They’re No Soldiers: Ryan McIlvain’s The Radicals
The Radicals is the coming-of-age novel at its darkest: all the lessons are learned too late, if at all.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Bethany C. Morrow
Bethany C. Morrow discusses her debut novel, MEM, how it felt to read Toni Morrison for the first time, and her hope for Black girl readers.
ENOUGH: On Junot Díaz, from a Survivor
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Effacement of the Mother
When I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
Why I Chose Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Here's what we're reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
Notable Philadelphia: 5/15–5/21
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything is still very very bad, what do we do? Eureka is full of icey surprises. Does our shifting orbit effect evolution? Probably! Silicon Valley is making the world very…
The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters
Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
Hey Ladies in Waiting
I know lots of people/the international press is making a huge deal out of everything, but it's still just me, your girl Meghan, and my fiancé, His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales.