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Gulf War

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I Dated Bad Men Till a Bad Man Became President

  • Sarah Sweeney
  • February 13, 2018
Their dishonesty and danger was easier to look past then. The world had not yet shifted. But then it did, and I woke up.
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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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The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt

  • Tracy O'Neill
  • August 10, 2016
Annie DeWitt discusses her debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City, the 90s, and the brutality of nature.
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The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack

  • Molly Antopol
  • March 23, 2015
Skip Horack talks about his new novel, The Other Joseph, blending research with fiction, and living with the “curse of the fiction writer.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tom Sleigh

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 20, 2015
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tom Sleigh about his new book, Station Zed,, how reportage and the surreal can combine inside a poem, and secularizing the mysteries of death, redemption, and resurrection.
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Survivors

  • Lenika Cruz
  • September 24, 2014
The history of the whole world can be told as the stories of conquerors and the conquered—the former consumed with thoughts of destiny and tyranny, the latter knowing only the persistence of time and the pure grit of bodies.
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Albums of Our Lives: Moxy Früvous’s Bargainville

  • Lauren Eggert-Crowe
  • October 25, 2013
What did I turn to when I needed to channel my frustration with this corporatized Republican state against which I could only kick my small angry feet? The music of Gen-Xers from another country.
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