Reviews
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“A Questionable Shape,” by Bennett Sims
“What we know about the undead so far is this: they return to the familiar.” Thus begins Bennett Sims’ debut novel A Questionable Shape. The subject matter of this brilliantly sensitive, whip-smart new novel is at first glance almost overbearingly…
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Easy Math by Lauren Shapiro
Weston Cutter reviews Lauren Shapiro’s Easy Math today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Collected Poems by Joseph Ceravolo
Barbara Berman reviews Joseph Ceravolo’s Collected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Possibility: Essays Against Despair,” by Patricia Vigderman
I like Patricia Vigderman because she likes jickjacking. She describes in “A Writer’s Harvest”, an earlier piece in Possibility: Essays Against Despair, how the sight of that slangy word, in two distinct (but linked) stories—one by Mary Karr, the other…
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Kings of the F**king Sea by Dan Boehl
Jason Storms reviews Dan Boehl’s Kings of the F**king Sea today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“An Elegy for Mathematics,” by Anne Valente
An Elegy for Mathematics, Anne Valente’s first full-length release, is a wonderful little book. Checking in at fewer than fifty pages, it’s a quick but deeply layered and poignant collection of material, most of which was previously published online. (She…
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“A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” by Anthony Marra
Some novels defy gravity, spanning years and crossing ruined landscapes and entire solar systems of characters while still maintaining an ethereal, almost impossible lightness. Anthony Marra’s debut novel is one of them, and it does indeed call to mind an…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Kino by Jürgen Fauth
On the year anniversary of its publication, Anna March contemplates the impact Jürgen Fauth’s Kino made on her.
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The Collected Poems by Marcel Proust
Joe Winkler reviews the Collected Poems of Marcel Proust today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Seasons Smooth and Unperplext by Henry Williams
Autumn Elizabeth reviews Henry Williams’s seasons smooth and unperplext today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“In the Garden of Stone,” by Susan Tekulve
A multi-generation novel is a risky thing. What gives it that unity that distinguishes a novel from a book of linked short stories? How does an author handle the passage of time or the death of her protagonist as one…
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The Switching Yard by Jan Beatty
Julie Marie Wade reviews Jan Beatty’s The Switching Yard today in Rumpus Poetry.