From the Archive: The Dark All Around Us
There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.
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imagination
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Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
True Detective and a Greyhound: On Imagination and Survival
It’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
Imagination as Oasis: A Conversation with Sulaiman Addonia
Sulaiman Addonia discusses his new novel, SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #198: Rene Denfeld
“Healing is a process you must actively engage in.”
Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey
Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #103: Andrew Battershill
Picture the French Surrealists recast as mobsters running a crime ring and you have the premise for Batterhill’s story.
Imagination Is Like Grace: Meghan O’Rourke’s Sun in Days
A poem doesn’t bring the dead back to life, but a memory has a touch of immortality: it’s a sort of recompense—forever isn’t exactly a lie, even if it’s not completely true.
Steering Clear of “McMagic”
At the New Yorker, an elegant and comprehensive essay by Julie Phillips from a visit with Ursula Le Guin at her home in Portland, Oregon touches on the importance of place,…
In This Hell Here With You
When people call other people crazy I don’t get mad, I get bored. When people tell me ghosts don’t exist, I just get bored. Over at JSTOR Daily, poet Dorothea…
Child’s Play
Not a day goes by that there isn’t some new study on how children’s brains work and what kind of media they should be consuming, With all the scientifically backed…