Read Features & Reviews Reviews Rumpus Original Text Colliding with Text: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Josh EnglishJuly 5, 2022 Much of the novel questions what constitutes a life: If it’s reduced or subverted or is itself a simulation, is it still worth living?Read
Read Rumpus Original We Are More We Are More: Tehranto Nedda SarsharJune 15, 2022 I can’t recall a single time that my father has told me about his journey through the mountains . . . It was just something that I picked up, some truth that I have always carried.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original Wash Karine HackNovember 16, 2021 I hate the word clean. It’s antiseptic, scrubbed raw; it makes me think of sin and guilt and a God I don’t believe in.Read
Read Rumpus Original Tongue Stuck Irina DumitrescuOctober 12, 2021 It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung Annie LiontasJuly 21, 2021 Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.Read
Read Other This Week in Indie Bookstores Ian MacAllenJuly 6, 2021 Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews Reading the Landscape of the Past: Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest Sangamithra IyerDecember 23, 2020 Learning to read a landscape can reveal a deep history.Read
Read Other This Week in Indie Bookstores Ian MacAllenOctober 13, 2020 Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt Cody LeeAugust 12, 2020 Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay Jessica FuAugust 7, 2020 Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.Read