From the Archive: What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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Posts Tagged: Margaret Atwood
Notable Online: 3/28–4/3
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of John Stanley’s Little Lulu
For the longest time, John Stanley’s Little Lulu was one of the best kept secrets in comics.
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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha
Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.
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Notable Online: 8/30–9/5
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Until Democracy Falls: Talking with Matthew Baker
Matthew Baker discusses his new story collection, WHY VISIT AMERICA.
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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Notable Online: 6/7–6/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Learning to Listen: A Conversation with Natalia Hero
Natalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
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Great Pain, Great Pleasure: Here All Night, Nightshade, and Blazons
All three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.
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No Resolutions: Talking with Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new story collection, VERGE.
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Agency and Wonder: Amina Cain’s Indelicacy
To read Amina Cain is to enter tide pools of the mind.
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2019
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2019!
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A Gripping, Limited Call to Arms: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
There are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
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Both Ways at Once: Talking with Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Notable Twin Cities: 9/8–9/14
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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What to Read When the Patriarchy’s Got You Down
Contributors to INDELIBLE IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS share a reading list to fight the patriarchy blues.
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Notable Chicago: 9/6–9/12
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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A Very Precarious Moment: Talking with Karen Russell
Karen Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
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Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
Poison now snakes into what’s left of the water.
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What to Read When Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack
Rumpus editors share a list of books to read as the fight for reproductive rights intensifies.
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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.
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Notable Twin Cities: 11/4–11/10
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 8/22–8/28
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Fidelity to Deep Emotion: Lauren Groff’s Florida
The sentence is Groff’s most fertile ground.
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The Thread: The Masked Man
What I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.
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Notable Portland: 6/7–6/13
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Like Juggling Knives: Talking with Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.
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