Dear Empire;
Dear Empire, we are an obedient people. We are intimate beyond death, and anxious for your return.
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Spotlight: A Faustian Tale
Writer and cartoonist Brandon Hicks tells us a Faustian tale of a struggling musician.
Crack My Heart Wide Open
Surviving suicide is like balancing on the edge of a blade. Either way the knife flashes, you’re going to get cut.
The Rumpus Interview with Sean Michaels
The Rumpus talks to Sean Michaels about his new book, Us Conductors, challenging a reader’s empathy, and a true, strange musical instrument: the theremin.
The Throwaways
Nazir lies buried in the mind’s forbidden faraways, on the margin of the village graveyard, obscured by nettle.
The Rumpus Interview with Christian Wiman
Poet and essayist Christian Wiman discusses landscape, elegy, and the strain between doubt and belief.
The Rumpus Interview with Volodya
Freedom Porn administrator and amateur performer Volodya discusses running an anarcho-porn website and masturbation as political expression.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #253
MOVIE THEATER POPCORN ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing movie theater popcorn.
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
McBride has said that she wants this book to be read fast, letting it wash over you, but the struggle to make sense and to fill in the unsaid is hard to resist.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Friday Night Lies
"This is a night of more than just football. It’s a night of fresh haircuts and blushed cheeks. It’s four-wheel drive trucks, it’s spent Zima caps and condoms, it’s Levis and short skirts and lights so bright you have to shield your eyes."
Why You Should Care About Hong Kong
They may be only seven million, a small dot on the globe, but what is happening right now in Hong Kong might have deeper implications than you think.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
A short story collection 15 years in the making, a "slacker intellectual" aboard an aircraft carrier, and poems about everyday political frictions—it's all in our books coverage this week.