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J. M. Coetzee’s “Bread and Beans” Writing

I am fixated by this detail of the bread and beans because it strikes me that Coetzee’s prose might itself be described as “bread and beans” writing: short, declarative sentences, with a fairly simple vocabulary.

Against Everything and the Arbitrary Nature of Success in Trump’s America

Each essay is animated by the conviction Greif articulates in his preface: that many of the reasons for our most common habits are wrong.

Everyday Violence in Mariana Enríquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire

In Enríquez’s Argentina, superstitions and folk tales live side-by-side with stories of actual violence and horror.

Said Not Said by Fred Marchant

We have met the enemy on a raft of our own dead, and the enemy is us. Is it any wonder so many poets and others engaged with the arts are also devoted to exploring science?

The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach

Leah Damski reviews The Doorposts of Your House and On Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach.

the consequences of my body by Maged Zaher

“I am grateful/ For the poetics of walking the streets.” And we are grateful to be walking with Zaher through the country of this book.

An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey

Michalle Gould reviews An Arrangement of Skin by Anna Journey today in Rumpus Books.

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Chelsey Clammer reviews Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin today in Rumpus Books.

Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum by Wendy Sloan

Jenna Le reviews Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum by Wendy Sloan today in Rumpus Poetry.

Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga

Graham Oliver reviews Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga today in Rumpus Books.

The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager

Ilana Masad reviews The Lost Daughters Collective by Lindsey Drager today in Rumpus Books.

Transit by Rachel Cusk

Ariel Djanikian reviews Transit by Rachel Cusk today in Rumpus Books.

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