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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…
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Dinner Party at the End of the World
At the dinner party table, I looked toward my friend. She had also turned to her phone, where an endless compilation of rare Labubu unboxings played on the screen. I resisted the urge to tell her I hold a conspiracy…
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Literature as Linguistic Event: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
In all of my books, including Ply, I have paragraphs where time is suspended because there are no conjugated verbs—only infinitives and participles. I try to do it unobtrusively. If you don’t notice, that’s mission accomplished. You don’t have to…
