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Magazine offices are the new Detroit. A quality short story. The winner of the second annual World Building of the Year award: the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre. NY Times on the…
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The Dark Side of Sustainability
Curtis White’s essay in the new Tin House, “A Good Without Light,” contemplates the dark side of sustainability. In a word, he argues that sustainability, as a philosophy, is a…
Why Do Serial Killers Always Keep a Scrapbook…
or talk in riddles, or compose weird rhymes about their crimes? This story, by this great writer, is like a real life Silence of the Lambs!
Notable New York, This Week 11/9 – 11/15
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Rivka Galchen at Harper’s Magazine’s The Family Table, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk, Mary Gaitskill, John Turturro, and Eric Bogosian at…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #10
I’m sure they’re dolphins, Doug. Well then you can slather some SPF 80 on your pussy and sit here on the beach with the rest of the moms. I rented this boogie board for…
Morning Coffee
In 1924 the Navy was ordered to listen for martians. The Italian Futurist pasta sauna. You’ve probably seen things like this a million times, but damn it sometimes you just…
Yeti Researcher Reconsidered, By a Smarty Pants English Student
I guess I finally rode McSweeney’s coattails into a graduate English department: McSweeney’s 17 forms a key part of the honors thesis of one Flora Feltham, at the University of…
Let There Be Light
Did you know that for 800 million years after the Big Bang there was darkness — until the re-ionization of the gas throughout the universe enabled the first rays of…
November 9th: The Monthly Rumpus in San Francisco
The Rumpus and Wholphin present: Hate To Be Alone
FUNNY WOMEN #6: Finally! A Job That Requires My Skill Set
Please only apply if you are a proven insomniac who would not think of getting into an office before noon.
One Tongue?
In John McWhorter’s World Affairs article “The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English,” he asks if it would be “inherently evil if there were not 6,000 languages spoken but one?”