Lovely Bones
Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep thinking about skeletons.This Lapham’s Quarterly piece by Matthew Leib starts with a science teacher perching hip bones behind his head and...
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax?Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second?In 1938, a scientist recorded the heartbeat of a man being...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”
Policing the Real in Literature The definition of nonfiction has long been hegemonic—ruled and policed by sensibilities that conceptually fence off “reality” from fabrication. An insidious form of...
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Bones of Buried Kings
I. Two months after his death, my grandfather’s grave still lacks a headstone. My mother and I stand at its oblong of disturbed earth, too exposed in the withering grass and screaming summer insects....
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“You don’t tell her that being a mother is realizing you’ve been mothering yourself all along.” Jade Hilde writes on postpartum depression and the nuances of heritage at Witness. Lucy Wilde writes on...
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