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Read Politics Rumpus Original They Prefer People to Die: On Trump, Borders, and Racism Gris MuñozJune 23, 2018 A good man doesn’t leave someone to die in the desert, and when he uses God’s name, he does it to bless, not to kill.Read
Read Poems Poetry Politics Rumpus Original Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Strawberry Field Yoojin Grace WuertzJune 22, 2018 To pick a strawberry, one must crouch.Read
Read Rumpus Original TORCH TORCH: Over the Borderline Harmony HazardOctober 19, 2017 I'm writing about the border through the eyes of children because the border is a problem of the imagination.Read
Other This Week in Short Fiction Claire BurgessJuly 15, 2016 It’s July, and the summer issues of literary magazines are rolling off both the physical and cyber presses, including Virginia Quarterly Review, which this week shared a story from its…Read