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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Souls Are Out A-Wandering
I first heard about the Raramuri from the backseat of my mother’s 1972 blue Travelall before it broke down one too many times in the dead of winter and was relegated to the graveyard of dead vehicles...
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Breaking the Binaries: A Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
A master of reinvention in her own life, author Lidia Yuknavitch reimagines the historical figure Joan of Arc in her just-released The Book of Joan. One of the most highly anticipated books of 2017,...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #81: Chanelle Benz
Chanelle Benz’s debut collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, is filled with characters often facing a moral crossroads. The stories contain the unexpected, like a classic Western complete...
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Where You Put It on the Line: A Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
If you weren’t paying attention, it might appear that Mychal Denzel Smith exploded onto the scene in 2013. With a regular column in Feministing, as a Knobler Fellow for The Nation Institute, appearing...
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“Everywhere They Hurt Little Girls”: Female Revenge in Game of Thrones
For disempowered female characters in Game of Thrones, revenge is a symbolic act of asserting agency. It can be done quietly and intimately, like Ellaria Sand murdering Myrcella Lannister with a...
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Run for Her Life
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. – Margaret Atwood Police in Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts are investigating three deaths of female...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #101: The Dardenne Brothers
Perhaps most consistent and striking across the spare, unflinching filmography of brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is the degree of integrity granted each of their characters. Theirs is a...
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The Cost of Doing Business
If I’m walking down the street and I see a Hindu and the setting is right, I will hit him or her. We plan some of our most extreme attacks such as breaking windows, breaking car windows, and crashing...
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A Deeply Human Act: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
For the boys of Danez Smith’s National Book Award-finalist collection, Don’t Call Us Dead, _____every year, days get longer. time clogged with boys. the boys O the boys. they still come in droves. the...
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Lady Killers and Our Obsession with Murder: Talking with Tori Telfer
In her first book, Lady Killers, Tori Telfer tells the true stories of unknown female serial killers. The book, investigates not whodunnit, but rather who is she? Each chapter attempts to strip the...
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The Rumpus Mini Interview #106: Louise Marburg
Louise Marburg had been in my orbit for years—she was close with my aunt and uncle, my cousins, and even, as it turned out, one of my friends from college—but our paths didn’t cross until four years...
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The Peep King’s Legacy: A Family Portrait
The day after Hugh Hefner died, I received a text from my sister that our grandfather was starring alongside James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in HBO’s new series, The Deuce. I had long suspected...
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Cowboy or Terrorist? Harney County and the Trump Presidency
1. In January 2016, in a corner of the Oregon high desert called Harney County, a group of anti-government militants walked into a federal wildlife refuge known primarily for protecting endangered...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kamilah Aisha Moon
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kamilah Aisha Moon about her new collection Starshine & Clay (Four Way Books, September 2017), the power of naming, and the connection between creation and...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #110: Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell is a British cartoonist with a melancholy sentiment and gorgeous drawing talent. Her new graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable, is about dual fire-related tragedies: First her mother’s...
View ArticleThe Unreality Marches On: Ice by Anna Kavan
There is always a sort of subconscious suspicion that comes with books that are “rescued from obscurity”: how good is something, really, if it gets forgotten about? So I am always hesitant regarding...
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Spotlight: “Perfect Sisters” by Joyanna M and Lily Bell
“Perfect Sisters” is a graphic narrative loosely depicting Lily Bell’s experiences in suburban Massachusetts, and with domestic violence. It touches on how a traditional family can fail the victim of...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #115: Bao Phi
Minneapolis has a life of its own in Bao Phi’s Thousand Star Hotel. It appears in nearly every poem—crumbling in some places, lively in others—and its richly described infrastructure houses Phi’s...
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The Violence of Lost Time: Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erin Mouré
It goes without saying that the daily life one leads will affect the way one’s poetry will sound. When a writer has exceptionally acute feelings entwined with, and always engaging with, the infinite...
View ArticleENOUGH: Towards Survival
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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