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Westward, Onward
The sunset seems to linger for hours, a band of orange stubbornly refusing to fade into the blue black of night. But finally, the strange silhouettes of the Joshua trees become indistinguishable in the...
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On Tragedy and Strength: Making Space for Our Stories
It wasn’t hard to dive into a conversation with author and friend Erika T. Wurth to discuss women, and particularly women of color, in the publishing world. We hunkered down at a favorite local hangout...
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A Confluence of Narratives: Talking with Debra Gwartney
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman might seem an unlikely heroine nowadays. The Christian missionary is commonly considered the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains, and the first to bear a child in...
View ArticlePresence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Jake Skeets
As a poet, I struggle with language—the English that America force-fed down my ancestors’ throats during assimilation and the Boarding School Era. My mouth struggles to reclaim the language of my...
View ArticlePresence: The Heartspeak of Indigenous Poets: Laura Da’
As a poet, I struggle with language—the English that America force-fed down my ancestors’ throats during assimilation and the Boarding School Era. My mouth struggles to reclaim the language of my...
View ArticleA Community of the People: Tommy Orange’s There There
Tommy Orange’s debut novel There There is grounded in place, specifically Oakland, California. Early on, Dene Oxendene, one of Orange’s dozen characters, encounters a smug outsider who inaccurately...
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Your Patriotism Isn’t Love, It’s Blindness
Like most American tales, this one begins with baseball. The unusual sight of an entirely left-handed battery on an otherwise empty diamond; father catching son. A splitter—fast and cutting—fools the...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Wa
wá. n. snow, snowflake (if size indicated) Wašíču n. fat taker, white person wašíŋ, n. lard, fat. n.n. (nickname) ex. Wašíŋ, Ray Little Weasel /Levoi’s name, given to him by his dad, the clichéd...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce about the recently released translation of Justine, Mondrup’s 2012 Danish novel about a young artist and the world of art in Denmark,...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Great Elk
I’m on the way to visit Cahokia with the Osage Nation Historical Preservation Department in a chartered bus that is less than half full. Many Americans don’t know that an agrarian civilization was...
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Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland of...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Woman at Standing Rock
We arrive when midnight witches one day into another. We set up camp in the first empty spot and I don’t know where my family is. Kateri, Wayne, and I drove six hours to be here.We carry sleep to our...
View ArticleNative Poetry
Over at the North American Review, Heid E. Erdrich writes about the forthcoming New Poets of Native Nations. The collection, which will be published by Graywolf Press in 2018, will feature works from...
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From the Editors: Election 2016
I’ve asked our editorial team to share their thoughts with you on tomorrow’s election. To stay silent when we have a platform to speak out felt wrong. This election is critical. We are code-red. We...
View ArticleNative Writers to the Front
Over at Electric Literature, Nicole Reber interviews Elissa Washuta about her experience as a Native writer navigating indifferent and tokenizing responses to her work, and the hybrid nature of her own...
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Dakota Access Pipeline: A Rumpus Roundup
Protecting the Water. Mni Wiconi. Water is Life.Over the last few weeks, thousands of Indigenous people, representing hundreds of tribes, have gathered together on the banks of the Cannonball River, on...
View ArticleThe Novel as a Character
At Lit Hub, an excerpt from a vivid, metaphor-rich conversation that appears in the spring issue of BOMB Magazine in which Christopher Sorrentino calls the novel an “impoverished count, living in a...
View ArticleLess Is Pottermore
Since the Harry Potter series ended, the Potter universe has continued to expand with tie-in books and lore published on the website Pottermore. However, Rowling’s magic-based historical revisionism...
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The Rumpus Review of The Revenant
“I ought to be God to you.”–John FitzgeraldIf you’ve watched the Discovery Channel in recent months you might have noticed a trend: Pretty much every show is about a few chums running around in the...
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The Rumpus Interview with Sharon Oard Warner
Sharon Oard Warner has never shied away from tackling complex social issues in her writing. Her first novel, Deep in the Heart, explored the heated debate around reproductive rights within a...
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