African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com When I started reading poetry scholarship as an undergraduate, I struggled to figure out how critics were doing what they were doing. My...
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...
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...
Violent Motion, 1
...the Specter of Lynching," in A Companion to Early Cinema. Gaudreault, André, Nicolas Dulac, and Santiago Hidalgo, eds. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 So in a film from the last years...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...doesn’t drive some black Ford with a two-way radio.' —Joan Didion, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' From Slouching Towards Bethlehem, p. 116. The occurrence of appearance should come as no surprise. Fashion...
African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
...Image | Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com The Table of Contents to Hope Wabuke’s The Leaving anatomizes: the first poem is titled “Mind” and the final word in the...
The Great Leap Forward
...this Sunday’s celebration of Frederic Tuten’s The Adventures of Mao on the Long March at www.MaoMarathon.com Patrick Harrison edits If You Can Read This You’re Lying JW McCormack is...
It Gets Worse
...– shatters the wall between, drawing a straight line from unrequited puppy love to rape, from compulsory schooling to suicide. Odd Future aren’t the only artists to tackle this disturbing...
No Kings of New York
...wrote the album in five days. P.O.S.: No Kings is our first real collaborative album. It typically takes a lot longer. The others were more like compilations, and we wanted...
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...that examines the strategies women in health fields employed in their autobiographical literature to navigate the shifting social and medical norms of the 19th century. Contact: [email protected] or www.amandacutaiabarnett.com...
Disband West Virginia
...level, it will only impede development of a sustainable organ harvesting industry, all the while failing to empty the state completely. Yet if poisoning the water for 300,000 people is...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...reviewers make it sound like Adichie’s third novel is a refraction of its author’s glamor, an aesthetic commodity to be consumed. Yemisi Ogbe wrote a long review in Chimurenga, for...
if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to...
As crazy, as crazy, as crazy as I am /
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZBLAovd28 / nothing can parallel the very non-parallel fact of those pants and that floor...
Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...“I can’t wait to upload this!” Recording and sharing our response to natural beauty promises a kind of feedback loop; it rechannels our reactions back to ourselves almost as they...
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...