Sketch Book Reviews: Night Vision
I love it when a book forces me to reassess my thinking on a particular subject.
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Very Little of This Book Is Made-up: Talking with R.F. Kuang about her Novel
I don’t think there are easy answers. Should we make judgments about rudeness when we talk about artistic freedom?
A Perfect Sketch of a Moment: Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures
"Memory is not a journalist's tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clear."
Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Nathan Xie
"Sprezzatura," "An Attempt to Explain Myself," & "The Last Norwegian Wolf"
Inheritance, Family, and Beauty: A Conversation with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s debut novel Glassworks (Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023) follows one family through four generations. The story begins in 1910 with the wealthy young philanthropist Agnes Carter, and then follows…
June Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our next Letters in the Mail come from authors Paul Ceballos and James Allen Hall
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Winshen Liu
Grief is the Easter Moon lily that blooms in / an empty room. It is not the canyon / glowing, like the inside of a persimmon torn / open by thumbs, but all of the hours, and / only ever those hours, waiting for that glow.
Our Own Messy, Imperfect Reactions and Feelings: Talking with Hannah Matthews
I'm working on a piece right now for the New York Times where I knew the last sentence before I knew the argument I was making.
Female Trouble: Cookie Mueller’s Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
If you want to evoke the idea of who someone really is, start by showing us what they see.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Slime
The slime problem had hatched when her daughter’s first grade class learned how to make putty they took home in plastic eggs.