FUNNY WOMEN #104: Providing Birth Control to American Girl Dolls
At American Girl®, our celebration of girls doesn’t end at puberty--and now neither does our product line!
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These Words All Have Neoflects Coming Off Them
Did you know that, like aglets for the end of a shoelace or tittle for the dot atop an i, there’s a whole delightful host of terms for the visual cues used in…
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Brilliant Take on the Zimmerman Verdict
Not to overload anyone on political coverage, but Ta-Nehisi Coates’s reaction to the George Zimmerman trial is an absolute must-read. In it, he looks at the actual legal text involved in…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey, so we totally found a new moon around Neptune (that we should have found a while ago). Vintage Cuban political posters. Let us now discuss Edison’s last breath. Sometimes…
Caine Prize Controversy Continues
Prominent Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sparked outrage in the African literary community last week with comments she made about the Caine Prize, a prestigious annual award for African writers.…
Mystery Solved: Galbraith is Actually Rowling
If you read Robert Galbraith’s debut novel, a detective thriller called The Cuckoo’s Clock, and thought it was remarkably well constructed for a first-timer, you weren’t alone. Nor were you incorrect:…
The Secret Songs of Plants
Sometime in 2011, Bartholomäus Traubeck noticed a certain similarity between tree rings and grooves on a vinyl record. Being a multimedia artist, he rigged up a turntable that could play…
Notable San Francisco 7/15-7/20
Monday 7/15: National Poetry Slam champion Dominique Ashaheed joins Bay Area poets for this summer’s Lit Slam, a competitive, audience-judged reading performance. $10, 8pm, Viracocha. Tuesday 7/16: Granta celebrates the…
Nick Cave Monday #44: “These Boots are Made for Walkin'”
Punk rock had exploded in New York City and the U.K., but kids in the Southern Hemisphere probably had to pay a lot of money to buy imports or have…
Staving-off-Despair Roundup
When there’s an injustice as great a man walking free after killing an unarmed teenager, at least we have writing to turn to. Our essays editor Roxane Gay has done…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It’s that time again. Time to round up all the Rumpus weekends. Or the weekend Rumpuses. Or something. This weekend, we featured two super-cool interviews. Saturday’s was a lively discussion…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important pizza theory. Our grandparents are way smarter than our parents grandparents. The future of security is old-fashioned typewriters. Yes, I still love 19th century automatons and whimsical machines.…