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Lesley Nneka Arimah’s Characters Muscle Their Way through Girlhood

In our current political climate with its rampant animosity towards immigrants, Arimah offers a humanizing portrait of both the Nigerian citizen and first generation young female immigrant.

Escaping Time with All Our Wrong Todays

Mastai takes the predictable stakes of time travel (erasing the future, changing the past) and heightens them.

Daddy’s Girl Sees Daddy’s Scars in The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

[Tinti] has cleverly illustrated the tender relationship between a father and his little girl, the respect a daughter has for her dad, and the lengths that both of them will travel to protect one another.

Han Yujoo, Wild Child of the South Korean Literary Scene

The Impossible Fairy Tale presents a dark and fraught conception of childhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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