Read Other This Week in Indie Bookstores Ian MacAllenAugust 14, 2018 Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!Read
Read Features & Reviews Marissa Korbel Rumpus Original Emboldened to Ask: A Conversation with Natalie Singer Marissa KorbelAugust 10, 2018 Natalie Singer discusses her debut memoir, CALIFORNIA CALLING.Read
Read Marissa Korbel Rumpus Original The Thread: American Garbage Marissa KorbelJuly 17, 2018 The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Community of the People: Tommy Orange’s There There Alex CavanaughJune 27, 2018 THERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Abattoir Lisa Lee HerrickMay 29, 2018 This is what my mother doesn’t want me to see: the death rattle in a forbidden room. This is what she doesn’t want me to know: how one life is sacrificed for another to live.Read
Read Deesha Philyaw Features & Reviews Rumpus Original VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Bethany C. Morrow Deesha PhilyawMay 16, 2018 Bethany C. Morrow discusses her debut novel, MEM, how it felt to read Toni Morrison for the first time, and her hope for Black girl readers.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews To Choose Music: Aja Gabel’s The Ensemble Tajja IsenMay 9, 2018 The Ensemble offers its readers the chance to breathe the rarefied air of an elite pursuit.Read
Read Film Rumpus Original The Girl Next Door: Pot Docs and Loss on the California Coast Andrew KaneApril 19, 2018 [A]s with any documentary, every one of our stories eventually becomes a ghost story. On a long enough timeline, that is.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #129: L.A. Johnson Katherine GibbelMarch 29, 2018 "Right now California is burning and yet there’s snow on mountains that I can also see from my window."Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Moving Targets Allie MariniMarch 20, 2018 Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.Read
Read Allyson McCabe Music Rumpus Original Wanted/Needed/Loved: Victoria Ruiz’s Grandma’s Grocery Board Allyson McCabe and Esme BlegvadMarch 15, 2018 I’m not a trained musician, but my grandma helped me to become fearless...Read
Read Music Rumpus Original Something Bigger and of Greater Value: Talking with Bruce Cockburn M.D. DunnFebruary 14, 2018 Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn discusses his new album, Bone on Bone, songwriting, and the benefits of not selling out.Read