Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original What to Read When From the Archives: What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride The RumpusJune 13, 2023 Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Pride Month!Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original From the Archives: The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Bad Blood Edgar GomezMarch 21, 2023 To give blood in the United States today is like joining an elite, profoundly uncool, hyper-exclusive club.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man Alejandro VarelaOctober 10, 2022 This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original From the Archive: The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Butch and the Bathroom Barrie Jean BorichApril 5, 2022 Then there is the bathroom issue. My beloved is like me, like you, like anyone. Sometimes a person has to go.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath Arielle K. JonesFebruary 14, 2022 There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars Krithika SukumarJanuary 18, 2022 This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.Read
Read Essays Rumpus Original Sex From the Archive: Unbound Lauren KayesJanuary 18, 2022 It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: Letting Myself Breathe The RumpusJanuary 14, 2022 A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: Self-Possession Kayla Kumari UpadhyayaDecember 29, 2021 The words blur, become meaningless. You need them to be meaningless.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews How to Watch While Being Watched: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis Lisa Hsiao ChenDecember 29, 2021 The experience, rather than linear, is borealian.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Christopher Gonzalez The Rumpus Book ClubDecember 22, 2021 Christopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Poetry The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Nefertiti Asanti Erica N. CardwellDecember 16, 2021 "...each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with."Read