Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Who’s Your Daddy The RumpusSeptember 17, 2020 An exclusive look at the cover of Arisa White’s forthcoming collection, WHO’S YOUR DADDY. Read
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Read Rumpus Original Varied States of Breaking Grace RobersonAugust 5, 2020 This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reprint Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens” Natalie BakopoulosJuly 2, 2020 How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?Read
Read Rumpus Original My Father’s Guide to Field Dressing an Elk Janna ColemanJuly 1, 2020 Around here, we don’t waste meat, and we don’t waste life.Read
Read Film Politics Rumpus Original The Promise of Werfel’s Musa Dagh: Portraying Genocide in Fiction Aram MrjoianJune 30, 2020 How does a fictional account come to stand in for history?Read
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Read Features & Reviews Reviews When Background Becomes Foreground: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown Jessica FuJune 24, 2020 Chinatown comes to vivid life in Yu’s hands.Read
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