On Inheritance: Maureen Sun’s The Sisters K
By recasting this Slavophile opus as a critique of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy, with a grand sense of philosophical rigor, Sun models anti-imperial engagement with the Russian canon.
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Chasing the Afterlife: A Conversation with Susan L. Leary
What does it mean to live a life? What does it mean to live a good life?
“Simply tell the story”: A VOA Mini-interview with Nikkya Hargrove
...family relationships can and do change, and those we feel “kin” to can also change.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by juj e lepe
Never mind strange dogs / down murder-hornet ridge, water / nipping at your bones; I will find you
Doing the Work of Remembering and Naming: A Conversation with Keiko Lane
I thought I was writing an essay, and then people kept showing up in my memory and talking and demanding to be included.
Please Please Please: Casey McQuiston’s The Pairing
Few romance novels hit such emotional and sensual highs with the leads physically apart; fewer still so elegantly capture the fluid contours of gender and desire.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy Moms
It’s nice of the Baptists to let us use this space––though of course, we know they’re trying to convert us. We’re okay with that. It feels good to be wooed.
Excavating Land, One Ancestor at a Time: A Conversation with Susan A. Brewer
The people keeping the records tend to have authority, and they tend to have an agenda, so they’re going to portray things in a way that fits their agenda.
What to Read When You Want to Get Lost
I wanted my novel, Lesser Ruins, to feel at ease getting lost, to relish in its obsessions and procrastinations, from long descriptions of electronic music to digressions about coffee to the strange, suffocating world of academia.