ONE show I saw this year that I can’t get out of my head: St. Vincent at the Met in the Temple of Dendur. TWO of the biggest artistic disappointments I encountered this year, or as I like to call…

By Ashleigh Lambert Like many angsty teens, I read a little Vonnegut — The Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle. But it wasn’t until after his death in 2007 that I really came to appreciate him, when The A.V. Club ran the feature…

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The Rumpus has published a refreshing essay by Steve Almond. It is about the situation at the Virginia Quarterly Review, and about the perils of the literary world, but mostly it’s a reminder that all that humanist stuff about…