Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón
Such multistoried, woven-together heritage justifies and perhaps even demands the necessity of different ways to tell an origin story.
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Against Aesthetic Beauty: Lauren Elkin’s Art Monsters
. . . Elkin revisits works and experiences new ones, generating dialogues between them and their artists.
“I Was Watching and You Were Clear”: A Conversation with Carolyn Hays
I think every parent trying to protect their child wants to be the bulletproof vest. At the same time, we also know that we shouldn’t necessarily protect them wholly.
Yokai and Kishōtenketsu: A Conversation with Jami Nakamura Lin
I feel like when you write a book like this, people just expect you to know so many things. What I wanted to get into the book was this idea of searching.
In the Details: Don DeLillo’s Library of America volumes
In 1979, at the age of forty-two, the distinctly American writer Don DeLillo made a change that would have a profound impact on his work: he left the United States.…
Radical Empathy and the Power of Fiction: A Conversation with Shastri Akella
One of the two great powers of writing fiction is the capacity to invent, to activate the imagination and access realities unlike our own
About The Rumpus’s Adoptee-Themed Month
Reclaiming National Adoption Awareness Month as National Adoptee Awareness Month by publishing essays about the adoptee experience, written by adoptees.
Gender Interrogations in Contemporary Queer Poetics: Six New Poetry Collections
How is poetic form being adapted, altered, and reimagined in contemporary lesbian and queer poetry? Five new poetry collections by lesbian, queer, and trans poets attend keenly to gender and systems surrounding it.
“I’m Not Grateful to Have Been Adopted, But I Am Thankful To Have Grown Up In A Wonderful Home”: A Conversation With Angela Tucker
By contextualizing my experience, I hoped to offer new dimensions to the conversation around adoption.
In the Wilds of Magic: Clarice Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark
Despite the challenges presented by this novel’s wandering nature, Lispector’s stylistic feats enchants through to the end, and offers a compelling perspective on the wild magic of her voice.
Writing Outside the Box: A Conversation with Taymour Soomro
Do I want to be writing the way that I think literary fiction ought to be written? That’s starting to not seem so interesting to me anymore.
The Gift and Burden of Ancestral Stories: A Conversation with Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Some of my favorite moments and scenes are when characters do something surprising that bends toward humor or something selfless that reaches for connection.