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The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact

  • Joe Kapitan
  • April 21, 2021
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
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Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton

  • Donna Hemans
  • March 1, 2021
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
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A Poetics of Questions: The Bower by Connie Voisine

  • Kate O’Donoghue
  • February 5, 2021
To learn is perhaps Voisine’s primary goal in writing the poems in The Bower.
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Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times

  • C.M. Mesquita
  • November 11, 2020
Who “owns” the English language?
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You’re in the Hands of a Pro: The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot by Jack Driscoll

  • Emily Sernaker
  • September 27, 2017
The characters in this collection frequently daydream about time. Children and teens want to speed it up so life can start. Grown-ups ask time to slow, or rewind to get some of it back.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Jefferson St. Apartments

  • LB Johnston
  • March 25, 2017
Our perspectives bend and embellish, the run-down domicile is one year shitty and shameful, the next a sacred heaven.
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The Alienation of an Irish Abortion

  • Tasha Kerry Smith
  • December 21, 2016
Was it a dream? A nightmare? I felt like I’d been sold a lie. There was no husband or caring partner, no safe home or solid income. Just me, pregnant and alone, in an abortion clinic with my rapist.
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Those Who Serve

  • Patricia Mulcahy
  • November 16, 2016
To me, service is a transaction, and when you serve with real commitment, you might be on the receiving end of an appreciation that feels like a form of love.
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Fair Dancin’ Mad: A Scottish Town Fights Trump

  • Rebecca Donner
  • October 21, 2016
Councilor Ford pauses to catch his breath. “For goodness sakes do not elect [Trump]. It would be a catastrophe. Not only for the United States but for the world.”
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • August 5, 2016
Irish author Danielle McLaughlin didn’t start writing fiction until 2010, but in the years since she has amassed an impressive collection of writing awards, including the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short…
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The Rumpus Interview with Terese Svoboda

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • May 11, 2016
Poet Terese Svoboda talks about her biography of the socialist-anarchist firebrand and modernist poet Lola Ridge, Anything That Burns You, and remembers a time when the political was printed in newspapers.
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