The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford
To read Ethan Rutherford’s The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories is to give oneself over to an improbable series of events which are immensely absorbing. At the same time that…
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Carnival by Rawi Hage
Beirut-born Montreal author Rawi Hage has created a richly mysterious and surreally grotesque dream for his third novel, Carnival. The novel’s protagonist and narrator, nicknamed Fly, is a taxi driver in…
History of the Body by Melanie McCabe
Marisa Siegel reviews Melanie McCabe's History of the Body today in Rumpus Poetry.
Okay, Okay by Diana Hamilton
Jeff Alessandreli reviews Diana Hamilton's Okay, Okay today in Rumpus Poetry.
“All My Friends,” by Marie NDiaye
The five stories that make up All My Friends, a small collection by Frenchwoman (and Prix Goncourt winner) Marie NDiaye, are stories of breakdown. This breakdown is not necessarily the…
Begging For It by Alex Dimitrov
Gina Vaynshteyn reviews Alex Dimitrov's Begging For It today in Rumpus Poetry.
My Funeral Gondola by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Stephanie Papa reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain's My Funeral Gondola today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Ghana Must Go,” by Taiye Selasi
Setting much of the plot in Ghana Must Go—Taiye Selasi’s engaging first novel about two African immigrants and their children—in Boston was an clever choice: A hilly colony established by…
Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger
Tory Adkisson reviews Matthew Hittinger's Skin Shift today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Speedboat” and “Pitch Dark”, by Renata Adler
I have, I admit, no idea what Renata Adler’s Speedboat is about. Really, not the foggiest. But this is a very special sort of mystification, an unqualified – maybe even…
“Is That You, John Wayne?” by Scott Garson
Following in the steps of such modern day masters of this intricate form, including Lydia Davis and Kim Chinquee, Scott Garson has embraced it, bringing his own brand of American disharmony often seen in those forbears. The majority of stories in his second collection Is That You, John Wayne? run from a page long to three and they are the crux of this collection bent on exploring the sadness of life, the missed or missing opportunities, and the stasis our collective cultures seemed to have emotionally entered while we fly and speed about with technology that probably has not made us treat each other any better.