On Pointe, and in Limbo
Martha Schabas’ Various Positions is an excellent novel about performance anxiety and sexual development disguised as a young adult novel.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comic, writer, feminist, advice-giver, and all around awesome person Sara Benincasa discusses her new memoir, Agorafabulous! Dispatches From My Bedroom.
Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them
Do you know what you’re saying? Do you really?
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #123
CUPID ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cupid.
The Glory of the Sunken
Set in a profane and beautiful world of uncertain values—a world that resembles ours but is in fact post-World War I Bucovina—Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol is a…
THE LONELY VOICE #16: Between the Public and the Sky (Part One of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)
Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then feels the need for some kind of contact…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Joan Didion
The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others—who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett…
They Sing Wild Songs In New Keys
Marge Piercy’s unflinching clarity of vision continues to be the kind of sturdy example so vital to literature. She has long been teaching and in the public arena, on the…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #96: The Dark Cocoon
Transformation isn’t a butterfly. It’s the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away.
Readers Report: New Beginnings
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “New Beginnings.”
Perceptive and Prophetic
Hesperus Press collected four long-neglected critical essays for their new collection, Virginia Woolf’s On Fiction. Her criticism, like her fiction, is an utter delight.
Total War: A Film Reminiscence
In those days, the only way to see David Lynch’s early, short films was to start or join a film club, pool resources, and rent them from some place like…