Reviews
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The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
The first 100 pages of Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings are just that: interesting, but short of compelling. In the late sixties, six teenagers meet at an arts camp named Spirit-In-The-Woods and coin themselves The Interestings, because in the insular world…
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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 these stories are unbelievable, several are based on truth. In…
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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 an unnamed city in the midst of a carnival celebration. Carnival…
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History of the Body by Melanie McCabe
Marisa Siegel reviews Melanie McCabe’s History of the Body today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Okay, Okay by Diana Hamilton
Jeff Alessandreli reviews Diana Hamilton’s Okay, Okay today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“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 kind of single-character unraveling we expect from good psychological fiction,…
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Begging For It by Alex Dimitrov
Gina Vaynshteyn reviews Alex Dimitrov’s Begging For It today in Rumpus Poetry.
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My Funeral Gondola by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Stephanie Papa reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s My Funeral Gondola today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“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 English immigrants fleeing religious restrictions, now teeming with people from…
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Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger
Tory Adkisson reviews Matthew Hittinger’s Skin Shift today in Rumpus Poetry.
