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Scodellaro’s characters have autonomy, know their comforts and desires, and find space and safety in the corners of forgotten places. They grieve on countertops, chewing ice and waiting for the return of a lover who has left for another.
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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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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Zakiya Dalila Harris discusses her debut novel, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL.
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Erin Hensley and Julia Callahan share a reading list to celebrate I REMEMBER EVERYTHING.
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Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new story collection, VERGE.
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What if the arrival of alien life wasn’t the future, but just another recapitulation of our bloody past?
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Steph Post shares a list of books to celebrate her forthcoming novel, MIRACULUM.
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Books to read in this fraught political moment.
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Terry H. Watkins shares a list of books to celebrate her novel, DARLING GIRL.
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Kendra Fortmeyer discusses her first novel, HOLE IN THE MIDDLE.
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Rumpus editors select writing that speaks to women’s history—past, present, and future.
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Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let’s Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
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The sensibilities of whiteness do not want us to work, do not want us to think, do not want us to imagine outside of its bounds.
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Lola StVil discusses her latest novel, Girls Like Me, how her characters demand to be written, what her family thinks of her writing career, and why representation is essential.
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Brooke C. Obie discusses the historical basis for her debut novel, Book of Addis, writing to dismantle white supremacy, and why Black speculative fiction is integral to her survival.
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle on her new collection Interrupted Geographies, writing against the pastoral tradition, the power of persona poems, and the town of Pithole.
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The dystopia is granularly brutal, its causes and effects sadly plausible.
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Turn off the television and pick up a book. You’ll feel better for it, we promise.
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Angie Thomas discusses her debut novel, The Hate U Give, landing an agent on Twitter, and why she trusts teenagers more than the publishing industry.
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Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic novel Kindred.
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We asked nineteen authors what books they’d suggest as recommended reading in light of America’s new political reality.
...moreIs Star Wars the Death Star of science fiction? Rat nirvana: being tickled till your ears turn pink. 250-million-year-old rocks might soothe science-religion conflict.
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I envisioned a new science fiction canon, one in which I was a cyborg, fashioning my body into something new.
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Jessa Crispin on reading abroad, watching ships chug through the Bosporus, and watching Outlander.
...moreUnderwriting the words on that page are the counterposing sentiments I see in many writers I know, especially writers of color: At one pole there’s, I just want to be okay; I want my family/community to be okay. At the other pole there’s, If I only reach the mountaintop I’ll be respected, valid, wealthy, etc. […]
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…what unfolds is a fantasia on sex, race, murder, and slavery—the DNA of America.
...moreFor all their imaginative potential, fantasy series often fail to think outside the whitewashed walls of the same old box: We can consider worlds in which protagonists must contend not only with dark prophecies and darker enemies, but also with gentrification and unreliable subway lines.
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Author Daniel José Older talks about his new novel, Shadowshaper, noir influence in urban fantasy, gentrification, white privilege and the publishing industry, and why we need diverse books, now more than ever.
...moreThere’s a chance you’ll hear Peter Ho Davies read the first sentence of his story “Chance” and you’ll be hooked. There’s also a chance you won’t, but either way, it’s worth a visit to Drum, the “literary magazine for your ears” that publishes audio of writers reading their fiction, essays, and interviews. This week, you […]
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