The final dispatch from Benjamin Morris, who covered New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011 for The Rumpus: The problem of Mardi Gras—of the day itself, Fat Tuesday—is that you only have…
We have now featured four “Rumpus Readers Report” pieces (“Family/Holidays,” “Neighborhood,” “Impossible Love,” and “Wants/Needs”), but let’s be honest, four is not nearly enough. We’re hungry for more of your…
Roxane Gay examines Lidia Yuknavitch‘s Chronology of Water, the current Rumpus Book Club selection. Her review is organized into handy sections, and she ends with an affirmative: “I will just…
I’m not going to try to bring you breaking news on this story–the situation is too fluid, and you don’t come to The Rumpus for that sort of story anyway,…
Self-promotion alert day 2: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? Oh hello, giant Russian underwater cave. This week in retro-future: the robot-filled year 2000.…
In the 1970s, writer Sigrid Nunez moved in with her boyfriend and his mother. She hovered over the couple, critiqued their sex life, had an endless parade of house guests,…
If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting…
If you scan the front pages of major news websites this morning, you might not know that anything happened in Wisconsin last night. The MSNBC website has a small piece…
Self-promotion alert: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? The Gatsby house may soon be no more. There is a lot I could say about…
There’s talk of a general strike and I’m guessing the recall effort just got a huge burst in excitement as well as funding. What happened? The Wisconsin Senate just passed…
They’ve traveled the world for more than half a century, in the suitcases of antiques dealers and in the collections of academic institutes. Now important books from the Science of…