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...moreMeg Waite Clayton discusses her new novel, THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS.
...moreYanara Friedland discusses her book-length essay GROUNDSWELL.
...moreIt was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
...moreAuthor Mariana Oliver and translator Julia Sanches discuss MIGRATORY BIRDS.
...moreLauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
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...moreThe survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
...moreMarianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
...moreSzczepan Twardoch discusses his novel, THE KING OF WARSAW.
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...more“I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”
...moreSven Ratzke discusses his new show, WHERE ARE WE NOW.
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...moreAmy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
...moreAli Fitzgerald discusses her new graphic memoir, DRAWN TO BERLIN.
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...morePoet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
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...moreAura Xilonen discusses her novel, Gringo Champion, the realities of immigration, translating texts, and her love of cinema.
...morePoet Erik Kennedy discusses literary community and his formative years as a young writer in New Jersey, and shares two new prose poems.
...moreHarry Potter reduces prejudice towards immigrants. Why facts don’t change your mind. Kafka (unsurprisingly?) had insomnia. A new clue in the great German crime drama of 1694. Hands-free typing with your brain: now a thing.
...moreSaleem Haddad discusses his debut novel Guapa, the Orlando shootings, the importance of queer spaces, and Arab literature.
...moreRachel Hall discusses her debut collection Heirlooms, her mother’s experience growing up in a French Jewish family during World War II, and crossing genre borders in her writing.
...moreAfter four years of ceaseless bombing and brutality, the security of life itself has been reduced in Aleppo to horror, terror, and scarcity of basic human resources.
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club chats with Saša Stanišić about his novel Before the Feast, the challenge of writing a plural narrator, working with a translator, and book tours in Germany.
...moreWhat’s interesting, of course, is how modern life could easily be seen in the opposite way—as an ever-expanding domain of individuality and self-expression.
...moreCole Swensen, author of fifteen collections of poetry, discusses her work, walking, and her recent travels.
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