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Lux Nightmare Is Not A Porn Star
Just a year and a half prior to finding Shalit’s email in my inbox, I was the proprietor of my very own porn site, That Strange Girl, which I’d started right before my senior year of college. It was a…
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The September Rumpus Book Club Selection: “The Odyssey” with Emily Wilson
Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The New York Times named Wilson’s translation as one of its 100 notable books…
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Black Single Moms Create Wonderful Worlds for Their Kids: A Conversation with Jamilah Lemieux
We have always had very high expectations of Black women. We have always had to do more, be more, give more than most groups of people in this country. So if we can talk openly and honestly about that, I…
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15 of the Best Book Covers of August 2026
Plus Rodrigo Corral on designing Life of M and branding Rachel Cusk’s books
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The Ballad of Gloria Vetrana
Some nights, when the feeling gets too strong, I have to get out of bed and walk out to the edge of the yard where I can see the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, their massive shapes like felled…
