Love under Capitalism: Sally Rooney’s Normal People
[I]n Normal People love acts as a school.
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Posts Tagged: William James
The Genius and the Nobody: Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions
Make it new, the modernists said. But how to rebuild the living body?
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Three Collections in Two Volumes by August Kleinzahler
Be stunned by Kleinzahler’s poetry in the far ports of your body.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin talks about The Dead Ladies Project and The Creative Tarot, founding Bookslut, why she has an antagonistic relationship with the publishing industry, and her estrangement from modern feminism.
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For National Poetry Month Days 25 & 26, Christian Anton Gerard and Ada Limon provide us with poems of love and luck. Then, Sean Donovan has good things to say in his Saturday Review of the film It Follows, a “clever” tribute to John Carpenter and the horror cinema of the 80s. It Follows is refreshing […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: The Amazing Heft of Wendy Ortiz’s Hollywood Notebook
Wendy Ortiz’s writing pushes Lesley Heiser to ask big questions about what makes a war story.
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