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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • December 23, 2020
Deborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS.
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They’re No Soldiers: Ryan McIlvain’s The Radicals

  • Kevin O'Kelly
  • May 16, 2018
The Radicals is the coming-of-age novel at its darkest: all the lessons are learned too late, if at all.
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Letters to Laura from a McDonald’s in Brooklyn

  • Becca Shaw Glaser
  • August 1, 2016
Tonight my loneliness is infinite and I could eat dinner or dance with my limbs wild because there is no gravity keeping me grounded.
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Roxane Gay on Resisting Numbness

  • Katie O'Brien
  • July 8, 2016
There is a new name to add to this list—Alton B. Sterling, 37, killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, La. It is a bitter reality that there will always…
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Outrage Laced With Vulnerability

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 9, 2014
When the grand juries failed to indict Darren Wilson or Daniel Pantaleo, they added to a lineage of injustices enacted against black people in America. Rumpus contributor Kaveh Akbar speaks…
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Staving-off-Despair Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 15, 2013
When there’s an injustice as great a man walking free after killing an unarmed teenager, at least we have writing to turn to. Our essays editor Roxane Gay has done…
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