This Is a Refugee Camp
Zoe and I got an email the other day from Stephen Dau, a writer and expat who’s been living in Belgium the last ten years or so. He wanted to draw our attention to his current project, a series of...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Greater Than Themselves
A month ago, a refugee camp sprung up in the middle of Brussels, as the number of asylum seekers who reached the country as a part of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe exceeded the capacity of the...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #72: Urban Pastoral
Way Out Weather, Steve Gunn’s release from late 2014, has been one of my most consistently favorite albums of the last couple of years. (And maybe it’s exactly a writer’s album, because it was...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
An unmanned bookstore, accessible by ID card, has opened in Hangzhou, China. A sprawling Brussels, Belgium bookstore sports nine themed bookshops within it. A Connecticut couple’s hobby of acquiring...
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After laying off most of its workers because of COVID-19 related slowdowns, Portland’s Powell’s Books has rehired one hundred staff thanks to brisk online sales. Unemployed booksellers in New York City...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
The small two-bedroom flat where I lived until I was five is on the northern slope of Mount Lykavittos, between the neighborhoods of Ambelokipi and Neapoli. Back in Athens for the first time since my...
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