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The Statue

  • Alina Stefanescu
  • December 2, 2021
The mother, too, is a monument. I am haunted by mine.
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My Kyiv

  • Dewaine Farria
  • May 4, 2020
It’s funny what ends up feeling like home.
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Keeping Yiddish Alive: A Conversation with Josh Lambert

  • Joe Eichner
  • January 24, 2020
Josh Lambert discusses the anthology HOW YIDDISH CHANGED AMERICA AND HOW AMERICA CHANGED YIDDISH.
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Writing Resistance: A Conversation with J. Kasper Kramer

  • Sarah Einstein
  • December 6, 2019
J. Kasper Kramer discusses her debut novel, THE STORY THAT CANNOT BE TOLD.
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Rice Cake Love

  • Breann Wong
  • December 5, 2019
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Some Poetry about Socialism”

  • J. Kasper Kramer
  • September 23, 2019
My stomach fluttered. My cheeks flushed. They never said no.
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Olzhas Suleimenov and the Power of Antinuclear Activism

  • A. Mauricio Ruiz
  • July 26, 2018
Suleimenov the nomad, the climber of high walls of adventure.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Blue Tears”

  • Karissa Chen
  • February 20, 2018
On certain nights, if I’m lucky, wisps of the shore begin to glow blue, an unearthly electric color, like someone in the sea has a flashlight and is shining it upward.
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Writing History

  • B.N. Harrison
  • January 1, 2018
I was pretty sure I could produce a manuscript superior to anything [this editor had] ever published before by letting my cat walk over my keyboard a few times.
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The Night Is Itself a Novel: Talking with Lidija Dimkovska

  • Jennifer Virškus
  • November 29, 2017
Lidija Dimkovska discusses A Spare Life, living through the break-up of Yugoslavia, her writing style, and where she now feels most at home.
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Fidel Castro: The Playboy Comandante

  • Abel Sierra Madero
  • November 24, 2017
The comandante produced ideological fantasies on a mass scale within the context of the Cold War which led to an exotic, sexy, and happy vision of Cuba.
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President of Smut

  • Marlena Williams
  • October 26, 2017
Our country has always been ruled by and for the privileged, but never has this glaring injustice in the system been made so shamelessly clear.
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