Convulsing, she asks, “Who’s gonna save me?” The plea repeats in different pitches until she is left lying prone, still ...

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

About halfway into Wendy S. Walters’s new book, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint (Scribner, 2026), the author writes about encountering a fellow writer at a literary festival who asks her ...

There is no use speaking in tongues this year.

An archivist first recommended I read Doireann Ní Ghríofa. I was interested in writing a counter-history for Joan Vollmer, a literary figure who was murdered by her husband, the writer William S.

On the second week of her administrative leave, in that hour of morning after Greg left for work, when Aleena, too, should be fighting highway traffic but was instead grounded at home feeling strange ...

a baby made dead before even conceived, born still if born at all. I wanted to doubt. As our baby crept toward viability, dead baby birds kept appearing in the driveway. The baby bird’s body soft ...

“How much did you pay for that?” a woman asked, eyeing the badge-and-lanyard strung around my neck. I told her I was a critic, and that press accreditation for the Toronto International Film Festival ...

Dystopian survival amidst environmental breakdown. Violent conflicts over fresh water and arable land. Total societal collapse. Most of today’s climate fiction focuses on impending doom, but Kawai ...

I am going to change the subject this week (again!), but first I wanted to thank you for your absolute banger of a response to my breakdown piece. You somehow always know how to call me out in a way ...

They were making love in the grass, real grass that had first been grown from sod, transported from a garden store in the suburbs, then hoisted on a cherry-picker and installed atop a corporate coffee ...

Laurie Ann Guerrero turns to needlework and embroidery as both artistic practice and poetic language in REDWORK (Autumn House Press, 2026), winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Prize. The collection ...