Better Late Than Never: The Rumpus Review of Happy-Go-Lucky
When you first meet Pauline “Poppy” Cross in Mike Leigh’s film Happy-Go-Lucky, you wish she would leave.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Meno
Two authors, one dinner table. Joshua Mohr talks to Joe Meno about The Great Perhaps, fundamentalism, and why George W. Bush’s sentences are so short.
The Tao of Keith
A collection of wisdom, witticisms, hypothetical scenarios, and recipes (really!) lays out the principles of “Keithism”
The Rumpus Readers Interview Dee Snider
We passed the opportunity on to our readers—and we ended up with an interview that was much more interesting than we had expected.
The Hooping Book: An Interview
The Rumpus interviews co-author Ariane Conrad about her controversial new sex manual…er, “revolutionary fitness program.”
Jeff Buckley and His Band, An Oral History
Jeff Buckley: Having Tim Buckley as my father gave me the parts needed to play music. Even if I went and became a lawyer and someone asked me to sing…
A Badass Biker Poet: Thom Gunn
Gunn’s work is imminently teachable in the form of Selected Poems, but it is derived from a world that now no longer exists: the Metaphysical poets drawn through the intermingling…
Iran’s Regime: Marching Toward a Cliff
A special comment by Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes The Khomeinist regime in Iran is in terminal trouble; but that doesn’t…
90 Miles from Home
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés’s stories about refugees from the Mariel Boatlift present the conflicts and loneliness of exile.
Zak Smith in Conversation with Gordon Terry
“…Beauty is often considered suspect based on the lingering premise that it is radically conservative and reactionary, and that the strategies of visual appeal used by the mass media can…