The Self-Fulfilling Death of Humanities
Fearing the depreciating value of the humanities fields drives away talent and financial resources, concludes Benjamin Winterhalter, writing for the Atlantic. Humanities subjects include research areas...
View ArticleThe Literary Underground
Raphael Allison, at Guernica, fuses together his experience at this year’s MLA conference in Chicago with the subculture of the modernists in order to discuss the “crisis in the humanities”:Mods and...
View ArticleWhat Dreams May Come
In a culture where everything is assigned a market value, imagination isn’t in high demand. Over at The Millions, Chloe Benjamin wonders why some of imagination’s most vivid manifestations—dreams and...
View ArticleOurselves and Our World
Sensational headlines declaiming the death of the humanities often misunderstand what the humanities actually are. Paul A. Kottman explains that the practice of analyzing texts doesn’t just teach us...
View ArticleWeekly Geekery
How one troll came to repent for his sins.Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts.There is real symbiosis between science and fiction.There is also symbiosis between medicine and...
View ArticleStop Measuring the Humanities with Dollar Signs
Even though liberal arts degrees are actually good for business, Matt Burriesci (author of Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter, and the Great Books of the Western World) believes that supporters of...
View ArticleThe Sickly Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Dig the grave and let me lieGlad did I live and gladly die Humanities profiles Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson and looks at how his constant struggle with illness influenced his...
View ArticleReshaping Humanities in the Middle East
Though every time I hear it, I can’t help but cringe a little. It reeks of insularity. Have you read what’s coming out of the Arab world right now? I thought when I heard that question again this year....
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The Rumpus Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1998, where she’s written about all kinds of people, from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky to the Badeau family (who become known for...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #153: Julie Schumacher
Several years back, a writer friend asked a literary agent what the marketability might be of her comical epistolary. “Unlikely” was the answer. Comedy is nearly impossible to pull off and novels...
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