The Latest
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Overnight Success
We grow extremely fertile. We are super wombs. We conjure orgasm on command. We menstruate painlessly and our blood is glitter and heals cuts and scabs.
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Rescheduled: The September Rumpus Book Club Selection: “The Odyssey” with Emily Wilson
Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The New York Times named Wilson’s translation as one of its 100 notable books…
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Like My Father
……….My father smiles when he’s coated in oil. Cars remind him there’s always something to be fixed. He chooses not to replace what he can resurrect.
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The Mexican Trojan Horse
The drug war has been told as an epic in which modern heroes—DEA agents, brave Mexican soldiers, even if only a few—have fought the barbarians, the Mexican narcos.
