Read Reviews Moving the Dialogue Forward: Jerald Walker’s Magically Black and Other Essays Valerie StiversDecember 3, 2024 Idiosyncratic and smart, MAGICALLY BLACK moves the dialog forward.Read
Read Interviews A Good Question is a Risk: A Conversation with Emmalea Russo Valerie StiversDecember 2, 2024 Art doesn’t have an obligation to comfort, affirm, make us feel fuzzy. The question is, how do we respond and react?Read
Read The First Book The First Book: Holiday Gift Guide The RumpusNovember 29, 2024 This holiday season, give a gift of a debut authored book!Read
Read Interviews Books as Compasses for a Meaningful Life: Interview with Glory Edim Cleyvis NateraNovember 27, 2024 It’s important to provide perspective—that life is long and complicated, filled with moments of joy, triumph, and everything in between. Read
Read Reviews Life with a Rabbit in the Shadow of Death: A Review of Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow Jules Fitz GeraldNovember 26, 2024 Though the pandemic may now feel relatively distant, its reminder of how quickly catastrophe can become an everyday fact of life persists.Read
Read Interviews “I Think Everything Can Be Funny”: A Conversation with Youngmi Mayer Deborah CopperudNovember 25, 2024 Word economy is, basically, the skill that you have to really hone to become a successful stand-up comedian.Read
Read Comics Reviews Sketch Book Reviews: What An Owl Knows Kateri KramerNovember 21, 2024 When things in the world feel particularly scary of hopeless, I find it very difficult to read books about humans.Read
Read Interviews The First Book The First Book: Del Sandeen Del SandeenNovember 20, 2024 I’m writing to the reader who loves characters as much as plot, and who understands that horror encompasses much more than just things that go bump in the night.Read
Read Poetry Reviews Preparing for Flight: Yaccaira Salvatierra’s Sons of Salt Jamie Lulamae MooreNovember 20, 2024 Salvatierra’s poems embody the spirit of reclamation, reminding us to ask the wind and water to carry us, to remember our potential for flight. Read
Read Interviews The Truth About Phantom Characters: A Conversation with Cal Louise Phoenix Barrett BowlinNovember 20, 2024 ... if my people can survive, I can too. Resiliency and survivalism are in my bones.Read
Read Reviews “ew, don’t use my sound ever again”: On Tyranny and Poupeh Missaghi’s Sound Museum Erin VachonNovember 19, 2024 Power is the end in itself, not a means to justice.Read
Read Interviews It Seemed Important for Me to Figure It Out: An Interview with Ruben Quesada Gabrielle Grace HoganNovember 18, 2024 I wanted to address all the things that I was witness to or that may have informed my understanding of loss.Read