What to Read When Falling in Love Hurts
Falling in love for the first time or millionth time—or potentially final time—is never for the faint of heart. Love is messy, reckless, changeable. Love can be unkind, selfish, gut-wrenching,…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
February Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
February letters from Venita Blackburn and Marisa Crawford!
The Rumpus’s Most Anticipated Books of (early) 2024
Our editors share some of our most anticipated books coming out during the first few months of the new year.
January Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Letters in the Mail from Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones and Julia Fine!
What to Read When: The Most Beautiful Books of 2023
Another year of judging books by their covers <3
The Rumpus 2023 Gift Guide
Okay, a quick confession—I’m terrible at gifting. I occasionally land on the mark, but most of the time my ideas are either wild guesses or something thrown together in a panic, and I often fall back on the classics . . .
What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity
American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division.
December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our December Letters in the Mail come from Molly Crabapple and Taylor Byas.
The Rumpus Member Drive
Expanding The Rumpus’s membership program to at least 600 members is necessary for us to cover our basic operating costs and continue our mission of publishing risk-taking voices and emerging writers.
What to Read If You Want to Understand Adoptees
I was an adopted only child who taught myself to read at the age of three. Books were my world, my companions and my solace. I gravitated towards stories of…
What to Read When You’re Healing
In our cultural climate of reflecting and experiencing so much societal, governmental, and personal harm; it’s no wonder many have returned and revived poetry as a balm for the current moment.