Jessa Crispin Can’t Do It Alone in Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Crispin’s writing strikes a tone that at times parallels neoconservative—even alt-right—pundits: commentary peppered with political injunctions, not criticism.
...moreCrispin’s writing strikes a tone that at times parallels neoconservative—even alt-right—pundits: commentary peppered with political injunctions, not criticism.
...moreChew-Bose approaches the word essay less as a noun and more as a verb.
...moreAs we know from her poetry, Lockwood’s humor can shape-shift into something else entirely, something quite moving.
...moreAnd in the silence of the night the small sound of small feet making their way into words.
...moreThe reality of the horror cannot be put into words, cannot be realistically described; it can only enter through imagination.
...moreThe Idiot dramatizes the alienation, and even heartbreak, of losing the narrative thread of your existence.
...moreSometimes it’s necessary to shift one’s moral compass, and sometimes it’s necessary to destroy it.
...morePachico offers is an anthropological view of small, beautifully evoked human experiences—an ethnography of survival, memory, and nostalgia.
...moreWho has time for Writer Problems in the midst of all these PROBLEMS?
...moreIn the first story of this collection, a girl learns the shocking truth that the world is made of atoms, that “when you get right down to it, it’s all just studs and holes.”
...moreThe playful sense of shifting identity applies to feminists, to writers, to anyone who chooses to believe we can reinvent ourselves.
...moreAdam and Eve are the Bible’s most infamous couple: Bonnie and Clyde, year zero.
...moreIn Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.
...moreIn our current political climate with its rampant animosity towards immigrants, Arimah offers a humanizing portrait of both the Nigerian citizen and first generation young female immigrant.
...moreMastai takes the predictable stakes of time travel (erasing the future, changing the past) and heightens them.
...more[Tinti] has cleverly illustrated the tender relationship between a father and his little girl, the respect a daughter has for her dad, and the lengths that both of them will travel to protect one another.
...moreThe Impossible Fairy Tale presents a dark and fraught conception of childhood.
...moreI am fixated by this detail of the bread and beans because it strikes me that Coetzee’s prose might itself be described as “bread and beans” writing: short, declarative sentences, with a fairly simple vocabulary.
...moreEach essay is animated by the conviction Greif articulates in his preface: that many of the reasons for our most common habits are wrong.
...moreIn Enríquez’s Argentina, superstitions and folk tales live side-by-side with stories of actual violence and horror.
...moreLeah Damski reviews The Doorposts of Your House and On Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach.
...moreMichalle Gould reviews An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey today in Rumpus Books.
...moreChelsey Clammer reviews Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin today in Rumpus Books.
...moreGraham Oliver reviews Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga today in Rumpus Books.
...moreIlana Masad reviews The Lost Daughters Collective by Lindsey Drager today in Rumpus Books.
...moreAriel Djanikian reviews Transit by Rachel Cusk today in Rumpus Books.
...moreAllie Rowbottom reviews The Book of Endless Sleepovers by Henry Hoke today in Rumpus Books.
...moreEmily Burns Morgan reviews 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster today in Rumpus Books.
...moreKea Krause reviews Abandon Me by Melissa Febos today in Rumpus Books.
...moreIan MacAllen reviews Culdesac by Robert Repino today in Rumpus Books.
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