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A Photographer’s Wife

Pre-pandemic, my husband was always meeting new women. These women worked as food and prop stylists and assistants to food and prop stylists on the sets where my husband was the photographer. The women...

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Re-Contextualizing Dolly Parton in Her Full Glory: Talking with Sarah Smarsh

In She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs, author Sarah Smarsh dissects the decades-long career of a universally beloved but oft misunderstood country icon. Originally...

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The Fine Line Between Nihilism and Hope: Talking with Ahmed Naji

Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian journalist, writer, and criminal. At least that’s what the Egyptian government thinks of him. Naji didn’t think of himself as a “Writer” with the capital “W” until 2016, when...

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Upending the Scene: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen

Like therapy or a bidet, everyone can benefit from a good short story collection. A collection can function as a literary multivitamin, each story serving a different purpose, fulfilling myriad needs...

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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney

In her debut memoir, The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs, Jennifer Berney tells an intimate story of queer family-building. The book weaves Berney’s...

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Melissa Febos about her new essay collection, Girlhood (Bloomsbury, March 2021), letting the book have its own life out in the world, learning to trust and be patient...

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Panic Mode: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld

For many, January 20, 2021 was a moment of collective relief. Four years of a worst-case-scenario presidency had drawn to an end, and we finally had a chance—if only for a few minutes—to grieve the...

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Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker

I have been told, lately, to take control of many things. Fertility testing companies have ordered me to take control of my reproductive lifespan. Skin care brands have instructed me to take control of...

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From the Archive: What It Is to Be Human: Talking with Ottessa Moshfegh

This was originally published at The Rumpus on July 30, 2018. During the month of June 2022, we’re highlighting some of our favorite work from The Rumpus archives to show readers how the magazine has...

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American Mothers are Screaming: A conversation with Jessica Grose

Jessica Grose has been reporting on parenting for over a decade. As an Opinion writer for The New York Times, she documented the experience of parenting during the pandemic—a crucial record-keeping in...

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