Posts Tagged: Tradition
Introducing Lamoishe and Hezbollah Schoenfeld
I nearly got disowned over my decision not to pass on the family name.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing from LGBTQIA+ writers.
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Marriage of a Different Kind
I will marry and find love, because this is the closest I have felt in a long time to giving it another try.
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Jane Austen in Pakistan: A Conversation with Soniah Kamal
Soniah Kamal discusses her forthcoming novel, UNMARRIAGABLE.
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If You Don’t Know, Now You Know: Talking with Joseph Rios
Joseph Rios discusses his debut collection, SHADOWBOXING: POEMS AND IMPERSONATIONS.
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Grape Leaves
Comfort and memory and grief commingled in the dish.
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It’s Fine, It’s Good, It’s Beautiful
And the trees—each positioned in corner windows in the front of the house—they will be the talk of the neighborhood. This is how a house becomes a home.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Katia D. Ulysse
Katia D. Ulysse discusses her forthcoming novel, Mouths Don’t Speak, the importance of religion and music in the novel and in Haitian culture, and why Haiti will always be “home.”
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The Ability to Pass Becomes Her Cage: Talking with SJ Sindu
SJ Sindu discusses her new novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, queer readings of Hindu scriptures, and issues of privilege and power.
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Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life
Ending a relationship is hard, but it’s not as hard as quitting an institution. And the thing we often forget about marriage is that it is an institution.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.
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We Wish You A Literary Christmas
From Dickens to Nabokov to Ali Smith, Kate Webb traces the history of authors pondering Christmas, and the 21st century revival of the Christmas story: Even in our prickly individualism, hemmed in by consumer goods, there are moments when we can escape from safe, homogenized lives to experience the tingling pleasures of heat and cold, […]
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The Last Book I Loved: Tradition
Antonia Crane explains why TRADITION by Marci Blackman is the last book she loved.
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