Between the angular cuts of the typography, the searing red letterforms, and the torn wallpaper, the cover of Our Cut of Salt ...

It is somatosensory memory at work—the smell of dying leaves and lake water and Barbasol, of suddenly freezing air and pine ...

I feel both the passion and protective snobbery of a true fan when it comes to short stories. Like any devotee, I take pleasure in my sense of ownership, grumbling when I see a flub, giving a ...

**This short story won the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean Me and Val standing at the edge of the water, just above where Pagua River mouth open ...

You’re apologizing for the breakdown while you’re having it. Before you’ll let yourself say “I cannot fucking do this anymore,” you establish that you know complaining is gross, that other people have ...

Amina Washington is an African American and Afro-Caribbean emerging writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2026 Periplus Fellow and was named a finalist for the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Prize in ...

I first encountered Hannah Neeleman, the polarizing figure behind the social-media sensation Ballerina Farm, the way most people encounter Hannah Neeleman: accidentally. A few years ago, her name came ...

In January 2018, just a few weeks before Ursula K. Le Guin passed, David Naimon had received her final copyedits and notes in pencil for their upcoming book, Ursula K. Le. Guin: Conversations on ...

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 ...

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to ...

and here we are, inside on the couch. That’s why we live here. Every day is gorgeous and 60 is the new sexy stash.