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Every Separation Is a Link: A Conversation with Yanara Friedland

  • Selah Saterstrom
  • October 15, 2021
Yanara Friedland discusses her book-length essay GROUNDSWELL.
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Let Go the Reins: Talking with H. S. Cross

  • Jessie Chaffee
  • August 30, 2019
H. S. Cross discusses her new novel, GRIEVOUS.
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The Evolution of Present-Day Greece: Talking with Nanos Valaoritis

  • Maria Espinosa
  • August 3, 2018
Poet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Darryl Pinckney

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • May 7, 2016
If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away. Ask them to trust you with the truth.
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The Rumpus Interview with Miroslav Penkov

  • Christine Pivovar
  • April 15, 2016
Miroslav Penkov discusses his debut novel, Stork Mountain, Balkan history, and the difficulties and rewards of being a bilingual writer.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thoughts on My Ancestry.com DNA Results

  • Tyrese L. Coleman
  • March 26, 2016
There were chains. History books always describe the chains.
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I Hear the Place That Can’t Be Named

  • Wendy Willis
  • February 2, 2016
It is remembering and loving anyway—not forgetting—that binds us even if the recollections are absurd, undignified, cruel, or humiliating.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Greater Than Themselves

  • Stephen Dau
  • October 11, 2015
Stephen Dau writes from Brussels on the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, and how average citizens are stepping up to meet the needs that the government cannot.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive

  • Sandie Friedman
  • July 18, 2015
Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.
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The Weirdest Costumes You’ve Ever Seen

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 23, 2013
Switzerland: country of chocolate, chalets, and…a traditional costume of a freaky, faceless rope man, with bells attached in random places? French photographer Charles Fréger traveled Europe, taking pictures of the…
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“Fear and Anxiety…Link All of Us Across the Centuries”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 12, 2013
An excerpt from Joel F. Harrington’s book The Faithful Executioners is a featured Longreads Members Pick and well worth a few minutes of your time. Starting with a creative nonfictional account…
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