Features & Reviews
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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.
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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.
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They Are The Bones: A Conversation with Kelly Link
Going around the world because you can’t go through it
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The Work We Can Do Only As We Age: A Conversation with Priscilla Long
I approach research dutifully and compulsively.
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The No-Man’s Land Between Art and Self: Seth Rogoff’s The Kirschbaum Lectures
We look for ourselves in literature—for comfort or for guidance—but the page rarely provides a clean mirror.
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Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy
Some books defy categories. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by poet Camille T. Dungy pushes the limits of what readers might expect from any genre. Is it memoir or environmental literature?The book covers…
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the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson
part of my fixation with textured and torqued language . . . stems from growing up in the South, where figurative language isn’t limited to formal literary spaces.
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Not every queer story needs to be a coming out story: An Interview with Miah Jeffra
Don’t we often write about what we struggle to understand?
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Sketch Book Reviews: Poetry Unbound
I think when things in the world seem particularly bad/sad/awful, poetry can add a little light
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The Poem is Second, Living is First: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez
Above everything else, people come first.
