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My mother says that I was born with my eyes open, and that I was looking at her.

"I do think when I write it’s kind of therapy or having to tell someone everything or maybe writing it gets it out of my head?"

Melissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.

The Radicals is the coming-of-age novel at its darkest: all the lessons are learned too late, if at all.

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.

Madhu H. Kaza discusses the anthology, Kitchen Table Translation, ways to engage with history, and seeing translation as a continual crossover.

We here at The Rumpus matriarchy are celebrating all of our feminist “mothers” this Mother's Day!

[R]eading these poems feels like looking down into deep water, being able to see only so far and no farther.

Terese Marie Mailhot discusses her debut memoir, Heart Berries, crafting trauma on the page, and her views on motherhood after writing her memoir.

"I wanted to make these characters much more complex than the individual boxes we normally see."

The Ensemble offers its readers the chance to breathe the rarefied air of an elite pursuit.

Rumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.