This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreBecome a Rumpus Member
Join NOW!A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreJaquira Díaz discusses the challenge of writing about family members, her greatest joy as a writer, and her literary role models.
...moreMot was living my own fear… I wanted to learn from him how I might survive, if I too ended up without a home, without the resources to live what I thought of as a minimally decent life.
...moreYou can count on One Story as a sort of literary sieve, distilling story-sized servings of up-and-coming writers we should know, and soon enough will know, if we don’t know them already. Next week, One Story will host its annual Literary Debutante Ball, a party thrown in honor of those who’ve published stories with them and […]
...moreWith more unraveling of the Murdoch/phone-hacking scandal, the consequences and reverberations of the case have grown extensive and increasingly grave. The latest development came to light this morning when Sean Hoare, a former employee of the News of the World, who initially outed Andy Coulson for his involvement and awareness of the phone-hacking activity at […]
...more