Features & Reviews
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
with Jai Hamid Bashir, Joshua Burton, and Nanya Jhingran
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Delicious Anger: A Conversation with Gwen E. Kirby
When I’ve been running regularly and writing regularly, it tends to go well. When I haven’t been running or writing in a while, then I’m bent over heaving for breath and wondering why I ever thought I knew how to…
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Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
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Ancient Voices, Language, Cats: Talking with Kaveh Akbar about Pilgrim Bell
To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat…
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A Redemptive Elsewhere: Rohan Chhetri’s Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful
A review of Rohan Chhetri’s Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful.
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Gentefication and The Politics of Poetry with Antonio De Jesús López
Antonio De Jesús López discusses his new collection, GENTEFICATION.
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A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Daphne Palasi Andreades
Daphne Palasi Andreades discusses her debut novel, BROWN GIRLS.
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Bringing My Regular Bullshit to It: The Rumpus Interview with Dave Housley
Talking with Dave Housley about his novel THE OTHER ONES, available later this month.
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Still, Life: Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
I’ll never see Kitamura’s exhibition in real life, but I’m still grateful to have been invited to the opening.
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A Cosmic Wade Through Uncertainty: Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu
Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu about HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK.
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What to Read When Remembering bell hooks, Eve Babitz, and Joan Didion
Three short book lists of three great writers.
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How to Watch While Being Watched: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis
The experience, rather than linear, is borealian.