The Rumpus
  • My Account
  • Essays
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Comics
  • Features
    • Interviews
    • The First Book
    • Reviews
    • Themed Months
    • What to Read When
  • Columns
    • Beyond the Page
    • Close Reads
    • Collaborative Criticism
    • ENOUGH
    • Funny Women
    • Parallel Practice
    • Voices on Addiction
    • We Are More
    • Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me
    • Dear Sugar
    • Roxane Gay
    • All Columns
  • Store
  • Prize
  • Rumpus Membership
  • Merch
  • Letters in the Mail
  • Bonfire Merch
  • My Account
Become a MemberDonate
Become a Member Donate
The Rumpus
The Rumpus The Rumpus
  • My Account
  • Essays
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Comics
  • Features
    • Interviews
    • The First Book
    • Reviews
    • Themed Months
    • What to Read When
  • Columns
    • Beyond the Page
    • Close Reads
    • Collaborative Criticism
    • ENOUGH
    • Funny Women
    • Parallel Practice
    • Voices on Addiction
    • We Are More
    • Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me
    • Dear Sugar
    • Roxane Gay
    • All Columns
  • Store
  • Prize
0

Posts by author

Arielle Bernstein

21 posts
Arielle Bernstein's writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and AV Club. She teaches writing at American University and is working on both a novel and memoir.
Read
  • Features & Reviews
  • Rumpus Original

The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jacob Wren

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • March 7, 2015
Jacob Wren discusses his newest novel, Polyamorous Love Song, the relationship between art and ethics, and whether Kanye West is a force for good in the art and music world.
Read
Read
  • Features & Reviews
  • Rumpus Original
  • Sex

The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Noah Berlatsky

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • January 3, 2015
Noah Berlatsky on his new book, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Martson/Peter Comics, blogging, and reconciling feminism and bondage.
Read
Read
  • Film
  • Rumpus Original

Men With Women; Women With Men: Fight Club, 15 Years Later

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • September 12, 2014
Fight Club was never a fairytale. It’s a painful howl into a night that probably isn’t listening and that is more a cry of pain than a drive to hurt.
Read
Read
  • Film
  • Rumpus Original

The Rumpus Review of Obvious Child

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • July 25, 2014
Obvious Child is sweetness, swaddled in a dirty joke. It’s the delicate pastel world of Wes Anderson, where characters are imperfect but want to get better. Where every asshole, in the end, has a really big heart.
Read
Read
  • Film
  • Rumpus Original

The Rumpus Review of Only Lovers Left Alive

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • June 6, 2014
Vampires have always been the sexiest of demon creatures, precisely because the bonds that connect them trigger every fear we have of connecting with another person...
Read
Read
  • Rumpus Original

The Rumpus Review of Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • April 11, 2014
We view women’s sexual journeys different from men’s sexual journeys, particularly because we still have a hard time seeing women as sexual agents. In Nymphomaniac we see a woman who is in clear pursuit of sexual pleasure.
Read
Read
  • Rumpus Original

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Weightless Nomad

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • February 23, 2014
"We live in a moment where images fill our lives in more obvious ways than words. Every day we scroll through Tumblrs, memes and gifs, a parade of images as completely absorbing as it is mind numbing."
Read
Read
  • Rumpus Original

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Moon Over Egypt

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • September 15, 2013
In America we are explicitly taught that a healthy kind of love is a removed love...Love is the area outside of suffering, not within it...For me the experience of love has always been more primal than this...love is fire. It’s not a sigh; it’s a wail, one part caress and one part claw.
Read
Read
  • Film
  • Rumpus Original

Emotional Creatures: Excess, Restraint and Deliverance in Antichrist

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • May 31, 2010
Lars von Trier's films are effective primarily because he is not afraid of creating complex female characters.
Read

Posts pagination

Previous 1 2
Become a Member!

BECOME A MONTHLY OR ANNUAL RUMPUS MEMBER AND RECEIVE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT, EDITORIAL INSIGHTS, MERCH DISCOUNTS, AND MORE! OUR GOAL IS TO REACH AT LEAST 600 MEMBERS BY THE END OF 2025 TO COVER OUR BASIC OPERATING COSTS.

Join today!
COMMUNITY SUPPORT KEEPS THE MAGAZINE GOING!

Founded in 2009, The Rumpus is one of the longest-running online literary magazines around. We’ve been independent from the start, which means we’re not connected with any academic institution, wealthy benefactor, or part of a larger publishing company. The vast majority of the magazine’s funding comes from reader support.

In other words, we can’t survive without YOU!

Make a Tax-Deductible Donation
Letters in the mail (from authors)

Receive letters from some of our favorite authors written just for Rumpus readers and sent straight into your (snail) mailbox 2x a month!

sign up now!

Keep in Touch

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper.

We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Get your Rumpus merch in our online store. Subscribe to receive Letters in the Mail from authors or join us by becoming a monthly or yearly Member.

We support independent bookstores! 10% of sales on any titles purchased through our Bookshop.org page or affiliate links benefits the magazine.

The Rumpus in your Inbox!
The Rumpus
  • Team
  • About & Writers’ Guidelines
  • Advertise
  • TOS and Privacy Policy
© 2025, The Rumpus.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.