A Perfect Sketch of a Moment: Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures
“Memory is not a journalist’s tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clear.”
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Posts Tagged: photography
When To Believe an Unreliable Narrator: Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts
The aestheticization of violence in literature, like other representations, can be deceiving.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Parallax
Summer was ending, and my sister was shrinking. I first noticed when we were sitting on the dock near the lake at our summer camp; as she stretched her bare leg toward the water, I saw a new striation of musculature in her calf, a ridge that didn’t used to be there. Atop her denim […]
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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour
To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
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Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour
To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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Sketch Book Reviews: American Monuments by David Benjamin Sherry
An illustrated review of David Benjamin Sherry’s new book, AMERICAN MONUMENTS!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber
“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
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Hope Is the Last Bastion: Talking with Suchitra Vijayan
Suchitra Vijayan discusses her new book, MIDNIGHT’S BORDERS.
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Omayra (In Other Words)
I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Flight Risk
An exclusive look at the cover of Joy Castro’s forthcoming novel, FLIGHT RISK.
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Playing House: A Conversation with Megan Culhane Galbraith
Megan Culhane Galbraith discusses her debut book, THE GUILD OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian discusses her newest collection, WORN.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Sex with Strangers
An exclusive look at the cover of Michael Lowenthal’s forthcoming story collection, SEX WITH STRANGERS.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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A Photographer’s Wife
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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What We Eventually Forget: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory
I surprised myself by reading Memory in an afternoon.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #219: Zak Ferguson
“[I]t is an itch that needs to be scratched. To test. To push. To prove to myself.”
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Inhabitation and Invocation: Candice Wuehle’s Death Industrial Complex
The speaker must believe in transience, in shapeshifting without permission.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
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A Kind of Cartography: Talking with Elizabeth Geoghegan
Elizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #172: Leanne Shapton
“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
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Pronk: On Still Life Painting and the Price of Showing Off
Everything is political. To believe otherwise is a form of willful ignorance.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #166: T Kira Madden
“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her new novel, THIS MOURNABLE BODY.
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TORCH: Haiti, Crossing Borders of the Mind
The ocean is deep, unfathomably so. And one can stay on the surface or keep on plumbing the depths.
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These Places Surround Me: Talking with Quintan Ana Wikswo
Quintan Ana Wikswo discusses her novel, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be, delving into the facets of trauma, and her creative processes.
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Souvenirs and Slaying Dragons: A Conversation with Rolf Potts
Rolff Potts discusses his new book, Souvenir, the mythological element of souvenir collecting, and the inevitability of mortality.
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Ready to See Magic Everywhere: Talking with Rachel Lyon
Rachel Lyon discusses her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, artistic communities, the quotidian nature of the supernatural, and hyper-gentrification.
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