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2017
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HORN! REVIEWS: Strangers in Their Own Land
What makes outdoorsy Cajuns tolerate oil companies poisoning their land? The short answer: white identity politics.
Reclamation and Redemption: Villain Songs by Tammy Robacker
Robacker's language, steeped in religion and myth, creates an avenue for her own salvation while invoking a timelessness that gives voice to all whose song has been suppressed.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good morning, if you haven’t read Buzzfeed’s Brietbart expose you really should! Meanwhile, in Seattle, The Stranger infiltrates a white nationalist convention. Now that we have out of the way…
The Woman Behind the Curtain Pulling the Levers: Talking with Zinzi Clemmons
Zinzi Clemmons on What We Lose, representations of blackness, and life's influences on writing.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #104: sam sax
I could write a bullet list of sam’s sax’s recent accomplishments, but the wiser thing would be to advise you to pick up his newly released book MADNESS.
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Really important: DINOSAUR BRAINS. Even the anti-leak memos are leaking. NYC’s mice are evolving. You know what is great? The Iranian village of Masuleh is great. Taft’s ghost (the ghost…
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Hala Alyan
Nothing’s Freudian anymore. A cigar’s a cigar. I want to love something. / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don’t tell.
Black Ops for Jesus
Ruby knew this story and what it said about Mom's threshold for domestic abuse, perhaps better than anyone else since her driveway was practically adjoined to our own. She called anyway.