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What is Freedom: Zoe Mendelson
Dear Yali Lou, The topic of self-seriousness has been on my mind. It’s a double-edged sword. A prison, a necessary tool, a tricky thing to know when to wield and when to avoid. Here I have gathered for you what…
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The Possibilities of Satire in a Post-Capitalist World: A Conversation with Courtney Maum
“ All my books are about making art under capitalism, it’s a subject that’s dear to me as I’m a writer and my husband is an independent filmmaker and we’re trying to, you know, make art but also bring groceries…
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The Great Flood
As if to feel for rain he turns his palms upward, while outside the streetlamps bloom like night flowers To be honest, I had notexpected such a request from him, at least: Tightly And so,I cross the thick string over…
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Penny’s Head
“Decomposing,” they said, slowly, trying it out under their breath. The word felt different than the ones before—which could be a byproduct of having only half a mouth now. Or, maybe, it was finally the right one. Their heart raced…
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A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying
I sometimes wonder if this very search to understand my family’s history, the context out of which I emerged, only feeds into this false sense of separateness. Perhaps it only doubles down on this “us vs. them” way of looking…
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“This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life” by Deborah Lutz
This Dark Night effectively refutes the lasting image of the Brontës as isolated sad girls, stuck in the sticks with their abusive reverend father, which originated with Elizabeth Gaskell’s now-classic hagiography of her close friend, Charlotte Brontë. Lutz sketches a…
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Penrose
La presión en el pecho asoma al final del segundo tramo. Rodilla arriba, pie sobre escalón, impulso y carga del propio peso contra la gravedad, y el peso del edema acumulado porque las válvulas se abren y la sangre se…
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What is Freedom: Jason Reynolds
To be free, for me, is to no longer consider the consequences of my body and skin and hair and tongue, not because of a refusal to bend, not as an act of defiance and courage, but because it has…
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A Month Without a Map
We plant gardens on the banks of trenches, tending muddy flowerbeds we may never see blossom. We load our babies into the car to drop them off at daycare on our way to work in a beach town, and never…
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Bird-of-Paradise
He imagines birds arriving in droves to bathe, drink, and preen. Their small beating bodies crowding this vanity he has made, sounds of their reverie like the soft plinks of coins dropped in fountains.
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Presentamos “El Alboroto”
Es un hecho que vivimos en un mundo en el que diariamente conviven diversas culturas e idiomas, aun así, desgraciadamente, ciertos grupos se rehúsan a aceptar esta realidad. Nosotros queremos animar y ser parte de ese intercambio. The Rumpus nació…
