3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1559+ words) Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer. She is devoted to visual culture from the African continent & diaspora, anticolonial cinema, and the experimental work of women filmmakers. Her work pays particular attention to the materiality of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (464+ words) For most Black church kids, especially girls, this discovery of one’s voice is a tricky thing, because unless entreated, the church was a place for kids to be silent. That wouldn’t do for Allen. Penning her voice became a place…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (787+ words) Once upon a time there was a girl named Lux Nightmare who thought you could change the world by taking your clothes off. So she did. And it worked, sort of. These days she tries to change the world by beating…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (222+ words) The Rumpus The September Rumpus Book Club Selection: “The Odyssey” with Emily Wilson Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1858+ words) Queens of the Crypt is the debut graphic novel of British freelance illustrator Dominic Evans, pen name Dom&Ink. With a background in fashion illustration and a passion for reality-TV divas and comic books, Dom&Ink wrote and illustrated this…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (574+ words) I spoke with Row about metafiction, Buddhism, and the wildness of short stories over Zoom. The Rumpus: Storyknife brings together stories written over a period of almost two decades. At what point did you realize that these stories belonged together,…...