domesticity
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The Worlds We Inhabit: Home: New Arabic Poems
These writers expand the meaning of the word home by virtue of their lives and their writing.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado
“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #203: Molly Spencer
“I would say the primary role of speech in these poems is to attempt something. To try.”
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Bounty
The pleasure comes from the bounty itself, the viewing of it, knowing that she doesn’t have to eat it but that she could.
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At Home and Not at Home Everywhere: A Conversation with Xu Xi
Xu Xi discusses her new essay collection, THIS FISH IS FOWL.
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Both Aggressor and Victim: Adèle by Leïla Slimani
Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
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More Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
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A Window with Reality Through It: Everything Here by Billie Swift
Swift’s shuffled lines create haunting, breathtaking possibilities.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone’s debut, HOME MAKING.
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Modern Lives We Lived: Xuan Juliana Wang’s Home Remedies
Social and economic forces are always pressing on the characters in Wang’s work.
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Life after Death: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley discusses her newest novel, LATE IN THE DAY.
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Taking Control and Staking a Claim: Erin Adair-Hodges’s Let’s All Die Happy
This is lovely writing, alive, thoroughly thought, and thoroughly felt.