Clik here to view.
The Rumpus Interview with Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s bestselling nonfiction works include The Psychopath Test, Them: Adventures with Extremists, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, which is the only one of his books to become a film starring...
View ArticleThe Sociopath’s Side of the Story
With the recent spate of writing about sociopathy—including Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test and a New York Times story on possibly psychopathic children—it was only a matter of time before we got a...
View ArticleShaming Public Shaming
What makes this book an uncomfortable, if distant, cousin of GamerGate and men’s rights activist logic is that it, too, relies on a series of false equivalencies and muddy distinctions in order to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#Betrayal: On Instagram, Is Hell Other Women?
When I discovered the telltale texts, I wrote Sidechick, a stranger across the country, an Instagram comment. “Cute pictures. You have a girlfriend. You don’t need to talk to mine anymore.”Sidechick...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Glancy
Robert Glancy’s irreverent sense of humor takes center stage in his cutting and insightful sophomore novel, Please Do Not Disturb, a book many critics will surely take at face value as a critique of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Healthcare
Health insurance in America may not be perfect, or even close to, but Barack Obama brought us nearer to a fair system that allows access to healthcare for more Americans than we’d ever been. The new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Notable NYC: 8/4–8/10
Saturday 8/4: Red Bloom, a communist collective, presents a selection of readings from Capitalism and Slavery. Unnameable Books, 2 p.m., free. Sunday 8/5: Elizabeth Palamara, Dana Jaye, and Caitlin...
View Article
