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Brazilian Poetry Takes a Weird Turn for the Normal
Brazil has a nearly two-hundred-year-old poetic history, during which various poets have fought to define Brazilian identity, criticize the injustices of capitalism, and catalog “the joys and miseries of being young in a military dictatorship.” Now that Brazil has become…
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Make/Work: A New Rumpus Podcast
We’re excited to announce Make/Work, a new Rumpus podcast hosted by Scott Pinkmountain.
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Do Authors Use Symbols on Purpose?
In 1963, a high-schooler named Bruce McAllister decided he would prove to his English teacher once and for all that the symbols she was asking students to find in books like The Scarlet Letter were not actually put there on purpose by…
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Rockwell and the Law of Opposites
In the New Yorker, Lee Siegel sheds light on the oft-seen contradiction between artists and their art in her review of Deborah Solomon’s biography “American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.” In contrast to his idealized paintings of…
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Black Quotations from Marion Berry to Natasha Trethewey
For Guernica, Lauren K. Alleyne interviews Retha Powers, editor of the new Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations, which collects quotes by a rainbow of black sources, from Zora Neale Hurston to NWA to ancient Egypt. It’s a really interesting glimpse at the necessity…
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Taking a Break from the Internet
We at the Rumpus love the Internet. We are, after all, a place to read, on the Internet (just check our Twitter bio). But sometimes it’s good to contemplate how exactly you’re using the Internet and why, as Matthew Gallaway…
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The Small Heart of Things by Julian Hoffman
Scott Onak reviews Julian Hoffman’s THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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On Reading “the Midcentury Misogynists”
In a piece flawlessly titled “Reading While Female: How to Deal With Misogynists and Male Masturbation,” four female writers talk to each other about how women in college try to make sense of the male-dominated literature they’re taking in. One…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news, everyone: snakes are totally winning the evolution game. It’s time to bring back Victorian-era slang. Here is an old chart of the world’s tallest mountains that forgot to include Everest in case that’s the sort of thing you like.…
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Silent Streets, Empty Runway
But in that instant, as I moved just behind her, she froze and pivoted, like a runway model, her hand gripped on her hip, and stared calmly into my face.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Leah Griesmann
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Leah Griesmann. Here’s an excerpt: For nearly a month Deuce did not speak with My-li. He saw in her stooped walk at work how it pained her, heard it in the high pitched…
