumpus–we don’t do lists in general–but I’m very much in favor of linking to gift recommendations, so here’s Ron Slate
First it was Amazon dumping Wikileaks from its servers (though how much Senator Lieberman had to do with it is up for debate), which raises some real questions for everyone…
Radioactive mercury splits unevenly during fission. It’s a completely new form of asymmetric fission. This picture of the Nile at night from the International Space Station is nothing short of…
So, December. So you’re starting a PAC and you need a name for it, something bland and generic and completely de-emphasizing your plan to replace all the caffeinated coffee in…