“The Home Jar,” by Nancy Zafris
Anybody can forget anybody. So claims the vanished husband of Jarmilla Price, protagonist of “Digging the Hole,” the final story in Nancy Zafris’s challenging and powerful new collection The Home…
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The Right Place to Jump by Peter Covino
Marisa Siegel reviews Peter Covino's The Right Place to Jump today in Rumpus Poetry.
This is Not About Birds by Nick Ripatrazone
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Nick Ripatrazone's This is Not About Birds today in Rumpus Poetry.
“The Best American Essays 2012,” edited by David Brooks
Gore Vidal passed away in July of last year, and Jacques Barzun’s death followed a few months later. If there is a heaven, and if worldviews and cultural paradigms are…
“This Close,” by Jessica Francis Kane
An unfinished sentence tells you a marriage is over. An unanswered question reveals the emotional void at the heart of a family. Jessica Francis Kane’s short story collection This Close is…
Looking for The Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco
Julie Marie Wade reviews Richard Blanco's Looking For the Gulf Motel today in Rumpus Poetry.
It Becomes You by Dobby Gibson
Jeff Alessandrelli reviews Dobby Gibson's It Becomes You today in Rumpus Poetry.
“La Boutique Obscure,” by Georges Perec
After the celebrated French writer Georges Perec began psychoanalysis in the late 1960s, he made a habit of jotting down his dreams. He perfected the ability to awake mid-dream, make…
The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz
Julie Brooks Barbour reviews Cynthia Cruz's The Glimmering Room today in Rumpus Poetry.
“Wise Men,” by Stuart Nadler
In a certain kind of story, characters reflect and explore the financial world outside their narrative. A population left destitute by the American Civil War, for example, found hope in…
Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal
Trista Edwards reviews Paisley Rekdal's Animal Eye today in Rumpus Poetry.
Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman
Brachah Goykadosh reviews Matthew Dickman's Mayakovsky's Revolver today in Rumpus Poetry.