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All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chen Chen

Chen Chen discusses his new collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, playing the game white supremacy has set up, and if God is trying and failing to be a cool dad.

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Family Is the Deepest Scar: Minae Mizumura’s Inheritance from Mother

With each word, I found myself thinking of my own grandmother’s journey, escaping war to America with no money, no education, and six children, the pain of this experience inevitably hardening the whole family.

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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Jessie Chaffee’s Florence in Ecstasy

He is a bird, he and that silver scull, a bird. Would I ever have that grace?

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Where the Past Meets the Present: Jessie Chaffee Discusses Florence in Ecstasy

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All of the Facts and None of the Truth: Fox Frazier-Foley’s Like Ash in the Air after Something Has Burned

While these women are physically gone, they gain agency after their deaths through Frazier-Foley’s poems.

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Blur, Cross, Pulverize, Confront, Remember: Talking with James Allen Hall

James Allen Hall on I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, unmaking boundaries, and book titles.

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What to Read When You Need More Anne Shirley in Your Life

Today, the new series Anne with an E premieres on Netflix. Here's a list of books for times when you need a strong female protagonist like Anne Shirley.

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Pressing Back against the Pressure: A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff

It’s about pressure. The pressure of one being enveloping another being, of one mother hugging her child, of a greater force subsuming and defining a lesser.

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The Eternal Hunt for Relevance: Doree Shafrir Discusses Startup

Doree Shafrir discusses her debut novel, Startup, the differences between journalism and fiction, and why she chose to tell this particular story.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #83: Lauren Grodstein

After writing several books (A Friend of the Family, The Explanation for Everything) from a male point of view, Lauren Grodstein’s new novel, Our Short History, is an intimate glimpse into…

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Science Fiction Can Change the World: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

With Borne VanderMeer presents a parable about modern life, in these shaky days of roughshod industrialism, civilizational collapse, and looming planetary catastrophe.

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