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I took a break this weekend from reading Eula Biss‘s On Immunity to go hear Biss speak as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Biss’s book is a study of both the history of and current wild...
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On Immunity by Eula Biss
One day I picked my toddler up from his Montessori school and, along with the usual bags of laundry and lunch detritus, I was handed a slip of paper informing me that during his day at school my son...
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The Big Idea #10: Eula Biss
The cover art for Eula Biss’s new book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, surprised me at first. I’d expected something stark and edgy—maybe a shiny hypodermic needle against a blank background—to...
View ArticleIn the Name of Fear
It’s very hard to imagine a president getting up and talking about how damaging the fear of terrorism has been to us, culturally and politically, and how much it’s horribly undermined us. Looking at...
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Growing Up: The Rumpus Interview with Michelle Tea
Once upon a time, Michelle Tea was a feral baby femme-bot smashing drums in a sleeveless T, her blackened rocker locks tossing sweat on her thin, powerful tattooed arms in scruffy grunge bars. In those...
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What to Read When the President Cuts Funding for Everything Good
Yesterday morning, Trump’s administration released their proposed budget. While additional programs may also be on the chopping block, programs specifically named in the proposal include after-school...
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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...
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It’s Just Reality: Talking with Meaghan O’Connell
Four years ago, Meaghan O’Connell had a baby. A few months later, she wrote the nearly 15,000-word story of that birth, sent in installments to friends—and eventually strangers—who subscribed to her...
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Here Is the Physical Proof: Talking with Elizabeth Rush
The debate over climate has often been defined by politicians and interest groups, its effects dismissed as a problem felt by people in faraway island nations. But in her new book, Rising: Dispatches...
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Last week, Aubrey Nolan offered up illustrated book-gifting recommendations for children. This week, we’re turning our attention to the 18+ crowd. We’ve asked our editors to give us their favorite...
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Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss
In her latest book, Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, September 2020) Eula Biss creates a diorama of what capitalism looks like in a privileged, middle-class life. Comprised of short pieces,...
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