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Jul 27, 2017

There Is Simply No Time for This: Whose Streets? and Civil Rights Cinema

It is unlikely I will see the US justice system evolve toward an egalitarian ideal in my lifetime. But Whose Streets? does offer a clearly visible North Star.

Staying Syncretic: A Conversation with Kool A.D.

Features & Reviews, Music, Politics, Rumpus Original

Andrew Duncan Worthington

Jul 24, 2017

Staying Syncretic: A Conversation with Kool A.D.

Kool A.D. discusses his debut novel, OK, the war on drugs, systemic destruction of left-leaning movements by the government, and the inability to escape American capitalism.

Politics, Rumpus Original

Rachel McKenny

Jul 12, 2017

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.

Politics

Buffy Flores

Apr 27, 2017

This Week in Trumplandia

Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community,…

Politics

Buffy Flores

Apr 20, 2017

This Week in Trumplandia

Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your community,…

The Dark Heart of America: On David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon

Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Lyz Lenz

Apr 18, 2017

The Dark Heart of America: On David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann’s new book Killers of the Flower Moon explores the 1920s murders of the Osage tribe, the making of the FBI, and is a reminder of the all too recent history of betrayals that comprise America’s dark heart.

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tell Me Something Good

Rumpus Original

DeMisty Bellinger

Apr 16, 2017

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tell Me Something Good

I need to feel that I can be a woman and be black in this present cultural climate.

Poetry, Rumpus Original

David Biespiel

Mar 28, 2017

David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 9): “The City Limits”

[A] nation’s poetry degenerates if it does not embody the language of what is mysterious…

Rumpus Original, Sex

Corinne Manning

Feb 18, 2017

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Ideal Lover

I don’t mind being left with a bruise if it reminds me that someone imagined something for me, that art can be part of the experience.

Features & Reviews, Interviews, Poetry, Rumpus Original

David Breithaupt

Jan 27, 2017

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.