Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… A fountain that thinks it’s a printer. Phoebe Chung has portrait lighting gone wild. Your emotions should know these words. Carl…
A bitterly violent war against Mexican Drug Cartels wages on across the U.S. border. Tens of thousands are being murdered, and over a million are being forced to flee their homes.…
Happy Birthday, Susan Sontag. You would have been 80 today. Here is an entry from her collection of journals and notebooks, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh. Also, check out…
It may have taken Jessica Pratt five years to get her debut album released after she recorded it, but judging by the well-deserved welcome mat critics are rolling out for…
What would you do if you happened to witness a car crash that injured no humans but mortally wounded a black bear? If you’re Jackson Landers, you finish the bear…
Why do we incorporate our personal lives into works of fiction? And how do we know when to stop? In a post for the New York Times‘s “Draft” series, “about the…
Joshua Mohr has released a book trailer for his forthcoming novel, Fight Song. (It was filmed here at The Rumpus offices!) You can read the Rumpus interview between Mohr and Michelle Haimoff, and mark your…
At Imprint, check out Joshua Landsman’s “Writers I Have Loved” project, where he has illustrated a variety of authors in a beautiful diary format. Each drawing is accompanied by a…
Oakland artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez is the narrator of the new video series Migration Is Beautiful. The films feature artists and advocates and their plights in fighting for the dignity…
One of the hardest parts of developing artificial intelligence, writes Frank Bures for Poets & Writers, is trying to teach computers causality: how and why one thing follows from another. Humans…
In England, young McDonald’s customers will no longer be receiving toys with their Happy Meals. Instead, they will be bestowed with books! McDonald’s is working in conjunction with the National…