Rumpus Originals
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #50
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing unconditional love.
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Am I a Redundant Human Being?
A lost literary voice from early 1900s Austria slyly addresses female self-loathing and finds answers with unsettling modern relevance.
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The Rumpus Interview With David Mitchell
The brainy British novelist David Mitchell is a member of that elite club of living writers—Pynchon, Coetzee—who have spawned an obscene amount of critical adoration.
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An Invisible Giraffe. A Pyramid of Glass. A Development At Once Revealing and Occluding: Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi on why she chose Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation to be the group’s September selection.
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Mortal Geography
Alexandra Teague’s charted worlds range from the exotic to the quotidian, from Tikal to a San Francisco classroom.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #25: 100% Nepotism
It’s the Internet, where I am plying my trade here, and it’s meant to be the Wild West—unregulated, unruly, unpredictable.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #48: Write Like a Motherfucker
I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart.
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Welcome to the Occupation
A short novel by Michael Knight sees the post-WWII occupation of Japan through the eyes of a confused typist in General MacArthur’s office.
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A Mystical Authority Over the Unknown
On a recent visit to Syria, my friend and I eschewed our guidebook as much as possible. In place of this we sought local inspiration, or merely direction, with the welcome corollary of impromptu conversation.
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10/40/70 #20: The Battle of Algiers
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
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Nothing Can Outlast Its Loss
[Nick Laird’s] steps are sure, his undermusic and undercurrents consistently strong. On Purpose is a slim volume that contains multitudes.