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 ...

First impressions are important. As a new student at four elementary schools across two states, my fun fact was a crowd-pleaser—I once lived near the equator. College admissions learned about my ...

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.

As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman, I related to the unnamed narrator in Jess Shannon’s debut novel Cleaner (Scribner, 2026). While the narrator, a highly educated visual artist in her ...

On May 31, 2019, The Rumpus highlighted Dorothy Roberts and this foundational text in a curated reading list issue titled “What to Read When Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack.” HOWEVER: AI says that “ ...

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 ...

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 sleep is incantory, our dreams are spells. They think we are joking at first. That we’ve fallen down a rabbit hole. Paid someone too much to read our palms. We let them believe this. We go the ...