Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Rumpus Original Confession of Grief: Katie Marya’s Sugar Work Laura LeMoonJune 21, 2023 Marya’s work is a slow burn; both sweet and salty, that picks up speed and ferocity as it unfolds.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Imagining a Worst-Case Scenario: John Vaillant’s Fire Weather Katrya BolgerJune 20, 2023 The boreal forests around the town do habitually burn, and its residents were used to seeing flames over their skies in summer months.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Animal as Metaphor: Erica Berry’s Wolfish Melissa RodmanJune 6, 2023 Living entities, with whom we cannot communicate fully, seduce us in their majesty.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Recollections of a Non-Existence: Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X Vartika RastogiMay 30, 2023 “There was no con. There was no crime. There was only fiction.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Memory Among Landscape: Alissa Hattman’s Sift Hannah PassMay 23, 2023 . . . in a barren world with little protection and corners to hide, it’s also impossible to hide from our thoughts . . . Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original A Perfect Sketch of a Moment: Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures Guillermo ManningMay 16, 2023 "Memory is not a journalist's tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clear."Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Female Trouble: Cookie Mueller’s Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black Elsa CourtMay 9, 2023 If you want to evoke the idea of who someone really is, start by showing us what they see.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original The No-Man’s Land Between Art and Self: Seth Rogoff’s The Kirschbaum Lectures Duncan WhitmireMay 2, 2023 We look for ourselves in literature—for comfort or for guidance—but the page rarely provides a clean mirror.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original A Journey Into Deep Terrain: Katherine May’s Enchantment Erin WinsemanApril 25, 2023 On finding a source for enchantmentRead
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original The Sound of Home: Sonorous Desert by Kim Haines-Eitzen Leanne OgasawaraApril 18, 2023 . . . if we open our ears . . . we might even find ourselves feeling truly home Read