Columns
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An Unsentimental Look at the ’90s: Gina Tron’s Suspect
Even her bad decisions, like lashing out at her bullies, are ones that feel relatable, if things were just a little different.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Stories by Walker Rutter-Bowman
I could almost taste a wave, see the little crabs escape the surf. A woman screamed in a good way, for the good things.
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Our Bodies are Bodies and Our Bones Are Bones: A Conversation with Amanda Hawkins
How long would I cry if I just let it happen? How long would I need to mourn if I did not cut that mourning short?
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Saba Keramati
My heart sinks before I mean it to. / The disappointment I know is wrong.
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Echoes in the Gallery: Andy Young’s Museum of the Soon to Depart
…Young transforms these cities into an enigmatic museum, with galleries that reach back through time to the very essence of dust.
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The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola
While I am a poet who is concerned with place, imaginative nowheres are where I think a poem begins.
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ENOUGH: Our Father
“We believe that the real number—of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward—is in the thousands.”
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“It’d Be the Last Great Punk Song”: On ¡PÓNK! by Marcus Clayton
Punk is not safe, but neither is the world if you are Black or brown.
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Feral Feminisms in Noir: A Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
…Intuition and empathy are central methods of communication when we look to understand others and to put ourselves in others’ positions.
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Nothing New Under the Sun: The Russian Formalists’ Guide to Prose Craft
With a fixation on abstract novelty, our students call to us from a crowded space of so many like tales and so much pressure to spit out some shiny new thing.
