Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Padma Viswanathan
Is it that she is an immigrant to the US and was an immigrant to Canada before that, a brown woman on both sides of the border, viewed with suspicion that sometimes gets explicit?
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Padma Viswanathan
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Padma Viswanathan's most recent novel is The Ever After of Ashwin Rao. More at her website: WWW.PADMAVISWANATHAN.COM
The True American by Anand Giridharadas
The True American is an intellectually agile and incessantly compelling portrait of post-9/11 America—of what we are and of what we might become.
The Rumpus Interview with Ania Szado
Canadian writer Ania Szado discusses the influence of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and The Little Prince on her latest novel, Studio Saint-Ex, and developing characters based on personal insecurities.
The Rumpus Interview with Catherine Bush
Canadian novelist Catherine Bush discusses the powers—and lives—of accusation, the close relationship between work and character, and the role of the social circus, at home and in the developing world.
The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Cody Epstein
Novelist Jennifer Cody Epstein discusses her new book, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, and explores representations of morality, how to address public acts of political violence, and the ramifications of war.
The Rumpus Interview with Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Icelandic poet, novelist, and playwright Kristín Ómarsdóttir discusses her 2004 novel, Children in Reindeer Woods, which was recently translated into English.
Adventures in the Narrative
Lawrence Weschler’s collection of essays, Uncanny Valley, compiles some his best essays with the same perspective that he brings to each essay – an impulse to find the subtle convergences…
The Unstable Identity of an Algerian in Paris
Leïla Marouane’s 2010 novel The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris layers identity upon identity as it unravels the story of an Algerian-born Parisian banker.
Philosopher or Dog?
Andrew O’Hagan’s playful novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his Friend, Marilyn Monroe follows one terrier around the mid-20th century as he pontificates on Plutrach,…
The Cost of Living
A new volume of stories by Mavis Gallant traces the writer’s development from early stories of bewilderment and disappointment to the sharp, incisive later work of a master.
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Rumpus Interview With Rebecca Solnit
To read one of [Solnit's] books is to slap your forehead and say, “How could I, and everyone else, have missed this?”
Getting Everyone All Better
If you only read one article on health care this year, consider making it the same one as everyone else: Atul Gawande’s “The Cost Conundrum.” Gawande is great on paradoxes,…