Behind the Caves
Maybe all those rebuffs—the few I gave, the many I received—were just ways of protecting ourselves, those nascent beings so unsure of who we were or what we wanted to become.
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The Rumpus Interview with Will Chancellor
Debut novelist Will Chancellor talks about successful satire, destroying drafts of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall to get to the finished version, and the advantages of fiction over competing media.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #250
THE END ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the end.
Bowie by Simon Critchley
Bowie was the being who permitted a powerful emotional connection and freed them to become some other kind of self, something freer, more queer, more honest, more open, and more exciting.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Are Not Dead
"The wants and desires of dead people, the one’s they didn’t get to fulfill—that’s what slays me...What if they wanted more? What if they didn’t want to leave behind the things they left behind?"
Ted Wilson Turns Five!
Congratulations and happy anniversary to Ted Wilson, who has been bringing us his reviews of the world for five years today! Here’s a personal message from Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott.
The Last Book I Loved: The Silent Woman
I had recently broken all of my wine glasses. I did not break them all at the same time. Some I broke while cleaning, and I was upset that I had managed to destroy something while trying to make it clean, make it better.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
We make a case against David Mitchell's new novel, update the Indian American immigrant story, and interview a queer renaissance woman—all in Rumpus Books.
Men With Women; Women With Men: Fight Club, 15 Years Later
Fight Club was never a fairytale. It’s a painful howl into a night that probably isn’t listening and that is more a cry of pain than a drive to hurt.
The Rumpus Interview with Owen Pallett
Canadian musician Owen Pallett talks Tori Amos, perfectionism, percussion, and dark head spaces with Erin Lyndal Martin.
The Rumpus Interview with Ariel Schrag
Screenwriter and comic book artist Ariel Schrag discusses writing for different media, identity politics, and sympathizing with a straight male teen pretending to be trans in her new novel Adam.