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Animal as Metaphor: Erica Berry’s Wolfish
Emotions rattle us. A high in one moment—holding someone’s hand, say—does not prevent dread or regret or humiliation from cropping up in the
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The Rumpus needs a REDESIGN
The Rumpus needs your help. Today, we’re launching this $10K crowdfunding campaign to redesign the magazine’s website. We’ve been running on
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Toward a Glimmering Unknowable Self: A Conversation with Emerson Whitney
Emerson Whitney, writer and professor at Goddard College, has given us a thrilling memoir in Daddy Boy (McSweeney’s), the electric follow-up to his
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Recollections of a Non-Existence: Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X
Few pieces of art are as unanimously disturbing as The Pain Room, a 1979 installation by the mid-20th century iconoclast known as X. Even fewer are
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Red Cedar
A living tree is a dare. Jordan had a favorite, a western red cedar, that lay just a few minutes’ walk into the woods behind his house. It was his
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The Fragile Ecology of Teenage Boyhood in Shy: A Conversation with Max Porter
George Saunders said it best: “Max Porter is one of my favorite writers in the world. Why? Because he’s always asking the most important
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Voices On Addiction: Speaking Ill of the Dead
1989 Dettingen, Germany It’s a late summer afternoon, the sky blush and gold. The heat has left my cheeks flushed and my hair sweaty. I find my
Call for Submissions: Parallel Practice
New Column Alert <3 Parallel Practice, a new monthly column at The Rumpus, is edited by our very own Anna Held, whom you may remember from our
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by E. Hughes
Bulldaggers Between Starshine and Clay I want to fashion my black mouth to speak this journey of our bodies into utterance: What does
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Against a Singular Story: A Conversation with Jane Wong
Written with poetic lyricism laced with rage and humor, Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is rooted in her childhood as the daughter of
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Memory Among Landscape: Alissa Hattman’s Sift
I first fell in love with Alissa Hattman’s writing when I was introduced to her short stories—a favorite being “Bearing,” about a pregnant
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The Poem as an Archive of Your Life and the World Around You: The Rumpus Interview with Clint Smith
Through various poetic forms he shows us how living is rife with struggle and challenge and uncertainty. The poems in Above Ground are at turns
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Very Little of This Book Is Made-up: Talking with R.F. Kuang about her Novel
R.F. Kuang’s latest novel, Yellowface (William Morrow, 2023), tells the story of two writers, June Hayward and Athena Liu, who are linked by a
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A Perfect Sketch of a Moment: Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures
On the left, painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s 1832 portrait of Louis-François Bertin, dressed in black, hands on his knees, looking at us