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Before

  • Danielle Cadena Deulen and Shara Lessley
  • October 28, 2021
The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.
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When the Healing Place Exploded

  • Zeina Hashem Beck
  • September 1, 2020
Clothes, plants, and broken aluminum doors on balconies—all was inside out.
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Sophia Hanson Wants to Believe

  • Samantha Edmonds
  • March 5, 2019
Don’t try to make human what you are not willing to regard as human.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Of Birds Alit in Trees

  • Hala Alyan
  • April 11, 2018
Her name is Selvakumari, but the name catches like a vine in the family’s mouth, comes out bungled and limp. They call her Sally.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 3, 2018
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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TORCH: An Alien, Ineligible for Participation

  • Agri Ismaïl
  • August 14, 2017
That a bumbling demagogue would be able to take this institutional racism and weaponize it is, then, not really a surprise. The seeds for this hate were planted a long time ago.
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Home Is Here

  • Katy Hershberger
  • July 17, 2017
There is no singular Muslim story, no definitive identity for the entire religion. [...] Here, four women discuss what it's like to be a minority in America in 2017, post-9/11 and post-Trump.
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Reading across Cultures: A Conversation with Ratika Kapur

  • Catherine Cusick
  • May 1, 2017
Ratika Kapur discusses her latest book, The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma, the disappointing romance of affairs, and how people carry on after doing the unthinkable.
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Escaping Global Slavery, Almost

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 9, 2014
Njong Emmanuel Tohnain, imprisoned in a Chinese factory that produced shopping bags for Saks Fifth Avenue, wrote notes (some in English and others in French) inside five bags pleading for…
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Complicit with Everything

  • Darcie Dennigan
  • June 14, 2010
A metaphorical review of Tony Hoagland’s Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, in which Johnny Rocket, Britney Spears, and the Saudi Monarchy play a crucial role in American poetry.
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • February 2, 2010
Why yes, I DO like pictures of Dubai. Pain Pack let’s you experience other’s emotional pain. Photographing e-waste. The ultimate graphic novel (in six panels). Blue whales voices dropping. What…
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Politics Sunday

  • Seth Fischer
  • January 10, 2010
It’s Sunday, so as always, the Rumpus has links to political stories that aim to do more than make you angry at people you already disagree with. At Guernica, “Where…
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