Features & Reviews
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Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late ’80s and early ’90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?
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Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian
We’ve all had that feeling where we’ve felt unseen. I think that’s a big part of this book. Maybe what was taken away from us was attention.
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Permission to Write Her Story: A Conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
Each adoptee has experiences that make their story unique. It’s important to understand that adoption is not a one-size-fits-all kind of situation.
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Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón
Such multistoried, woven-together heritage justifies and perhaps even demands the necessity of different ways to tell an origin story.
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Against Aesthetic Beauty: Lauren Elkin’s Art Monsters
. . . Elkin revisits works and experiences new ones, generating dialogues between them and their artists.
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“I Was Watching and You Were Clear”: A Conversation with Carolyn Hays
I think every parent trying to protect their child wants to be the bulletproof vest. At the same time, we also know that we shouldn’t necessarily protect them wholly.
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Yokai and Kishōtenketsu: A Conversation with Jami Nakamura Lin
I feel like when you write a book like this, people just expect you to know so many things. What I wanted to get into the book was this idea of searching.
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In the Details: Don DeLillo’s Library of America volumes
In 1979, at the age of forty-two, the distinctly American writer Don DeLillo made a change that would have a profound impact on his work: he left the United States. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship that year —his first accolade after…
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Radical Empathy and the Power of Fiction: A Conversation with Shastri Akella
One of the two great powers of writing fiction is the capacity to invent, to activate the imagination and access realities unlike our own
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About The Rumpus’s Adoptee-Themed Month
Reclaiming National Adoption Awareness Month as National Adoptee Awareness Month by publishing essays about the adoptee experience, written by adoptees.
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Gender Interrogations in Contemporary Queer Poetics: Six New Poetry Collections
How is poetic form being adapted, altered, and reimagined in contemporary lesbian and queer poetry? Five new poetry collections by lesbian, queer, and trans poets attend keenly to gender and systems surrounding it.
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“I’m Not Grateful to Have Been Adopted, But I Am Thankful To Have Grown Up In A Wonderful Home”: A Conversation With Angela Tucker
By contextualizing my experience, I hoped to offer new dimensions to the conversation around adoption.