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The Canal
On a London bench, two strangers talk about desire and terror: “People wear masks. These masks, they do not even know they are wearing them.”It took Siddhartha Gautama forty-nine days under an ancient...
View ArticleLondon Isn’t the Only City That’s Burning
London is definitely a hot case right now. But once you start taking a look elsewhere, you’ll see that the UK is not the only country where riots are taking form.Student protests in Chile have been...
View ArticlePre-Olympic Pre-Emptive Strikes
London authorities are bent on making sure that the Olympics Games will proceed without a hitch.Their strategies include arresting people who they think may pose a threat to that smoothness, in...
View ArticleKeeping Moviegoers In Line
Gawker reports on a London movie theater’s new tactic to keep moviegoers well behaved. The Prince Charles theater offers free movies to those who agree to don a black leotard, covering their entire...
View ArticleWarsan Shire Named London’s First Young Poet Laureate
London’s first ever “young poet laureate” is Warsan Shire, a twenty-four-year-old “Kenyan-born Somali poet” from northwest London.What distinguishes a young poet laureate from a regular one? In...
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A Stabbing in Finsbury Park
F and I walked into Finsbury Park that day and saw most of the park cordoned off with police tape, but before we could say anything more than what the fuck, before I could feel anything more than the...
View ArticleClassic Books Hit the Streets
A public art project in London this summer aims to remind people of the joy that comes with reading books by decorating benches across the city with illustrations from classic literature. The...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Manuscript
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle left an original manuscript of a Sherlock Holmes story to his daughter, who in turn left it to the Nation of Scotland. Then the manuscript sat in a bank vault. Conan Doyle...
View ArticleWorthwhile Work
Dissatisfaction among the modern white-collar working class might stem from the fact that many jobs simply don’t feel necessary. Strike! Magazine has been advertising on the London Underground with...
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The Rumpus Interview with Greg Baxter
Greg Baxter is novelist that lives in New York—at least for the moment. He’s not a “New York novelist” by any means. In fact, none of his books, except for the occasional remembrance, are even set in...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Memphis-area Burke’s Book Store celebrated its 140th year of selling books. The current owners plan to use the milestone reintroduce the store, and that includes investing in a custom bicycle to make...
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Fusselman
As a lower-level employee in the publishing industry, I regularly took home four to five manuscripts a week—which meant that I inevitably skimmed the ones that didn’t immediately draw me in or strike...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Hong Kong is dominated by two kinds of bookstores—the independent shops specializing in political books and pornography banned by China and the shops secretly owned by Beijing’s communist government.A...
View ArticleWeekly Geekery
Email is evil…Which explains why Millennials like it so much. Probably.Speaking of Millennials, they get a fancy new, techy bookstore in London. So, that’s nice.Quitting Facebook makes you...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
On Tuesday, London-based journal The White Review dropped its third annual translation issue, which features a truly global range of voices from Israel to Indonesia, South Africa to Russia. Among them...
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The Rumpus Interview with Derek Ridgers
The Dark Carnival: Portraits From The Endless Night is the newest hardbound collection of black and white photographs by British photographer Derek Ridgers. What’s become his life’s work, somewhat by...
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The Rumpus Interview with Danielle Dutton
Danielle Dutton’s forthcoming novel Margaret the First dives into the story of Margaret Cavendish, an unconventional 17th century British Duchess. This work of historical fiction explores Margaret’s...
View ArticleThis Week in Posivibes: Sir Elton John
In a demonstration of why he embodies the very essence of posivibes, Sir Elton John gave a surprise concert for London commuters in the city’s St. Pancras Station. The performance marked the release of...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Essay: Veronica Dies in Jamaica
England, 2016. This is an essay about grief and love and space/time. I am the narrator. The main character is Veronica, my grandmother. Veronica is dead. November 2014. We’re in London, where it is...
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The Big Idea #12: John Freeman
I’m afraid to fly. Correction: I’m afraid to take off. Those seconds when the plane speeds down the runway and impossibly, unreasonably levitates into thin air terrify me. After that, I’m okay (okay,...
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