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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 partner and I have been trying to have people over more often. We recently hosted a dinner party where the conversation found its way to retirement. Our acquaintances, all in their late twenties ...

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 ...