Your Worst May Be My Best, or Vice Worse-A
Like the poems it contains, The Takeaway Bin as a whole is a response to something commonplace; one might even say it’s a book of copings with or responses to…
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Passport to Trespass
Photographer/rambler Mikael Kennedy shares photos from the seventh volume of his over-a-decade-long project, Passport to Trespass:
NY Times “Responds” to Backlash
What Rhoades Ha and the New York Times fail to understand is that the backlash is not about readers misinterpreting these quotes as belonging to the reporter, James C. McKinley Jr. It is about everything else.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #67: The Black Arc of It
But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.
The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities. These are, I suppose, matters of scale.
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #35: The Monster and Carmelo Anthony
Thanks to the most anticipated trade of this year’s NBA season, Carmelo Anthony (“Melo” for short) has left behind the soothing powder blue uniform of the Denver Nuggets and switched…
Annotating Tennyson
Actually, everything’s like that, isn’t it? You know: layered, couched in events, touched—soiled, perhaps, or perhaps sanctified—by hands, eyes. Sometimes briefly glimpsed. Sometimes lightly pondered. Occasionally, noted.
My Single Star Is Gone
Michael Klein reviews Invisible Strings by Jim Moore today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht, the youngest of the New Yorker's “20 Under 40”, talks with the Rumpus about her grandfather, her debut novel, and her students.
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: Another Year and the Films of Mike Leigh
Here is the world according to Johnny, the bilious antihero of Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked. Johnny is a restless drifter on an odyssey through London’s nocturnal underbelly, his feverish ranting a…