Voices on Addiction: Flight Patterns
There was no map, no compass. Just me, the needle, and heroin.
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Rumpus Original
Writing in Earnest: Talking with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses FRIDAY BLACK.
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What to Read When Our Country Is Ruled by Sexual Predators
A list of books by feminist writers who examine and dismantle rape culture.
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Part Skeptic, Part Believer: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons discusses her forthcoming novel, WEATHER WOMAN.
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The Queer Syllabus: Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Self-Determination
When I was growing up, I was surrounded by art and music.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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Writing Back to History: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon discusses his new memoir, HEAVY.
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ENOUGH: You Are Not Forgiven
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Naked in Japan
Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
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The Thread: Dress Codes
How much of gender and identity is about dressing up as the part?
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Whitman Notebook: Summer Grass
Whatever is undiscovered in “Song of Myself” is in the soil.
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Figuring It Out: A Conversation with Rosellen Brown
Rosellen Brown discusses her new novel, THE LAKE ON FIRE.
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We Stand with Moira Donegan
I, and The Rumpus, stand firmly with Moira Donegan.
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Little What to Read When
A new monthly illustrated What to Read When for the young readers in our lives!
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All Tied Up and Slipping Away: Talking with Micah Perks
Micah Perks discusses TRUE LOVE AND OTHER MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
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The Queer Syllabus: House Rules by Heather Lewis
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Joy Priest
Whole ecosystems, / the country’s fauna, built through / our long blood.
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All You Need: The Summer of Love and the Manson Family Murders
Need is blind and will not see.
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Above All, Time: A Conversation with Beth Bachmann
Poet Beth Bachmann discusses her new collection, CEASE.
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ENOUGH: The Host Body
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Blind Hunger, Black Bodies, and Radiohead’s In Rainbows
I’ve seen it coming. This is where it passes through.
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Change Ourselves, Change the World: Talking with Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson discusses THE RECKONINGS.
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What to Read When You’ve Lost Your Spiritual Flashlight
A go-to list for refreshing, down-to-earth, spot-on spiritual reading.
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Smart Girls, Weird Magic: Talking with Kendra Fortmeyer
Kendra Fortmeyer discusses her first novel, HOLE IN THE MIDDLE.
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The Queer Syllabus: Rufus: The Bat Who Loved Colors by Tomi Ungerer
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Kristi Coulter
This world doesn’t have to like me. But it does have to reckon with me, with my humanity.
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Circling Backwards, Snaking Sideways: Talking with Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo discusses her debut novel, PONTI.
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ENOUGH: The Forgotten Women
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #89: In Praise of Tom Petty
Because Petty was so prolific and so popular, the intense craftsmanship of his body of work has been hiding in plain sight.
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