What to Read When You’re in the In-Between Place
Suleika Jaouad shares a reading list to celebrate BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS.
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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld
Joyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.
Both Ways at Once: Talking with Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
What to Read When Your Life Feels Bifurcated
Judith Krummeck shares a reading list to celebrate her new book, OLD NEW WORLDS.
Congratulations to the NBCC Finalists!
We congratulate all of the NBCC finalists, and are especially pleased to have celebrated and featured the work of many of these writers on The Rumpus!
What to Read When You’ve Made It More Than Halfway through 2017
A list of Rumpus editors' favorite reads from 2017 thus far—books that have kept us sane, challenged us to work harder and think bigger, and kept us dreaming and hopeful.
All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.
What to Read When Things Go Nuclear
Here are some books to read that will remind you that there is beauty out there, even if it's hard-wrought.
What to Read When the President Cuts Funding for Everything Good
A list of books written by past NEA grant recipients, as well as books that inspire protest and remind us that we can make a different reality than the one we're in today.
Notable NYC: 3/4–3/10
Saturday 3/4: Peter Blackstock, senior editor at Grove Atlantic, curates Queer as Volk as part of the Festival Neue Literatur. Powerhouse Arena, 6 p.m, free. Timothy Liu and Christopher Salerno…
Do Likable Characters Equal Likable Stories?
I wonder if that is the case for many of us. Perhaps, in the widespread longing for likable characters, there is this: a desire, through fiction, for contact with what…