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A History That Looks Forward: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

  • Beau Lee Gambold
  • June 7, 2022
. . . there are still, and always have been, other ways [of living].
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On Queer Love in the Anthropocene

  • Jessi O’Rourke-Suchoff
  • March 1, 2017
Four syllables, ever so lightly punctuated by the softest consonants, announcing a tragic, apocalyptic shift in global time.
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Spotlight: Eamon Murphy’s “The Test”

  • Eamon Murphy
  • February 14, 2017
“The Test” tells a brief, hypothetical history of the human civilization in the wake of an ominous interaction with an intergalactic deity.
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Arrival: A Metaphor for Polemic Times

  • Shannon Lell
  • December 15, 2016
We are disconnected. Connection fails when we fail to take the time to literally, and therefore metaphorically, see each other.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of The Martian

  • Louise Fabiani
  • October 24, 2015
It is the story of an astronaut stranded on Mars for about a year, all by himself.
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The Rumpus Interview with Richard Ford

  • Ben Pfeiffer
  • November 26, 2014
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Ford discusses his new book, Let Me Be Frank With You, how metaphor shapes our world, and why he doesn't like the idea he has a battery to recharge.
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Composing the Wilderness: An Essay on the Nested and Dynamic Model of Nature, Humanity, and Technology

  • Ryan Boudinot
  • December 8, 2010
In July, 2010, I delivered a keynote address at Goddard College’s MFA Writing residency in Port Townsend, Washington, on the theme “Composing the Wilderness.” This essay is included in an…
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