Reviews
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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Beukes, who gained recognition for the literary science-fiction noir Zoo City, is a South African writer fostering the gradual recognition that science fiction and literary fiction can be at least neighbors if not actual housemates. The Shining Girls offers the…
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Bombshell by James Reich
James Reich’s new novel stands out because, for all the loudness of its characters and subject matter, it manages to feel subtle and seamless in its execution. It’s a novel that doesn’t sacrifice politics for plot, or vice versa, and…
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Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes by Bruce Covey
Andrew Field reviews Bruce Covey’s Reveal: All Shapes and Sizes today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Instructions For Preparing Your Skin by Ariana Nadia Nash
Diego Báez reviews Ariana Nadia Nash’s Instructions for Preparing Your Skin today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Elders by Ryan McIlvain
When I first started Elders, Ryan McIlvain’s debut novel, I thought it would be a book I could relate to on terms of searching for faith. Elders focuses on two Mormon missionaries during their two-year stint in Brazil: an American…
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The Rose of January by Geoffrey Nutter
Kent Shaw reviews Geoffrey Nutter’s The Rose of January today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey by Daniel Mueller
Mueller’s America is a country we know well, a place tirelessly working to cultivate normalcy through repetition and stoic homogeneity. It’s also a country that’s particularly ill equipped and unwilling to talk openly about its own failings and histories of…
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Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing
Search Sweet Country opens with the town fool Beni Baidoo sitting in the bush near the beach listening to the “language of the sea” that “spoke in shells that he could understand.” A seemingly minor character who appears only sporadically in lengthy chapters…
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i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together by Mira Gonzalez
Emily Bludworth de Barrios reviews mira gonzales’s i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together today in Rumpus Poetry.
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the body | of space | in the shape of the human by Andrew Allport
David Peak reviews Andrew Allport’s the body | of space | in the shape of the human today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
Though left, by the author, to our own devices, I suspect that any reader venturing into Cory Taylor’s novel of intergenerational love will find his or her direction quite early on, when its sixteen year-old protagonist, Martha, abruptly describes licking…
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The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.