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How Do You Write a Palestinian Novel
As a young person, I absorbed this Janus as a particularly Palestinian predicament, one very much at the heart of my Palestinian novel. And yet, such a Janus lives in many of us—escape your past, you cannot escape your past;…
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Falling Scales
The longer she stayed in the water, the better the numbness felt. She dipped her head back. How easy it would be to slip in just a little bit further. Clothes swollen with silt and midges and snow fleas. Heart…
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Nothing is Too Small to Contain the World: A Conversation with David Naimon
Conversations on Writing does touch on how these big impossible questions can be found within the smallest choices we make as writers, within syntax, voice, point of view, and narrative. And the gestures toward a different world can begin with…
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Overnight Success
We grow extremely fertile. We are super wombs. We conjure orgasm on command. We menstruate painlessly and our blood is glitter and heals cuts and scabs.
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Rescheduled: 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…
