This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Posts Tagged: bones
Bones of Buried Kings
What makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
...moreDan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax? Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second? In 1938, a scientist recorded the heartbeat of a man being executed. Medieval diseased bones now in 3D! Here are some beautiful old charts of mountains’ and rivers’ comparative […]
...moreLovely Bones
Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep thinking about skeletons. This Lapham’s Quarterly piece by Matthew Leib starts with a science teacher perching hip bones behind his head and “declar[ing] in a deranged falsetto that he [is] Mickey Mouse,” then meanders through memento mori and satires of the danse macabre before coming full circle […]
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