The Girlfriend Experience and Why We Are All in Grave Danger
Steven Soderbergh’s new movie combines porn’s storylessness with the brutality and bad improv of Reality tv, in an assault on complexity and honesty.
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The Rumpus Interview With Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan discusses Family Planning, Indian literature, and the recent attacks in Mumbai.
The Last Book We Loved
We present to you all of the “Last Book I Loved” entries to date, a library of lovers, the anthology of all our little darlings. Indulge.
For the love of God, we are not Generation Y
A little while ago, I got sick of hearing that my generation—which for some God awful reason is called Generation Y—was spoiled, lazy and stupid, all while we were fighting…
This Book Will Self Destruct in 5-4-3…
“Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them, or give them away if we do. Moreover, it is absurd to…
The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs are in a tizzy! One second, it doesn’t look good for literature. The cancer has spread. The postmortem is imminent. But then all of the sudden they…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Greetings! I am Seth, the new Sunday Rumpus Editor. My first act ever in this position will be to recap this week’s book reviews, so that you can start your…
The Camera Never Lies
In Steve Amick’s new novel, desire is most effectively stoked by what you can’t see.
The Bard in the Basement
Today marks the 400th anniversary of the release, by publisher Thomas Thorpe, of Shakespeare’s sonnets. A new book by Clinton Heylin, called So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold…
The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin’s Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist.
A Faithful Grope in the Dark
Are marketing departments running the major publishing houses? Do editors and agents know what they're doing? Are small presses the future of literature? Is everything a crapshoot? What's a first-time novelist to do?
“Inch of ocean, pinch of face”
Like the razor-edged minimalism of Robert Creeley, the rich ontology of these poems, where the content and form eloquently match, communicates carefully into the reader’s memory.