The Novelty of African Poetry
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
Love Worth Fighting For
...among cheaply made goods and multinational brands. In retrospect, the song the Beatles came up with for the event is well-suited to that conundrum: “All You Need Is Love.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk&feature=player_embedded...
Jul, One Year Later
...Refugee Camp. Juliano Mer-Khamis was killed one year ago today when a masked gunman shot him five times—some accounts say seven—as he sat in his red Citroën. He died...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...Sarah Dickerson (used with permission). Boston is a city perennially self-conscious about public art. A recent Boston Phoenix cover story examined why so many young artists leave a city ranked...
Domesticated WildCats
...robot needs to negotiate difficult terrain. [...] Cheetahs happen to be beautiful examples of how natural engineering has created speed and agility across rough terrain. Our Cheetah bot borrows ideas...
Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-jdMbe6e3g 34 dead and 78 wounded. From clouds of toxic gas Tear gas, likely not the British-designed CR gas (dibenzoxazepine) with nerve agent used during apartheid...
Iranophobia 2.0
...anything about Iran. That would be your best bet. The Apple legal policy that store managers showed Viteri is merely a compliance document stating U.S. embargoes on prohibited sales with...
Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology
...through which humans progressed until they reached its zenith, the European man. For example, in his 1864 paper in The Quarterly Journal of Science , geologist William King compared a...
Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...available information even as it seems we can make it dance at our command. The apparent miracles of discovery, of uncovering details you can’t believe someone else thought to organize,...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...Québec à Montreal (UQAM) and sociology grad students at Université Laval — wound through downtown Montreal and onto the McGill campus, there chanting “UQAM, McGill, même combat!” At a march...
Sunday Reading
...for a Good Job? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up The fantasy of fetal personhood http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/08/mission-high-false-low-performing-school Syria: Neither Riyadh nor Tehran but Popular Revolution Teju Cole on going blind. Jane...
African Poetry: Safia Elhillo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I am writing this—I am starting this writing—while sitting in the International Lounge of the hospital. It’s business comfortable, and it reminds me...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
The Literary Community Presents: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!
...Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus Learn more and RSVP on Facebook Sliding scale. $20 donation recommended but pay what you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706884381/happy-baby-the-movie/posts/354932...