Svetlana Alexievich
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Every Separation Is a Link: A Conversation with Yanara Friedland
Yanara Friedland discusses her book-length essay GROUNDSWELL.
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Divergences from History: A Conversation with K Chess
K Chess discusses her debut novel, FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors select writing that speaks to women’s history—past, present, and future.
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A Woman of the Ear
If Flaubert was ‘a man of the quill,’ then perhaps I am ‘a woman of the ear.’ My interviews aren’t interviews as such. Just talks. We just talk and my role is to listen. Listening was difficult at first because…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Lohvinau House of Literature in Belarus will be one of the few shops one can buy Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s books in her native country. Her books are hard to find because Alexievich has been critical of the authoritarian government. Books…
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Reporting as Literature
Reporter and writer Svetlana Alexievich recently won the Nobel Prize for literature. In a piece for the New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch brings up some questions that this poses about the relationship between reportage literature and other forms—is one more necessary or relevant in…