The Eyes of Our Skin Are Closed
The enchantment of Dangerous Laughter is not merely a function of the tales themselves, but also of the way in which Millhauser tells them – with careful, attentive prose that…
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Mortals—Norman Rush’s Novel For Grown-ups
If I have learned anything from years of recommending this book, it’s this: enthusiasm, by itself, accomplishes nothing.
The Rumpus Interview With God-des & She
“We really are grateful to be able to do this for our job, and we’re grateful we’ve been able to travel and meet all these weirdos.”
What I Learned at AWP
The Rumpus dispatched dozens of our top reporters to Chicago. None of them were heard from again.
The Rumpus Interview with Jacob Weisman
“You can’t just stick a rocketship on the cover of a book and expect it to sell. That’ll work for the Hard SF readership, but that’s not going to sell…
The Rumpus Long Interview with Andrew W.K.
“I used to think that you had to be in a lot more pain and going through a lot more struggle to really prove that you were working hard, but…
The Rumpus Interview with Yiyun Li
“The style in the second collection is more developed, more established. I feel like I’m more mature as a storyteller now and I also know what kind of stories I…
Appropriation of Fear—A Review of Friday the 13th
The Friday the 13th teenagers, including those in the franchise reboot that opens this week, are a superior breed of dumb. The kind of dumb that makes someone who knows…
The Rumpus Interview with Don Waters
“That gorgeous cholla cactus outside the window also has horribly sharp spines. The desert is an incredibly violent environment. Plants and animals had to get mean as hell in order…
The Shorty Q & A with T Cooper
T Cooper is has been labeled a transgender writer, but to boil it down to a phrase so simple and limiting is an insult. After two critically acclaimed novels, Some…
The Last Bastion of Jim Crow
The Order of Myths is a film too nuanced to confront lynching directly, and too focused to make any easy statement about racism.