Nazi Germany
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Art, Love, and Resistance in 1940s Europe: Talking with Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton discusses her new novel, THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS.
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Investigative but Intimate: A Conversation with Robert L. Shuster
Robert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
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Reclaiming History from the Bigots: Jill Lepore’s This America
History itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.
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Trauma as Inheritance: Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors
The survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
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The Promise of Werfel’s Musa Dagh: Portraying Genocide in Fiction
How does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
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The Privilege of Art: Courtney Maum’s Costalegre
There is no real freedom to create art, only the obligation to wealth.
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Take the Words “Judeo-Christian” Out of Your Damn Mouth
“Everything about the term is predicated on bad faith. It needs to die.”
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The Election and the Ash Borer
Does it matter what words a sign says when a symbol says so much more? A white X. A carved swastika. Things get torn down from less.
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Readers Report: The New Patriot
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The New Patriot.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Clarence Major
Clarence Major discusses his new collection Chicago Heat and Other Stories, the artist’s role in politics, Donald Trump and race relations, and Paris in the good old days.
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself,…
