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, ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

In December 2021, writer Alex McMillan created the “Yankee Candle’s Stages of Abstraction.” They described a series of increasingly abstract Yankee Candle scents. The lower levels represent physical ...

There is a video I have watched only once. A man in Al Fashir, in Sudan’s Darfur region, holds his phone to his face. He is calling his son. The footage moves the way all footage of this kind moves, ...

I have a scar that runs from my hip to my knee, and for years I described it the way a doctor would: fracture, plate, six screws. The morning before the surgery, I remember staring at the ceiling of a ...

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 ...