Brookline, Massachusetts, 1994
When my son Josh was thirteen he got braces on his teeth. His orthodontist’s office was in the same building as the Preterm clinic where John Salvi shot and killed…
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North of the Border
A group of Mexican teenagers encounters a bizarre America in Luis Alberto Urrea’s latest novel.
Down in the Dumpster
“What Joshua Mohr is doing has more in common with Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Haruki Murakami, all great chroniclers of the fantastic. He’s interested in something weirder than mere sex,…
The Rumpus Review of The Hangover
According to the opening credits, The Hangover is “A Todd Phillips Movie” not “A Todd Phillips Film.”
Where Lawns End: The Rumpus Interview with Amy Stein
I swiped on the lights in my cabin jerked from a half-sleep by a non-human fracas coming from a place right beyond my window.
All that Glitters
What was it like to be Jewish, and accused of patricide, in Holocaust-era Austria?
The Rumpus Interview with Craig Yoe
Was Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster mad at DC Comics–or even his own creations–for betraying him? Was he taking some sort of delight in putting his characters through this alternate world?…
The Rumpus Interview with Dave Hill
It’s kind of hard not to fall a little bit in love with someone who, immediately upon meeting up for a mid-afternoon interview, asks if it’s cool to stop at…
The Lightness of Sidney Wade
Her lightness is not merely pointing out the details of the world but showing us that without the glory of the everyday, the parsnip, for instance, there can be no…
Losing Mum and Pup, A Liberal’s Guilty Pleasure
I wonder, when a humorist writes a book not intended for laughs. When, say, the very funny satirist, Christopher Buckley, writes a memoir – say, Losing Mum and Pup –…
Punch Drunk Love
This is a story about how appearing bald on the cover of a book led to my getting punched repeatedly by middle-aged women in India. No, actually, that’s not exactly…
The Rumpus Interview with Thomas Voorhies
Thomas Voorhies is a Los Angeles-based painter and screenwriter. The intimate discomfort of his portraits is counterbalanced by a lush, sensual style. His canvases compartmentalize his concerns, frame his worries,…