From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Even the Moon
When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour
To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
You Can’t Stop Rivers from Running: Talking with Rajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
Place, Patois, and a Pinch of Politics: A Conversation with Celeste Mohammed
Celeste Mohammed discusses her debut novel-in-stories, PLEASANTVIEW.
Loving Something That May Destroy Us: A Conversation with Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
An Exploration of Belonging: Talking with Donna Hemans
Donna Hemans discusses her new novel, TEA BY THE SEA.
Colonialism as Alien Invasion: Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson
What if the arrival of alien life wasn’t the future, but just another recapitulation of our bloody past?
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #195: Curdella Forbes
“I wanted the thing to feel as ordinary as bread.”
Truth through Fiction: Talking with Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
Music and Spirituality: A Conversation with Marcia Douglas
Marcia Douglas discusses her forthcoming novel, THE MARVELLOUS EQUATIONS OF THE DREAD.
When a White Man Paints Black People
[H]ere comes this white boy, Asher Mains. Red-haired too, and bearded, like the pirates that once rummaged Grenada’s coves.