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While I do see there is importance in recognizing identity, I also want there to be a broader field to go beyond the identity itself, the identities that were forced upon us, in addition to what we continue to reinforce and agree upon as identity.

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Rumpus Events

September Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

Our next Letters in the Mail come from author Mario Chard and Quinn Carver Johnson.

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Interviews

Maybe Home is the Thing We Carry: A Conversation with Janika Oza

. . . This is a story of a family trying to find their place in a world that is constantly shifting beneath them, and I wanted them and their relationships and emotions and memories at the center of this narrative.

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Nonbinary Thinking: Stephanie Burt’s We Are Mermaids

We’re reminded that the first creatures that crawled out of the ocean were fish that evolved to walk on land. What are we if not constantly evolving?

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Reviews

The Trap of Domesticity: Mieko Kanai’s Mild Vertigo

Between a stream-of-consciousness-inspired prose, image patterns, and consistent pivots of thought, Kanai establishes the most surprising thing about this novel: its ability to make the vertiginous hypnotic.

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Interviews

“A Mirror and a Window”: A Conversation with Jiordan Castle

I think the older we get, we change, but we still love what we love. We still have the same little shames and little happies and all these things that make us us from when we first started becoming whoever we were going to be.

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What to Read When

What to Read When It’s Women in Translation Month

Women In Translation month has grown since inaugurated in 2013 into an organized global movement that includes translators from all backgrounds and genders.

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Interviews

Writing the Emotional Stakes of the Mundane: A Conversation with Alexandra Chang

As a writer, I really like working with constraints and getting to play with different structures, voices, moods, and characters. The simple fact that short stories are short gives me all of that.

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Essays

When We Melt

Art makes things go together that don’t fit at all.

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Reviews

The Mind of a Female Killer: My Men by Victoria Kielland

But while Cather’s eponymous Antonia rises above rumor and gossip through resilience, optimism, and an irresistibly endearing authenticity, forging happiness on her own terms, the story of Kielland’s Belle is alternatively uncomfortable and haunting.

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