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A Donne for Our Times: on Deed by torrin a. greathouse

  • Kat Matson
  • June 27, 2025
Worlds cannot be built from scratch, though, and many of greathouse’s poems find building blocks in existing works. These uses go beyond mere reference and reveal new resonances in even the most familiar sources
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Freeland
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What to Read When You Want to Destabilize the Binaries Between Good and Bad

  • Leigh Sugar
  • June 27, 2025
Among the 14 “Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture” as outlined by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, are “Either/or Thinking,” “Fear of Open Conflict,” “Belief in One Right Way,” and “Perfectionism.”…
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The First Book: Daniel Tam-Claiborne

  • Daniel Tam-Claiborne
  • June 26, 2025
I began writing Transplants in earnest in 2019 during the last semester of my MFA program. I had the truly great fortune of working with Lauren Groff who, when given the option between helping me touch up my existing short stories for my graduate thesis or advising me on a new project nearly entirely from scratch, wisely nudged me toward the latter.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Red Zone

  • Jennifer Galvão
  • June 26, 2025
That night, when I confessed to never having used a tampon before, not having a mom around to explain it, Cami locked us both into a bathroom stall and showed me how.
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A Space of Her Own

  • Christina Cook
  • June 26, 2025
Marcia LeBeau’s debut collection, A Curious Hunger, is a powerful testament to the unabashed wholeness of womanhood—and an assertion that our culture, where power skews cis male, needs to make…
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On Exteriority: David Szalay’s “Flesh”

  • Nathan Blum
  • June 25, 2025
After a few more one-liners, it becomes clear István is living in pandemic-era England (he vapes now, etc.) and trying to log on to a Zoom meeting with his therapist
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Megan Pinto

  • Megan Pinto
  • June 25, 2025
The Doe Because of the rain, the meadowis empty. How quickly the trainvanishes this view. I press my ear to blank paper, hopingto hear you, waiting for a break in…
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Divorcing Dad Rock from Gender and Genre: An Interview with Niko Stratis

  • Elizabeth Teets
  • June 25, 2025
I've developed my own framework for what I want dad rock to be. To me, it is a genre that is about people. I'm trying to approach it with very loose terms to not give away all my secrets, but a genre where the person who is making the music is not telling you what to do but is imparting some knowledge they have learned based on mistakes that they themselves have made
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What to Read When Your Ex Takes the Dog

  • Kyle Casey Chu
  • June 20, 2025
Books helped me claw myself from bedrot. I dove into the page, and now have ten stories to thank for resurrecting me from my despondency. For helping me to feel again. 
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James Baldwin
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Finding Baldwin

  • Ifeanyichukwu Eze
  • June 17, 2025
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.
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Take A Risk and Stand at The Edge of a Cliff: A Conversation with Jen Michalski

  • Wendy J. Fox
  • June 16, 2025
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.
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The Rumpus Prize in Fiction, First Place: Aimee LaBrie

  • Aimee LaBrie
  • June 16, 2025
The first part went as expected: the countback with the anesthesiologist, the prepping of the surgical area, the instruments arranged just so.
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