DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #88: The Human Scale - The Rumpus

By SugarOctober 21, 201163 min read

What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer to you?

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Lauren Acampora Recommends 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections

From birth, we’re surrounded by animals. We cling to stuffed animal friends, wear clothing adorned with bunnies and bears, and listen to stories of anthropomorphized creatures. The first books we encounter, too, are often tributes to animals. As a child,

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Literary Hub

“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other

Once a year, I google the name of a man who will always be a stranger to me. In 2008, my former spouse discovered this man lying behind the fast-food restaurant where they both worked, bleeding to death from what

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How to Tell a True Story - The Rumpus

Ten years after, I sit in a psychiatrist’s office on the Upper East Side. This is my second time here. The first time, when I first met Dr. J, he asked me

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A Toast to Finitude - The Rumpus

In The Postmortal, first-time novelist Drew Magary shows us a world where humans no longer age—with the goal, it seems, of making us grateful that we do.

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The Paris Review

The Summer of Lion Meat

In the medieval period it was common for translators to insert commentary on their theories and methods directly into the text.

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The Conversation

Meet the internet movement trying to tackle the manosphere. It’s called BreadTube

Video essayists on YouTube are trying to beat the manosphere at it’s own game. Here are five insightful channels to watch.

Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Associate Professor in Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology SydneyJun 9, 2026