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A Meer-Kin in Paris
I have never seen locusts swarm a field of wheat, but I bet it looks a lot like Paris when the tourists arrive. Each year fifteen million of these creatures descend on the city, stripping the stores...
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The Rumpus Interview With Danielle Trussoni
Not long after the success of her first novel, Danielle Trussoni’s life became a fairy tale, when she and her writer husband Nikolai moved their family to a magical 13th century fortress in the...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Summer of Families
The summer after my mother left, my father began selling our household on evenings and weekends. We were still on Lincoln Avenue at the time—a single-story adobe just south of Los Angeles—and when he...
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Falling into Fear
My wife left me grousing on the couch. She had to get up early but told me before she went to bed, “Come get me if something happens.” We had gone to the polls early that morning, before ours even...
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Learning to Live Alone through the Legacy of Mary Tyler Moore
In the early months when I was first separated from my husband, I came home from work in the evenings and watched reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. The separation had not been my idea, nor...
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A Way to Make Sense of the World with Suzanne Buffam
Ever since I was a child, a good night’s sleep has eluded me. When my mom tucked me in bed at night, I peppered her with questions to make her stay longer. Once alone, I listened to my parents talking...
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A List of Concerns
Erica Trabold’s “A List of Concerns” was selected by Thomas Page McBee as the winner of the third annual Payton Prize, which seeks to honor one excellent nonfiction essay each year in memory of Payton...
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Concubines and Expat Husbands: Catching Up with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s latest novel, Sarong Party Girls, is written entirely in Singlish, a patois any English speaker can understand no matter how drunk she is. This comes in handy, because reading SPG...
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The Day the FBI Tapped Our Phones
I remember the young wife with a vivid clarity that only comes in those “change of life” moments, as they like to call them on health insurance forms. Outside it was the height of summer, but you’d...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Souls Are Out A-Wandering
I first heard about the Raramuri from the backseat of my mother’s 1972 blue Travelall before it broke down one too many times in the dead of winter and was relegated to the graveyard of dead vehicles...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Anniversary
By mid-morning, it was so hot her breath felt as if it were being drawn back into her. She took the tin washbasin out to the front yard, filled it with cold water, and shampooed her hair. If she turned...
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Reading across Cultures: A Conversation with Ratika Kapur
No one ever said affairs weren’t messy. Ratika Kapur’s second novel, The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma, is the story of a missed connection at a train station in Delhi that actually connects. Renuka...
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Voices on Addiction: Twenty-Five
This week, I celebrated twenty-five years without a drink. If I were asked to give a lead on this occasion (or a talk, or a share, or a qualification), depending on where you live, I’m not sure I’d say...
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What to Read When You Want to Hand-Swat Your Husband
This week saw a great many things happen, but the best one was the hand-swat heard ’round the world. (In case you missed it, the hand-swat in question happened between Donald Trump and his wife...
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Multitudes: (Re) Writing Mother
We are pleased to announce Multitudes, a new column at The Rumpus, which will feature the work of writers of color, actively seeking underrepresented voices and perspectives. We hope that the writers...
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Mixed Feelings: Why Do Men Always Want to Settle Down?
Dear Mixed Feelings, I am the type of woman who never enters a relationship unless she can clearly see the EXIT sign. In the past, this has meant having relationships with men who clearly couldn’t, for...
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Homebodies: Coverture
Related Posts: Spotlight: “My 30-Second Meditation” by Olivia de Recat Spotlight: “Unofficial History” by Arwen Donahue VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tara Betts The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay...
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This Week in Short Fiction
For the rest of this month, Granta will be publishing the winners of the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, awarded to five writers from five regions of the globe, with the mission to connect...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Mustard Seeds
When Ben left Miri, for real and forever, he left her heart in the kitchen sink, along with the dirty dishes. It was her day to do dishes, and so somehow the gesture was fair to Miri, even as it...
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Ten Minutes of Motherhood: A Conversation with Ariel Levy
As a writer for New York Magazine and the New Yorker, Ariel Levy mastered putting herself in foreign surroundings—from a nightclub for overweight women in Queens to the Mongolian steppe—and then...
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