Joe at the Aquarium
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
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Posts Tagged: science
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Christine No
“Balance is its own beautiful practice.”
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Illuminating the Darkness: Madeleine L’Engle’s The Moment of Tenderness
For anyone looking for some truth and tenderness amidst a still-trying time, look no further.
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Asking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn
Rachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Black Kids in Space: Afrofuturism and Mainstream Comedy
We have to lead with our imagination, not with preconceived limitations.
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Magical Truth: A Conversation with Chloe N. Clark
Chloe N. Clark discusses her debut story collection, COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES.
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Fields of Light
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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Moral Fiction: Talking with Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor discusses his debut novel, REAL LIFE.
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How We Write the Dead: A Conversation with Vikram Paralkar
Vikram Paralkar discusses his debut novel, NIGHT THEATER.
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The Planet Will Survive Us: A Conversation with Liz Breazeale
Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #191: Cardy Raper
“I don’t think you ever have it all.”
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Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
Poison now snakes into what’s left of the water.
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A Complicated, Shifting Subjectivity: Talking with Franny Choi
Franny Choi discusses her second collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
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Consider Us Women: A Conversation with Kwoya Fagin Maples
Kwoya Fagin Maples discusses her poetry collection, MEND.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #163: Padma Venkatraman
“Stories have a power science doesn’t.”
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The Algorithm of Love
The life I had doesn’t flash like I see in movies. The life I want is what stares ahead.
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Part Skeptic, Part Believer: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons discusses her forthcoming novel, WEATHER WOMAN.
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Here Is the Physical Proof: Talking with Elizabeth Rush
Elizabeth Rush discusses RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE.
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Any Day Now: A Conversation with Anjali Sachdeva
Anjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
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The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: RememberYou
They had begun studying memory hoping to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, the doctor explains. But instead, they found other results.
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Spotlight: “Survivors” by Aubrey Hirsch
But more and more I began to wonder if you needed to be human to be a person.
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Mystery and the Unknown: Talking with Lauren Haldeman
Lauren Haldeman discusses her most recent poetry collection, Instead of Dying, making poetry accessible, and being open to the surprising possibilities of form.
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Rivers of Babylon: The Story of a Third-Trimester Abortion
She said something to me, then, that has been a great comfort. “You had a choice,” she said, “but you did not have free will.” A choice that was no choice at all.
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Repel the Wind
Why would I ask for my sanity from the Devil as I sleep walk, only to give it up again to the Holy Spirit?
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Amy Benson
Our American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #78: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
In 2016, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s writing won the Narrative Poetry Contest. Bertram’s work is formally and thematically expansive and this sampling, called “Facts About Deer and Other Poems,” showcases her incredible range. In the poem “They were armed with long guns”—a poem written in ten parts—the sections move between lists, plain declarations like, “You know // […]
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