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“All My Books are Love Stories”: A Conversation with Yiyun Li
The key to me is not to write from the outside. If you write a character from the outside, you tend to draw the outline of the character. You reach the limit very soon. You can have definitions and descriptions,…
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Nuance, Power, Antiquity and Cardi B: A Review of of Emily Wilson’s Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Emily Wilson’s engagement and accessibility is infectious. In a piece about translating The Odyssey, she deftly steers us through Homer interpretations ranging from Fagles to Alexander Pope, the latter of whom Wilson admires for his love of the satirical and…
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Rumpus Book Club Recordings
One of the key benefits of paid Rumpus membership is access to our book club recordings after the fact. Moving forward, we will post these monthly, but to catch up, here are the recordings to date. June 2026: Whistler by…
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Ted Lasso Is Playing the Wrong Sport
Who do you cheer for when Peter “Snakebite” Wright—whose wife spends two hours before every match painting the snake on the side of his mohawked head—takes on Simon “The Wizard” Whitlock, with his Gandalfian beard?
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Tonight! The October Rumpus Book Club: “American Hagwon” with Min Jin Lee
The October installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* is tonight at 7pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with New York Times best-selling author Min Jin Lee about her brand new book American Hagwon. You can register…
