Features & Reviews
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Nostalgia is a Lie: A Conversation with Liz Prato
It wasn’t underground at all. We’d just been looking the other way.
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Shining a Light on Sins of the South: A Review of Han VanderHart’s What Pecan Light
In What Pecan Light VanderHart seeks to address “the white ghosts / of the South” by bringing them to the light for all to see.
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She Wanted to Be the Hero: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua
The details that go unremarked are very powerful because it assumes this is the way things are. It’s not unusual. It’s just the way these people live.
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A History That Looks Forward: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
. . . there are still, and always have been, other ways [of living].
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Resurrection on a daily basis: Exploring The Hurting Kind with Ada Limón
How do we face the world and also love the world? That’s one of the questions of my life, maybe.
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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Lacy M. Johnson
The Other Side author Lacy M. Johnson talks about the experience of being kidnapped, overcoming trauma, and fighting the George Wills of the world.
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The Pressure and Pursuit of Desires: Talking Flash Fiction with Tommy Dean
I care deeply about these characters who decide to act and react to the conflicts and tensions around them even if they fail, especially when they fail.
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A Brutal Look at Black Girlhood: Bethany C. Morrow’s Cherish Farrah
Farrah’s not a “good” victim, but does that mean she’s not a victim? More importantly, is she allowed to be both a victim and an offender?
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Safety in Obscurity: An Interview with Jade Lascelles
Conversation and curiosity are essential to keeping momentum in this journey of resistance
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The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses: The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Fay
Not all of us are going to heal well.
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Quiet Revolutions: Yanyi’s Dream of the Divided Field
The speaker leaps—across the vastness of the divided field, graced with old bodies, discarded relationships—and lands.
