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Essays

Finding Baldwin

The books are on the floor, side by side. I begin to pick them up one by one. Lying beneath two old books is this one. The author’s name screams in white on a red strip at the top of the front cover.

Interviews

Take A Risk and Stand at The Edge of a Cliff: A Conversation with Jen Michalski

In her newest novel, All This Can Be True (Keylight Books, 2025), Michalski makes readers want to break out the black eyeliner and catch a show headlining (the excellently named) Clit Girls.

Fiction

The Rumpus Prize in Fiction, First Place: Aimee LaBrie

The first part went as expected: the countback with the anesthesiologist, the prepping of the surgical area, the instruments arranged just so.

We Are More

We Are More: Crossing at Allenby

While deception had always been a feature of warfare, the emergence of radio communication, ciphers, and submarines created a new theater for subterfuge in the ‘Great War.’

What to Read When

What to Read When Life is in Chaos

How Books Can Be a Framework When Everything Else Feels Like It’s Falling Apart

Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Ronny James

“What is that?” your mother said, taking another drag from her cigarette.

An alien observes the little H-shaped space station orbiting an increasingly dilapidated earth and wonders, What are these humans up to? “Why do they go nowhere but round and round?” it asks, proverbially. It’s a good question. One that the astronauts on the space station often wonder…

Funny Women

Funny Women: A Notice for Library Patrons

Questions? Comments? Too bad.

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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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