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How Do You Write a Palestinian Novel
As a young person, I absorbed this Janus as a particularly Palestinian predicament, one very much at the heart of my Palestinian novel. And yet, such a Janus lives in many of us—escape your past, you cannot escape your past;…
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Falling Scales
The longer she stayed in the water, the better the numbness felt. She dipped her head back. How easy it would be to slip in just a little bit further. Clothes swollen with silt and midges and snow fleas. Heart…
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Nothing is Too Small to Contain the World: A Conversation with David Naimon
Conversations on Writing does touch on how these big impossible questions can be found within the smallest choices we make as writers, within syntax, voice, point of view, and narrative. And the gestures toward a different world can begin with…
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Overnight Success
We grow extremely fertile. We are super wombs. We conjure orgasm on command. We menstruate painlessly and our blood is glitter and heals cuts and scabs.
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Rescheduled: The September Rumpus Book Club Selection: “The Odyssey” with Emily Wilson
Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The New York Times named Wilson’s translation as one of its 100 notable books…
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Like My Father
……….My father smiles when he’s coated in oil. Cars remind him there’s always something to be fixed. He chooses not to replace what he can resurrect.
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The Mexican Trojan Horse
The drug war has been told as an epic in which modern heroes—DEA agents, brave Mexican soldiers, even if only a few—have fought the barbarians, the Mexican narcos.
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Negotiating Contradictions on the Dance Floor: Power, Exclusion, and the Nightlife in Kyle Carrero Lopez’s “Party Line”
Subjugation (interpersonal or otherwise) is a recurring theme throughout the book. But for Carrero-Lopez, to merely state that it exists isn’t enough. Instead, the material conditions that allow people to jeopardize or determine the autonomy of others serve as centerpieces,…
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Love and Medicine
I was not always gentle with my body. I slept with older men, with sad men, with finance bros and community organizers. I liked the med students best, angry orthopedists-in-training and the fuckboys clawing their way to anesthesiology.
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“In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous”: A Conversation with John Green
Initially, I thought I was writing about what we exchange when we give aspects of our private lives to the public for attention, which is something that used to be a problem mostly for movie stars and now is a…
