Between the angular cuts of the typography, the searing red letterforms, and the torn wallpaper, the cover of Our Cut of Salt ...

It is somatosensory memory at work—the smell of dying leaves and lake water and Barbasol, of suddenly freezing air and pine ...

Oswaldo Zavala is a journalist and Professor of contemporary Latin American literature and culture at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is an idea that I wanted so much to introduce because it explains why there’s intergenerational conflict and misunderstanding. It also causes so many problems between ...

Alice liked D.C best when the sludgy Potomac was still a mirror, a few rowers scratching the surface like skimmers or heteroptera gerridae, legs spread wide enough to balance on surface tension alone.

Floridians from all different Caribbean and Latin American countries of origin make regular pilgrimages for hard-to-find food and other products that remind them of their homelands. Amaris Castillo ...

The October installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on October 26th at 7pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with New York Times best-selling author Min Jin Lee about her ...

My new novel—my fourth but the first to draw from my Palestinian heritage—is about a Gazan immigrant to Chicago. As I was writing, friends kept referring to it as my Palestinian novel, which sounded ...

Many disliked the blunt disregard for Homer’s epic poem in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, altering and even eliminating altogether some of its most famous passages. It is true that in ...

Hernan Diaz’s Ply (Riverhead Books, 2026) is a work of unapologetic maximalism. It is a Dickensian story of an orphan mastering an illicit trade; a plot-driven noir; a pointed exploration of our ...

what time was if he didn’t have to explain it. Kathryn says these are the things that give hope: a white dog in the snow howling at the train gone by Sei Shonagon says these are the topics of poetry: ...