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The Emperor’s Children
Joanna Smith Rakoff’s debut novel follows a group of friends through the trials and triumphs of post-college life in New York.“With their shining hair and bright, clear eyes, they, all of them, were...
View ArticleThree Ways of Looking at Sex and the City
In this week’s New Yorker, TV critic Emily Nussbaum grapples with the cultural legacy of Sex and the City:High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in...
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The Rumpus Interview with Isaac Oliver
Isaac Oliver is the author of Intimacy Idiot, a debut collection of essays about dating, living, working, and being single in NYC. Interspersed throughout the book are recipes, wry poems, and subway...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Across the Divide
Long before more modernized versions of sisterhood were showcased on HBO television shows such as Sex and the City and Girls, there was the 1988 film Beaches. When I was a teenager I used to watch it...
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The Last Book I Loved: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York
When I was a teenager, I slid a yellowing paperback off my mother’s shelf, read it in one sitting, and have carried it around with me like a talisman ever since. The book was Sheila Levine is Dead and...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Unrecognized Brownie, Circa 1978
When Elizabeth stopped returning my phone calls I was crushed. Despite the fact that we were both in our forties, I felt like I was thirteen and she was one of the popular girls. As far as I could...
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Concubines and Expat Husbands: Catching Up with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s latest novel, Sarong Party Girls, is written entirely in Singlish, a patois any English speaker can understand no matter how drunk she is. This comes in handy, because reading SPG...
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Playing Whack-a-Mole: Talking with Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie Pietrzyk’s newest novel, Silver Girl, looks with keen insight at female friendship and one young woman’s desire to rewrite herself when she leaves home for college. Like her previous book, This...
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