the new york times
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More on Amazon’s Assholery
“As I see it, the problem with Amazon stems from the fact that though it started out as a bookseller, it isn’t anymore, not really. It sells everything now, and it sells it all aggressively. Maybe Amazon doesn’t care about…
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This Week in Love and Shame and Love
“Teeming yet not hyperactive, full of emotion without being mushy, elegant yet intimate, this is a book that gets into your head and makes itself at home there.” That is praise from The New York Times’ review of Peter Orner’s…
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Coelho On Internet Sharing
“Mr. Coelho continues to give his work away free by linking to Web sites that have posted his books, asking only that if readers like the book, they buy a copy, “so we can tell to the industry that sharing…
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Family Tree Shake-Up
Fossils found in a South African cave may be “the most plausible known ancestor of archaic and modern humans,” argue the scientists who discovered the bones, citing the combination of apelike and human features in the newfound species—dubbed Australopithecus sediba.…
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A MODERN READER #7: Newspapers? Newspapers!
Last March, when the New York Times announced they would be erecting a pay wall, I knew I would pay it.
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Dan Savage (and readers) on Monogamy
If you’re anything like me, after you’ve finished reading an article, you head straight for the comments section to see what your fellow human beings have to say. I recently spent a chunk of my afternoon reading a seven-page article…
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Respond to the Times Article
If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting a letter to the editor or op-ed.
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Aw Shucks
“Interestingly, I’ve found The Rumpus a lot more compelling lately than the New York Times. I oscillate between really worrying about old, venerable print pubs and feeling like I don’t want to be part of attacking them and making them…
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Science Is Having Second Thoughts About Booze
“Alcohol in moderation is good for you.” This has been the conclusion of countless scientific studies. That apple a day to keep the doctor away, according to researchers, should be served with a nice glass of Pinot. Many (myself excluded…
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Happy Bloomsday!
Today is the 105th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s one-day passage through the ordinary streets of Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Dubliners and Joyce-lovers around the world are celebrating the author as well as the book, with readings, races, reenactments, and…
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The Modest Mogel and the Grey Lady
David Geffen, one of Hollywood’s most hallowed players, has roused the newspaper industry with his recent offer to purchase a large stake in the the New York Times. On May 11, Fortune Magazine revealed that Geffen was shopping for the…