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Both Aggressor and Victim: Adèle by Leïla Slimani

  • Lakshmi Mitra
  • October 16, 2019
Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
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A Box Full of Darkness: Talking with Adrienne Brodeur

  • Liz Button
  • October 11, 2019
Adrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Softest Part

  • Chelsey Grasso
  • July 31, 2019
We sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
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Be Like the Woman

  • Alex Behr
  • February 28, 2019
And this is all like. The cloud is going around me.
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My Dream about Loving White

  • Erica Dawson
  • February 14, 2019
My blackness, like my gender, was a sin.
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Life after Death: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley

  • Sarah Boon
  • January 14, 2019
Tessa Hadley discusses her newest novel, LATE IN THE DAY.
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The Attic

  • Melissa Matthewson
  • January 2, 2019
The physical space reflects the self’s lingering.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Jill Sobule’s Favorite Spy Cars

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • December 13, 2018
I wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Beginnings

  • Shelly Oria
  • November 28, 2018
It is often a curse, this imagination of mine. Life pales in comparison.
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The Cuddle Affair

  • Brandon Hicks
  • November 25, 2018
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Mom Vagina

  • Maggie Kim
  • May 7, 2018
When the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Whole World Is Desert

  • Lori Sambol Brody
  • October 11, 2017
This is what I want him to think of me. The girl poised to surf a wave under the heaviness of the full moon, the ocean around her radiant with light.
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