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What to Read When

What to Read When You Want to Find Mystery in the Ordinary

…I find myself most excited about writing that is focused on the concrete facts of daily life.

We Are More

We Are More: Ghazal of my Childhood

I remember being told Onsi was a poor artist barely able to feed his family, and my mother, an admirer of his art and a lover of nature, bought all his paintings.

Contrast, Rumination, and Metamorphosis: Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster

As in her debut, Antigua heads off any feelings of confessional monotony by mixing her diary poems with an elegant variety of lesser confessional, more expositional poems.

Essays

An Itch to Scratch

I grew up speaking a different Kannada at home. In Bangalore, I have had to relearn the language all over again.

Reviews

Why a Happy Ending Matters: A Review of John Vercher’s Novels

To appreciate John Vercher’s complete oeuvre of fiction, we have to appreciate what has remained throughout his work and what has shifted.

Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Find Me in the Light

I can never figure out the right rhythm and I’m always off beat—interrupting at the wrong moment, letting the silence hang for far too long.

Interviews

I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate

I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and the pages.

Essays

Prince Edward Island

The gas station attendant looks at me and says, "My advice, get out of town." There’s no snark in his voice. He’s worried.

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Comics

Long-term Art Project

Fragments

On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs

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Essays

To Adopt a Grandparent

Home is a Word Unspoken

Pigs Rooting for Truffles

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Letters in the Mail from Authors!

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Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Casserole

Rumpus Original Fiction: The Sun Never Sets on the Sunrise Highway

Rumpus Original Fiction: Twinsies

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What to Read When

What to Read When You Can’t Catch a Break

What to Read When You’re Looking for Romance

What to Read When You’re a True Believer

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Poetry

Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning

Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress

National Poetry Month: Hala Alyan

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Columns

ENOUGH: The Last Beautiful Day

Funny Women: Advice for Midlife Lady Writers

We Are More: Istanbul

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Reviews

“Three Initiates”: On Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L

Little by Little: Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia

We Must All Transition: Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi

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Interviews

The First Book: Veena Dinavahi

The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem

The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams

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Letters in the mail (from authors)

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