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The Day The Newspaper Died
The New Yorker‘s Jill Lepore on the birth of the newspapers and the current newspaper death watch. Lepore places the newspaper in context of early American political struggle and how even Thomas...
View ArticleWhat’s Changed
Two years from now, Wonder Woman will appear in her first live action movie. But can a feminist superhero born in 1941 represent women’s issues in 2016?Wonder Woman’s debt is to feminism. She’s the...
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Noah Berlatsky
In a world where online feminist discourse is largely defined by female voices, Noah Berlatsky’s work strikes me as especially important. As a self-described feminist, Berlatsky is interested in...
View ArticleWriting the Oral History of Our Time
Nearly everything Gould ever held in his hands slipped away. He lost his glasses; he lost his teeth. “I keep losing fountain pens, change, and even manuscripts,” he wrote. “I lost my diary in the...
View ArticleAs a Matter of Fact
The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore laments the devaluation of truth in politics with the rise of “big data”:The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held by “facts” is being taken over by...
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What to Read When You Want to Feel Thankful
November is upon us, and whether the temperatures are dropping where you live or remaining unseasonably warm, Thanksgiving is just around the corner. At The Rumpus, we’ve decided to kick off the...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 10/11–10/17
Thursday 10/11: Author Madeline ffitch, author of Valparaiso, Round the Horn and the forthcoming Stay and Fight, reads from her latest writing as part of the Reed College Visiting Writers Series. Eliot...
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