This Week in Essays
Happy International Women’s Day! Why not read some essays if you have extra time today, starting with Dayna Tortorici laying out the reasons for striking today at n + 1. Timothy Denevi…
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Why Is It Always up to the Women?
That's the real tangle of women's labor; it's too deeply ingrained to the way our lives work for us to properly strike from it.
the consequences of my body by Maged Zaher
“I am grateful/ For the poetics of walking the streets.” And we are grateful to be walking with Zaher through the country of this book.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welp, I guess it’s time to start changing Mars’s atmosphere. Actually you CAN get pregnant while you’re pregnant thank you very much. Twenty Six Abandoned Gasoline Stations (are nice to…
The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Than Nguyen discusses his story collection The Refugees, growing up in a Vietnamese community in San Jose in the 1980s, and the power of secondhand memories.
Album of the Week: Nadia Reid’s Preservation
“I remember recording the tracks, it was about 11 at night, and I felt almost transcendental, as if I was out of my body, singing these words to myself. That’s…
A Proof for Truth
Truth is perspective—a plane or a sphere—which makes it feel slippery. Truth is not absolute in the ways that we want it to be.
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Loganberry Books in Cleveland, Ohio is drawing attention to female authors by turning books by men around on the shelves, leaving the books pages out to hide the spine. A Pittsburgh bookstore…
An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey
Michalle Gould reviews An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey today in Rumpus Books.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything is awful so why not just watch millions of tennis balls get made? Important news: I LOVE DIORAMAS. More important news: Las Pozas is also VERY GOOD. Here’s that…
Swinging Modern Sounds #78: Conceived as a Playlist
Shadowbahn [...] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
This Week in Books: Field Theories
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…