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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…
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You’d bury a metaphor
But it’s hard, isn’t it? You need to cope; you have a conscience. Never mind it being buried in that same mass grave you scroll past, never mind that there is no god that can stop this, that violent starts…
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The Influence of Aesthetic “Authorities” & Reconsidering White Paint: A Conversation with Wendy S. Walters
White paint’s widespread use manifests as a matter of habit for a lot of people, which was trickier to unpack. There are unconscious factors at play—such as fears about the past or anxieties about the future. I spend some time…
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Flash Fridays: Work Window
Outside, the grassy lovers were now shining with sweat and abandon for all to see and there was plenty to see and plenty of people taking it in from the 1,001 office windows near the green roof, people who would…
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Lesbian Simulators and an AI Thatcher: Notes from TIFF
Just as Danny Boyle settled in for the Q&A, an audience member screeched, “Never do that shit again.” The conversation promptly ended. It was the most succinct criticism I’d heard all festival.
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Girl on Girl: The Women Who Refuse to Look in the Mirror
Those women weaponize the same purity culture that the men they are criticizing exploit. A woman with sexual agency is typically frowned upon by other women, often their mothers, sisters, friends, or peers, looking for a way to disempower other…
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Réplicas a la distancia
Mis papás y mis amigos y mis familiares están vivos. La casa donde nací sigue en pie. ¿De qué me estoy quejando? Me quejo de un dolor agudo de un miembro fantasma que es un país del que me fui…
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Backslider
My mother always warned me about the danger of backsliding. Some Christians believe in eternal security, believe “once saved, always saved.” Not us. Salvation was slippery, could fly out of your hands like a bar of soap. I prayed constantly…
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Three Poems
Each push spells the walls transparent, portal of home now quartz & shoring in moonlight then sunlight & such a tenacity of stars Sky flies overhead as time refuses its own elapse
