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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Six Erasure Poems by Alison Thumel

  • Alison Thumel
  • March 26, 2017
Give amnesty. / Which birthright / is perpetual / and whose is made? / One sentence / should be kept: / I had a body / to believe.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • January 19, 2016
Should Facebook decide what qualifies as tragedy? How can technology shape stories beyond how they are displayed? Herzog on reality. Would our Founding Fathers approve of copyright law?
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Dreger

  • Angela Chen
  • August 12, 2015
Alice Dreger discusses her latest book, Galileo’s Middle Finger, the relationship between science and social justice, and the state of modern academia.
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The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis

  • Robert Rosenberger
  • July 16, 2015
Robert Rosenberger reviews The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Damien Ober

  • Jim Ruland
  • November 14, 2014
Damien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin's Dream America.
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Jefferson and Hamilton by John Ferling

  • Damien Ober
  • December 16, 2013
Damien Ober reviews John Ferling's JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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