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The Rumpus Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar

  • Kate Harloe
  • January 23, 2017
Larissa MacFarquhar discusses her book Strangers Drowning, why she finds nonfiction so compelling, and how she gets inside the minds of her subjects.
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The Rumpus Interview with André Alexis

  • Ann van Buren
  • January 2, 2017
André Alexis discusses his latest book The Hidden Keys, puzzles, chance, divinity, and the Toronto literary community.
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Superman Is a Bad Translation

  • Kyle Williams
  • November 7, 2016
For Slate, Shon Arieh-Lerer and Daniel Hubbard provide a video rundown of pop culture’s use of Nietzsche, starting with contemporaneous forces made his philosophy be mangled by Nazi power and ending…
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Into Paradox

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 31, 2016
Over at the New York Review of Books, Peter E. Gordon writes about Søren Kierkegaard’s legacy through the lens of Daphne Hampson’s biography, Kierkegaard: Exposition and Critique, which she dedicates…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathon Keats

  • A.E. Osworth
  • October 7, 2016
Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats discusses Buckminster Fuller, three-wheeled cars, domed cities, climate change, and cameras with a 100-year exposure time.
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Ritvo

  • Sarah Blake
  • September 21, 2016
Max Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
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The Forbidden Maths

  • Michelle Vider
  • July 26, 2016
Gabrielle Emanuel writes for NPR’s Education section on the history of math education. Emanuel explores how basic mathematics were kept from becoming the common knowledge they are today, due to…
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Captain of My Soul

  • Roxie Pell
  • July 19, 2016
For the New Yorker, Rachel Aviv profiles philosopher Martha Nussbaum: Like Narcissus, she says, philosophy falls in love with its own image and drowns.
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The Hope Whose Death It Announces

  • Roxie Pell
  • June 28, 2016
Poetry is defined by a failure to live up to the hype it generates, promising divine transcendence through a medium that is essentially human. This is the paradox Ben Lerner…
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Summer of Love

  • David Breithaupt
  • June 7, 2016
Charlotte Shane, best known for her newsletter portraying her life as a sex worker and philosopher, Prostitute Laundry, now has a column at Fusion. Her collected writings are also available in…
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Tennis as Art Form

  • Kyle Williams
  • May 23, 2016
Understanding tennis as aesthetic phenomenon involves returning to that word Wallace insists on using in his discussion of Federer: beauty. At Guernica, Greg Chase discusses the new collection of David…
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Mind Over Genre

  • Theodora Messalas
  • May 6, 2016
Over at Lit Hub, Jennifer R. Bernstein confronts the disciplinary rift that has grown between psychology and literature to show how the two are linked, even nested inside one another…
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