Bartman: Reading books is one of the great joys of my life, and interpreting a book into visual language that, in some way, ...

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

Twice each month, artist Diana Weymar will dig into the Rumpus archives and make a piece of art — hand-embroidered — from one of our previously published pieces. This one, a quote from David Naimon, ...

Yiyun Li writes love stories. In her latest novel, Music Against the Night (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2026) —as in past novels, the author’s short fiction, and memoir writing—she explores several kinds ...

One of the key benefits of paid Rumpus membership is access to our book club recordings after the fact. Moving forward, we will post these monthly, but to catch up, here are the recordings to date.

“Be curious, not judgmental.” So says Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) in a beloved moment of the hit Apple TV series. In the scene, the excessively American Ted gallantly accepts a bet from the Richmond ...

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 ...

A decade ago, in my first year of teaching high school English, I was required to teach The Odyssey to ninth-graders. My only other interaction with the epic poem was when I read it in high school, ...

There is no use speaking in tongues this year.

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 ...

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 ...