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Frankenstein
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Expunging the Bogeyman: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
The root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.
Driven from the Village with Pitchforks
“Monster” is a good name for anything you want to destroy.
Both Ways at Once: Talking with Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
What to Read When You’re Writing Your Truth
Tracy Strauss shares a reading list to celebrate her debut book, I JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU YET.
What to Read When You’re Afraid of Growing Up
Kendra Allen shares a reading list to celebrate her debut essay collection, WHEN YOU LEARN THE ALPHABET.
Sophia Hanson Wants to Believe
Don’t try to make human what you are not willing to regard as human.
The Rumpus 2017 Holiday Gift Guide
We've gathered up our favorite gifting ideas this holiday season and put them together into one handy list!
It’s Never Too Late to Be Found: A Conversation with Rene Denfeld
Rene Denfeld discusses her latest book, The Child Finder, the ways in which trauma traps us, and the important role of imagination in finding resilience and escape.
Why Is It Always up to the Women?
That's the real tangle of women's labor; it's too deeply ingrained to the way our lives work for us to properly strike from it.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #72: Laurie Sheck
Laurie Sheck is the author, most recently, of Island of the Mad, and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The…
Carving the Uncanny Valley
Any Luddite with half a brain has already begun stockpiling nonperishables for the inevitable moment the robots rise up against us. Over at the Ploughshares blog, Joelle Renstrom recounts how…