The Old Fetal Narrative
In the middle of September I received an email from my publisher with the ominous subject heading, “Fetal Trend.” He wrote that Ian McEwan’s just released novel Nutshell is narrated by a fetus. Oh, no,...
View ArticleThe Thread: Ways of Being Seen
You can conjure the picture in your mind if you try. The end of World War II. Parade in the street. A young sailor and a young nurse in an embrace, kissing. Around them, the parade, the confetti...
View ArticleThe World Is on Fire: Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Accept Schopenhauer’s view that the world is an idea—and in these days when everything feels in flux such a notion is perhaps easier to swallow—and what poets do takes on new importance. Rowan Ricardo...
View ArticleRumpus Original Fiction: Greener
Cha Cha uses both arms to wave me down outside the sliding glass doors at the airport. She’s been looking for me since we landed, while I ran to the bar and sucked down two mojitos, flirting with the...
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