It’s not too late to purchase a year-long holiday gift subscription to Letters in the Mail or Letters for Kids. The holiday gift subscription will get you or your loved one twelve…
If you’re pondering the Christ in Christmas this year, you’ll want to check out the pieces we posted this weekend. First, Donna Johnson interviews Erika Rae. Both are former Evangelicals…
Just a reminder, we’re going to be keeping things low-key over in these parts this week. There will be a handful of original content over the week so be sure…
Though the Internet these days isn’t the Wild West it once was, there’s still plenty of vigilante justice going on, from the outing and firing of the man responsible for…
There are about 7 million Maya living in Mexico and parts of Central America, and they’re pretty done with all this apocalypse hoopla. A wonderfully sardonic Reuters report elaborates: “It’s…
If Omar was ‘one of TV’s greatest characters’ it was because of Donnie. The show distinguished itself by laying out a palimpsest of failed American institutions but even within that decentralized…
Cameroonian writer and activist Enoh Meyomesse has been detained for thirteen months–including one month of solitary confinement–at Kondengui Central Prison in Yaoundé, despite the fact that he has yet to…
We’ll be keeping things low key over the next week with a handful of original content over the holidays. Our regular features will return in 2013. See you on the…
The Morning News just announced its 2013 list for the tournament of books! And as they say, “the granddaddy of highbrow bracketology is back!” The list of 16 books will…
E-books have sort of shadowed the art of the book cover. Yet at The New York Times, graphic designers were asked to cast their votes on the best-looking book jackets…
A French bulldog. Big turkey dinners. Happiness. At The Atlantic, Rumpus pal Jon Cotner has taken another stroll through New York City streets to pose blunt, fun questions to strangers.…
Again with the lists. 2012 in space photos. Maybe the answer to our Earth problems lie in Tau Ceti. Perhaps you have wondered, why do we have magma? (More) mid-century…