Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Tova Gardner reviews Hadara Bar-Nadav's Lullaby (with Exit Sign) today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Kind One,” by Laird Hunt
Released from Coffee House Press in September 2012 and recently honored as one of four PEN/Faulkner Award finalists, Laird Hunt’s Kind One is a crushing and beautiful book. Taking place…
Incarnadine by Mary Szybist
Kent Shaw reviews Mary Szybist's Incarnadine today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Life After Life,” by Kate Atkinson
When we are young every decision seems weighted with extra meaning. A teenager can trace the exact steps that lead from the missing of a ski trip to the life…
“Congressman Lincoln,” by Chris DeRose
On August 3, 1846, the day Abraham Lincoln won election to his only term in Congress, the gangly, 37-year-old country lawyer was unknown outside his Illinois district. America was a…
It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev
David Peak reviews Kirill Medvedev's It's No Good today in Rumpus Poetry.
Uncanny Valley by Jon Woodward
Andrew Field reviews Jon Woodward's Uncanny Valley today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Percival Everett By Virgil Russell,” by Percival Everett
The prolific Percival Everett tackles the timeless psychic tug-of-war between fathers and sons with zigzagging, psychedelic verve in his twentieth novel Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Everett has mastered his…
Song and Error by Averill Curdy
Maya Popa reviews Averill Curdy's Song and Error today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Woke Up Lonely,” by Fiona Maazel
Loneliness seems to be having a moment. Of course, the subject isn’t entirely new. Alexis de Tocqueville identified a brand of loneliness seemingly specific to America back in the mid-nineteenth…
“Cha-Ching!” by Ali Liebegott
“It was 1994, the year of bad, low-blood-sugar decisions,” begins Ali Liebegott in her frank, funny and painfully realistic new novel Cha-Ching! I remember making a lot of bad decisions…