“The Search for Decolonial Love”
In an extensive two-part Boston Review interview, Paula M.L. Moya talks with Junot Díaz about race and gender in his writing, emotional decolonization, and Monstro, his novel in progress.“There’s that...
View ArticleCaine Prize Controversy Continues
Prominent Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sparked outrage in the African literary community last week with comments she made about the Caine Prize, a prestigious annual award for African...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Translating Proust
For the Boston Review, Leland de la Durantaye assesses the latest edition of Proust’s Swann’s Way. Writing more than just a book review, Durantaye outlines some of Proust’s early struggles, as well as...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
Leesa Cross-Smith’s debut story collection, Every Kiss a War, dropped last week from Mojave River Press. Written in the second person, her incantatory response reads like a spiritual to-do list, almost...
View ArticleA Poetics of “Radical Caring”
Reviewing Ann Lauterbach’s new collection of poems, Under the Sign, Jo Ann Clark argues for a new poetics of “radical caring.” The collection shows Lauterbach struggling with the demons of world where...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Alissa Nutting has given us the story of a woman with a transparent panel covering her beating heart. Her story, “The Transparency Project,” arrived via Guernica...
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Fama
“Reality is a buzzkill,” Ben Fama says in his newest book, but inside the world of Fantasy I’m too buzzed to notice. Ben has published several chapbooks, including Cool Memories and Odalisque, as well...
View ArticlePoetry & Paradoxes
When I loved him it felt like light / Coming out of my skin. I don’t mean this /In a good way. In the Boston Review, Lisa Olstein provides a lovely prelude to a sampling of devastatingly beautiful...
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The Rumpus Interview with Danniel Schoonebeek
I’m willing to bet: before you knew the name Danniel Schoonebeek I knew the name Danniel Schoonebeek. Growing up in Delhi, New York—a town of 5,000 on the western fringe of the Catskills—I knew...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #85: Elizabeth Metzger
I have known the poet Elizabeth Metzger since kindergarten—and ever since I have known her, she has been a poet. When we played the The Game of Life, a board game, she wrote small lyrics about the...
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