Ann van Buren
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The Rumpus Interview with André Alexis
André Alexis discusses his latest book The Hidden Keys, puzzles, chance, divinity, and the Toronto literary community.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #54: Jade Chang on The Wangs vs. the World
With a mix of humor, agility, and insight, Jade Chang’s debut novel, The Wangs vs. the World (HMH Books, October 2016), tells a fresh immigrant story. Charles Wang has left his native homeland to become a successful businessman in America.…
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The Rumpus Interview With Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra discusses his latest book, Multiple Choice, inspired by the Chilean exam administered to students seeking college admission
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The Rumpus Interview with Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar discusses Singaporean poetry in the last fifty years, Hindu mythology, translation, and his complicated relationship to his heritage.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks mocks the electoral process in his illustrated narrative, “God Is Dead: Campaign Coverage.” Then, in the Saturday Essay, Kade Walker remembers her grandmother, a private woman of Jamaican descent who is too proud to tell her family she…
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Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by Martín Espada
Ann van Buren reviews Martín Espada’s Vivas to Those Who Have Failed today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Prodigal, New and Selected Poems: 1976-2014 by Linda Gregerson
Ann van Buren reviews Linda Gregerson’s Prodigal, New and Selected Poems: 1976-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Illocality by Joseph Massey
Ann van Buren reviews Joseph Massey’s Illocality today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Shirt in Heaven by Jean Valentine
Ann van Buren reviews Jean Valentine’s Shirt in Heaven today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Sandie Friedman uses classic works of Holocaust literature to put her everyday stresses into perspective. Friedman’s early studies of feminism and time abroad in Dresden get her thinking about identity politics, particularly her own Jewish…
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A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 by Marilyn Hacker
Ann van Buren reviews Marilyn Hacker’s A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 today in Rumpus Poetry.
