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Swinging Modern Sounds #81: On Cultural Preservation

The Lost Boys had their moment in the media, but these people, these survivors, not boys at all and not lost now either, are still here, living lives, growing and changing and thinking and reflecting.

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On Speaking Plainly: A Conversation with Rajith Savanadasa

Rajith Savanadasa discusses his debut novel, Ruins, writing across oceans, and the chance encounter with refugees that led to the story at the heart of his novel.

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All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #78: Conceived as a Playlist

Shadowbahn [...] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.

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TORCH: Growing Season

I ask Hussein if he’s proud of the work he’s doing. He says that he is. We stop talking. For a moment, the market feels like peace.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #67: Anuradha Roy

A tranquil beach town named Jarmuli is the setting of Anuradha Roy’s third novel, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and made the longlist…

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A Crown for Gumecindo by Laurie Ann Guerrero

Diego Báez reviews Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo today in Rumpus Poetry.

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The Night Wash Jones Won

Eighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for…

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The Rumpus Review of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation

Parker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.

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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Quentin James

What the hell do I have to lose in this country? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Pain Scale Treaties

Perched on the shoulders of generational trauma sit these two theses: suffering begets cruelty begets suffering begets cruelty, and pain is empathy’s catalyst.

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The Rumpus Interview with Ben H. Winters

Ben H. Winters discusses his new novel Underground Airlines about an America where the Civil War never took place, writing speculative fiction, and modern racism.

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