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Women Who Run with the Wolves (and Pandas and Gorillas and Whales)

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 9, 2014
It’s a trend you may never have noticed, but it exists: “women—attractive, single, childless women—have long been coupled with exotic animals. Gentle women and wild animals are linked in myth…
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The New York Comics Symposium: Interview with Jon Lewis

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • September 6, 2013
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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Language Log for Prairie Dogs

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • June 25, 2013
Con Slobodchikoff is a word nerd of a different sort than the ones we usually write about on the Rumpus. After studying prairie dogs for thirty years, he’s concluded that…
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FOLK TALK: Taxidermy

  • Shelagh Power-Chopra
  • June 11, 2013
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A Longform Safari

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • May 29, 2013
Longform.org has been highlighting some amazing stories about animals lately. Like this one about the soulfulness (literally?) of elephants. Or this one about polar bears as creatures, as symbols of global-warming…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Mooallem

  • J.B. Powell
  • May 17, 2013
Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones, sits down to discuss human attitudes towards animals, copulation hats, chasing Martha Stewart across the tundra, and the historical relationship between Thomas Jefferson and mammoths.
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Caribou

  • Adrienne Lindholm
  • December 26, 2012
When you come to my house and eat the caribou stew I’ve made, I want you to feel the rifle heavy as lead in the grip of my hands, the…
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Worst. Water Bed. Ever.

  • Graham Todd
  • May 10, 2012
The Animal Kingdom, specifically the marine insect known as the water skater, has devised a new use for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, using the expanse of pelagic plastics as…
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E.B. White and his Animals

  • Sam Riley
  • June 9, 2011
E.B. White’s anthropomorphisms became childhood story staples, but they were also were a method of expressing himself to his family, and furthermore, significant in the evolution of nature writing. This…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

  • Seth Fischer
  • June 6, 2010
Porn, Christopher Hitchens, snacking on weaker humans … You name it, Rumpus Books has got it. Our weekly roundup below the fold. 
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We’ll Make Great Pets

  • Matt McGregor
  • June 3, 2010
In Don LePan’s dystopian novel, the animals are all extinct and the weaker people have taken their place in the food chain.
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • December 28, 2009
Welcome Back. Check out this sweet door. NY Times brings you the most commonly stolen books. In utero animals, kinda gross, kinda adorable! New Scientist looks back at a year…
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